August Presidency Message

Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?

Of all the miracles of Jesus recorded in the NT, ¾ of them are described as healings!  That really makes you think.  Christ came to fix what is broken.  His heart was drawn out over and over again to bring the joy of health and wholeness to many of the sickly lambs of His fold.  Even with His knowledge of the schooling that comes through suffering, He sought to ease pain.  In His infinite mercy, He righted the apparent wrongs of nature, smoothed festered flesh, cooled the fevered brow, bade the parting spirit to return, and restored the deceased to the arms of sorrowing loved ones.  Christ is the source of all healing…and the one who bestows wholeness.

Robert D Hales has said:  “Our Savior knows the heart of each of us.  He knows the pains of our hearts.  If we seek the truth, develop faith in Him, and if necessary, sincerely repent, we will receive a spiritual change of heart which only comes from our Savior.  Our hearts will become new again.”  Healing can be physical or spiritual, but wholeness is both.

Truly we can be given a new and healed heart as we earnestly turn to the Lord.  And, miraculously, even if the source of physical pain does not change or go away, our hearts can heal and we can feel the Lords love.

We are all in need of being made whole.  We can be cured, but still not be healed of bitterness in our souls, or an innumerable hosts of things.  But we can also be healed of heart, while still enduring the trials of the body.  It is Christ who gives us wholeness.  We will all receive it eventually, and many in mortality.  We must be willing to seek the Lord’s will for healing in our lives.  -Tracy Kleinhenz