Jesus said to the leper, "Be clean," (Matthew 8:3) and reached out His hand and touched him, and immediately his leprosy was cleansed. In like manner the woman, and multitudes of others, touched Him, and were healed.
Does this teach us that we must all expect instantaneous healing, and must utterly reject all "means"? By no means, any more than the turning of water into wine, and the feeding of the 5,000 teach us that we are to expect our wine to be provided for us from the tap, and bread to grow out of the cupboard; and that we are not to cultivate fruit trees or till the earth and raise corn.
They show us that in the growth of grapes and in the ripened grain we are to recognize the Lord; so the miracles of healing are to teach us that it is by coming into touch with the Lord's life that we get healing, and that we are to use whatever means will bring us into communion with that life.--Present Truth, January 22, 1903--Timeline: IV-8 (The First Leper)--Matthew 8:3.