Receiving Healing through the Atonement (2): The Waters of Marah

The foundation for our faith to receive our healing is the very same foundation as for receiving our forgiveness – the Atonement of Christ. Because Jesus died for all of our sins, therefore forgiveness is available to all of us. In the same way, Jesus died for all our sicknesses, so healing is available for all of us (Psalm 103:1-3, Isaiah 53:4-6, Matthew 8:16-17, 1Peter 2:24). Jesus took the CURSE of SICKNESS for us on the Cross, so that the BLESSING of HEALING might be released to us in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:13-14). Healing is a covenant benefit that belongs to us in Christ. Knowing that healing is in the Atonement settles the issue of God’s will to heal, and so provides a firm foundation of faith for you to receive your healing, as faith begins when the will of God is known. One of the greatest proofs that Healing is in the Atonement is in Exodus 15:22-26, when God revealed His Covenant Name, His unchanging nature: Jehovah Rophe (the Lord is our Healer), at the Waters of Marah. Exodus 15 gives one of the great pictures of healing in the Atonement: (1) God reveals WHO He is – He is our Healer, (2) He also reveals HOW He heals us – through a TREE (a picture of the Cross). "Himself bore our SINS in His own body on the TREE - by whose stripes you were HEALED" (1Peter 2:24). God demonstrated He is our Healer, by healing all of Israel from sickness through a TREE. The bitter waters of Marah represent the bitter waters of humanity because of sin. The waters of the human heart and body have been made bitter (SICK) and need healing. God’s remedy for this sickness was a divinely ordained TREE (a picture of Christ on the Cross), which was cast into the bitter waters (Christ was sent into the waters of humanity), and it made those waters sweet. The TREE soaked up all the bitterness in the waters and released sweetness. Likewise JESUS on the Cross took on Himself all the bitterness (sins and sicknesses) of humanity, and released the sweetness of healing to us. When you receive the atoning work of the Cross by faith into the bitter waters of your heart and body, then your bitterness and sickness is taken away by the Cross, and it releases to you the sweetness of healing. SEE Jesus and RECEIVE your healing. Receive the TREE (Christ’s atoning work) into the bitter waters of your heart and body. Let Jesus soak up your sickness of soul and body and let Him release His sweet healing power into you. Receive His words, as He says to you: "I am the LORD your HEALER."