Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 8:21–22 NKJV

For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?

Does the LORD have our attention yet?

We experience one crisis after another.

Each crisis is like another blast on the watchman's trumpet warning us of impending doom and calling us back to God.

We have ignored God’s call and delay our return.

God is trying to wake us up. He is trying to get our attention so that we might turn to Him and be saved.

Are you awake? Has God gotten your attention? Do you want to be saved?

People are Hurting

The pain is real.

Pain comes in many varieties—physical, mental, emotional, marital, relational, financial, spiritual, and many more.

Pain is God’s built-in alarm system that tells us something is wrong.

Is there pain in your life? Are you hurting? Do you want to be free from pain?

Sin causes Pain

We are hurting due to the sin of Adam, our own sin, and the sin of others.

Sin causes pain because sin has built-in consequences.

We sow our wild oats and then are surprised when harvest time arrives.

Galatians 6:7–8 NKJV

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

Pain causes the prodigals to stagger, wake up, and yearn to return home.

God has fixed a fix to fix our nation, our churches, our families, and our lives. Don’t try to stop the fix the fix that God fixed.

Pride Blinds Us to the Problem and the Cure

Pride refuses to admit wrong.

Pride seeks to hide our sin and weakness.

Pride shifts the blame to God and others.

Pride seeks relief in its own way and on its own terms.

Is pride preventing you from being free?

Is it time to turn to God?

In Search of a Cure

The answer for sin and sin’s consequences is beyond us.

We are each dying from the virus of sin.

We are each hurting due to the consequences of sin.

Jeremiah asks, “Is there no balm in Gilead?”

Is there no cure for the sickness of sin?

Is there no cure that can relieve the pain caused by sin?

Is there no antidote for the poison of sin?

The Cure and the Physician

There is a cure—the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Acts 16:30–31 NKJV

And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 3:16 NKJV

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

There is a Physician—the Lord Jesus Christ.

Mark 2:16–17 NKJV

And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Will you be Saved?

Will you come to Jesus as your Great Physician?

Will you believe and accept the free cure of salvation through faith?

Isaiah 55:6–7 NKJV

Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.

Matthew 11:28–29 NKJV

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

2 Corinthians 6:1–2 NKJV

We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

There is a balm that can heal. There is a Physician who can save.

Will you come to Jesus so that you might be saved?

Will you be saved TODAY?