An oft cited verse with regards to healing is by his stripes we are healed from Isaiah Chapter 53. Healing is one of the gifts described throughout the Bible, the gospels and the history of the church.

In just focusing on this one verse, how can we meditate on its meaning?

To be in the need of healing, especially one that feels and seems not guaranteed, elusive and a little bit of a long shot, the feeling is one of being burdened and to a degree trapped with in the confines of the illness.

Yet in looking at this particular scripture, the meaning seems to be that the brunt of all this was taken up by Jesus. Was there, symbolically speaking, additional stripes for us in the future or did these stripes take care of all healing including into the far future and present days?

The whole issue of divine healing, even for future people and future times, was shifted right into that moment, experienced by Jesus. Those within the throes and burden of needing healing, really shouldn’t within prayer, meditation, and their own seeking accentuate that burden by further trying to “ feel the pain”, or accelerate their efforts to where they are praying to the maximum extent and feel that extra effort is “ extra points” towards healing.

It is probably more important to get a more meditative understanding of the situation.

This scripture has to be what it is, and just what it is saying is the reality.

Those is the far future from the event of this scripture, which would include those of us now, who are in need of healing, need to shift the meditation back to that moment of time where Jesus took on the burden of healing, and that those stripes were also future tense.

There really isn’t something new, or something that is additional, as that reigning moment of healing was then. Jesus bore the brunt, took on the burden then. There is no call to taking on the burden now, or even to participate in taking on the burden additionally, following Jesus example and adding to it. This was not an example to be followed, but a covenant of healing within that supreme moment of healing.

By trying to take on any of the burden of burden now, in the manner of healing, in the manner of striving, in the manner of carrying or weighing in, doesn’t add and indeed tries to subtract from the totality of that moment where Jesus took on the full brunt of this. There can be no additional fortification towards healing that can actually be found in terms of the spiritual walk.

With regards to the gift of healing, no advancements can be made, no more fights can be fought, nothing can be done either now or in the future, that can change the totality of that “ moment” where by his stripes you are healed.

This is not to say that medical science, will not or should not advance in treating illnesses and that God does not work through doctors and science. But we are talking about seeking and obtaining supernatural healing, healing through prayer and the ministry of the church and it ministers and doctors could also be considered ministers of healing.

With regards to healing from the Spirit of the Lord, the matter is indeed settled and you can’t obtain this gift by taking on any burden on your own. Even bargaining is not the correct path. Telling the Lord, if you heal me, I’ll take on in some small way the burden of the poor, a burden for interceding or a burden for anything is not the correct approach and the shift has to be, that the healing is the Lord’s burden and the Lord’s burden alone as by his stripes.

The healing includes taking on nothing additionally on your part. It is not your cross to carry. The thing to do is meditate upon, think upon and more fully understand and visualize that Jesus carried that cross of healing, the issue is adjudicated and there never was or will be anything else that adds to those moments and all healing through all time emanates from those sacred moments. Any healing has to go right to the source which is Jesus.

Even the gift of health and the state of health, is depending on the reigning mercy of Jesus and the healing power of Jesus for now and for all time.