Soothing Relief

The Healer

By Josh Watkins

My pain is great

My body trembles

Day after day I cry out in anguish.

I am consumed by darkness

Tormented by evil

Beaten down by the world.

I try to run, try to hide

But my troubles find me.

I feel death closing in

My breath is crushed

My eyes are blinded

My lips cannot even utter a saving plea.

Help is nowhere to be found

All hope seems lost.

With my dying breath

I cry out a Name.

A Name that saves

Death moans in agony

Darkness flees in fear

I feel warm rays of light kissing my skin.

I feel a hand on my shoulder

Containing a touch so marvelous

I am immediately soothed.

The Owner of the hand whispers gently into my ear

“I am with you.”

I no longer feel dead

But alive and well.

A life is growing within me

So full of joy

That the world must know their Savior lives.

He abolished death

Conquered evil

And sacrificed Himself to save the ones He loves.

He is the Messiah

He is the Son of God

He is my Friend, Redeemer, and King

He is Jesus Christ.

Life ain't always roses and daisies and sweet cherry pie. Life pelts you with lemons, curve balls, and ricocheting bullets. There were times I felt a little like the beginning of this poem, but it was over dramatized for effect. Yet, the second half breathes truth into anyone dealing with the first. All that pain, disappointment, sorrow that weighs you down and you feel as you have no hope, no one to turn to. The answer for that is right in front of you. He may not take all the bad stuff away, but He will be with you every step and when you can walk no further, He will carry you. 

There is another poem called Footprints and its one of my favorite Christian pieces not written by me (google it). To sum up the poem, a man has a dream he is walking with the Lord on a beach. He see memories of his life flash before him, but on certain ones there were only one set of footprints instead of two. The man realizes that these times were his most difficult. He asks the Lord "Where were You?" The Lord replied "I will never leave you nor forsake you. During those times I carried you." 

No matter what trials or judgments we face in life, if we have chosen the path of Light, to follow the Lord, He will carry us when we can no longer walk.