Word of the Week: Yahweh Rophe

This week I'm living in Chicago Illinois. I'd never spent the night here (that I can remember) until this Monday evening, and now, I live about 1/4 of a mile from the Magnificent Mile at Moody Bible Institute. I am doing my one week of classes at school for the semester of homework I'm doing on my own at home. I'm taking a class called "Biblical Theology of the New Testament" and I'm learning so much my brain might just explode. So, partly for this reason, and partly to have a good excuse to introduce you to another student, and partly to give that student a chance to show her stuff, the Word of the Week is brought to you by Angie.
I see Angie more each week than any other student because she is SO involved at TCF -- and TCF is BLESSED by her presence and service. Praise the Lord for her!! And please check out what she's got to say:


Yahweh Rophe (yah- WEH ro- FEH)

Have you ever had a broken heart? Broken spirit? A headache? Or anything else that need healing? Well, let me share with you the perfect remedy!


Rophe is the Hebrew word for “heal”, “cure”, “restore”, or “make whole”. God revealed himself as Yahweh Rophe, “the LORD who heals”; to his people shortly after they left Egypt for the Promised Land. The Hebrew Scriptures indicate that God is the source of all healing. Not only can he heal the body but the mind and soul as well. He can heal everything from sin to apostasy and the aliments that come from living in a world with evil in it.

In the Old Testament, God smites people for their sins to wake them up to their spiritual danger. Yet, he quickly restores them when they repent. A good thing to ask God is to help us see the link between obedience and health, physical and spiritual.

Yahweh Rophe is “the LORD who heals” and he showed us this when he sent his only son down to us. “The New Testament reveals Jesus as the Great Physician, the healer of body and soul, whose miracles point to the kingdom of God.” When God allowed Jesus to die for us on the cross, Jesus took on not only our sins but all our infirmities as well; completely making us whole inside and out.

The healing Jesus offers today is not merely physical and therefore temporary. His miracles are far more penetrating, like his word, “dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).

There is a lot of pain in this world and sometimes it is difficult to be strong and believe. We need to remember to hold fast to Yahweh Rophe and ask him to reveal himself as “the LORD who heals us.”

Do you believe?

Jeremiah 17:14- “Heal me, O LORD, and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”