Health, Our High Priest, part four

One of my son's said, "Mom, it cost Jesus something to heal people. Matthew 8:16 shows the healing power of Jesus, "...and healed all that were sick" and verse 17 shows what it cost Him. "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."  The word bare means: to lift, to take up.  He not only took our sin but He took our sickness too."

• “Christ alone was able to bear the afflictions of the many. In all their affliction He was afflicted (Isaiah 63:9). He never bore disease in His own flesh but He carried the sickness of others. With tenderest sympathy He looked upon the suffering ones who pressed about Him. He groaned in spirit as He saw the work of Satan revealed in all their woe and He made every case of need and of sorrow His own. No multiplicity of numbers distracted Him, no anguish overwhelmed Him, with a power that never quailed he cast out the evil spirits that possessed mind and body while the pain of the sufferers thrilled through his whole being. The power of love was in all his healing, he identified his interests with suffering humanity…" (That I May Know Him pg. 48)
• "Christ feels the woes of every sufferer, when fever is burning up the life current He feels the agony." DA 823
• "And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years...touched His garment...And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up...And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?" (Mark 5:25-30)

Question....  

Is it only sickness relieved by miraculous healing that Jesus bears?

Of course not; reason tells us that "He healeth all thy diseases". (Psalm 103:3)  But do we believe that when the household pandemic, rhinovirus,  steals our rest?  Do we praise God because Jesus feels our suffering when we cant breathe and our joints are throbbing? Are we confident He is bearing our sickness when about to fall asleep and are suddenly choked awake by a coughing fit?  Where is health then?  Is it something we wait for while our white blood cell count returns to normal? 

I propose that Health is with us, feeling the pain of our little annoyance, (because after all a cold is just a small thing).  But He is with us, groaning in spirit as He sees the work sickness reveals in our bodies.  He says, "I am right here, and I will heal you."  Whether in an instant, or over the course of a week, health is a miracle paid for by Christ's sacrifice.  

"Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.  For we have not an high priest which canot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities..."  Hebrews 4:14, 15