Ah...Just to clarify what the 'stripes' Christ suffered accomplished..and of which we are healed as follows:
The healing here referred to, is 'spiritual healing', or healing from sin...... Pardon of sin, and restoration to the favor of God,.....these are not unfrequently represented as an act of healing.
The fact sinners are often represented as crushed,.. broken,... bruised ...by the weight of their transgressions, and so the removal of the load of sin is repesented as an act of healing.
'I said, O Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul, for I have sinned againt thee' Psalm 41:4.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed' Psalm 6:2.
The idea here is, that the Messiah would be scourged; and that it would be by that scourging that health would be imparted.... 'to our souls'.
'Sin' is a disease belonging to all men, a natural, hereditary, nauseous, and incurable one, ...but by the blood of Christ; forgiving sin is 'a healing of this disease'; and this is to be had in no other way than through the stripes and wounds,.. the blood and sacrifice,.. of the Son of God.
With all the emphasis on physical healing, people often forget that there’s emotional healing and mental healing as well and they are not insignificant.
I’ve gotten a LOT of emotional healing recently, but it doesn’t show, now does it?
But no, that’s not good enough either. It HAS to be physical healing, although I wouldn’t trade off for that in a heart beat. The not eating is nothing compared to the emotional mess I was before.