The Healing Power of Jesus Christ

Rudy is kind and forgiving and told the manager it was OK if they just repaired the damage and brought back the same piano, but the manager insisted on getting us a new one.

Rudy responded, saying, “It couldn’t be that bad. Just fix it up and bring it over.”

The manager said, “The wood is broken, and once the wood is broken, it can never sound the same. You will get a new piano.”

Sisters and brothers, aren’t we all like this piano, a little broken, cracked, and damaged, feeling like we will never be the same again? However, as we come unto Jesus Christ by exercising faith in Him, repenting, and making and keeping covenants, our brokenness—whatever its cause—can be healed. This process, which invites the Savior’s healing power into our lives, does not just restore us to what we were before but makes us better than we ever were. I know that through our Savior, Jesus Christ, we can all be mended, made whole, and fulfill our purpose, just like a beautiful-sounding, brand-new piano.

Some things cannot be fully repaired by people but Christ is able to heal us as good as new or even better than new when needed.

To heal brokenness by coming unto Him, we need to have faith in Jesus Christ. “Having faith in Jesus Christ means relying completely on Him—trusting in His infinite power … and love. It includes believing His teachings. It means believing that even though we do not understand all things, He does. Because He has experienced all our pains, afflictions, and infirmities, He knows how to help us rise above our daily difficulties.”

We will find peace if we trust that the are no limits to what Christ can do to heal people.

Of the Savior’s ability to heal and lighten burdens, Elder Tad R. Callister has taught:

“One of the blessings of the Atonement is that we can receive of the Savior’s succoring powers. Isaiah spoke repeatedly of the Lord’s healing, calming influence. He testified that the Savior was ‘a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat’. As to those who sorrow, Isaiah declared that the Savior possessed the power to ‘comfort all that mourn’, and ‘wipe away tears from off all faces’; ‘revive the spirit of the humble’; and ‘bind up the brokenhearted’. So expansive was his succoring power that he could exchange ‘beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness’.

“Oh, what hope soars in those promises! … His spirit heals; it refines; it comforts; it breathes new life into hopeless hearts. It has the power to transform all that is ugly and vicious and worthless in life to something of supreme and glorious splendor. He has the power to convert the ashes of mortality to the beauties of eternity.”

Until we can trust in that kind of healing or hope will be limited.