I heard someone the other day say, “God is the ultimate physician.” It’s a statement I’ve heard before, but it’s never struck me like it did this time. We don’t care what the doctor reports say. We know that God can change things, because God is the ultimate healer... or at least, that’s what we say.
The question is, however, if God is the ultimate physician, why do we still fail to trust him in all areas of our lives. Think of it this way. You go to the doctor because you’re feeling pretty crappy. Sinus infection, maybe. The doctor says all you need is a shot and you’ll be in tip top shape. “Shoot me, doc!” Actually, it’s not even the doctor, but the nurse with her 2 year degree that jabs the needle into your arms. Regardless, he/she was right. You feel better the next day and you’re back to work in no time. Thanks Doc! Maybe it’s something worse. Knee replacement. Doc says he’s going to go in, replace your knee with some manmade substance (by a man you don’t know btw). Recovery is going to suck. You’ll be off your feet for a while and feel worse before you’ll feel better, but eventually, you’ll be walking around like a new person. Cancer. You go through radiation. You lose your hair. You’re weak. You’re sick. You don’t even know what is going into your body or how it’s helping. It doesn’t feel like it’s helping, but the doctor said it will, so it must.
You put all your trust into these hands. You put your life into hands of strangers. You take pills and treatments with no idea as to how they’re helping or what’s in them, because you were told without them you would die. Or maybe you wouldn’t die. Maybe you just wouldn’t be able to walk. Maybe you’d lose a limb or an eye or whatever, but you will do whatever it takes to protect this physical body. This casing. But you see, that’s all it is. Casing. A temporary home for your eternal soul. The soul to which you feed negativity, hatred, pornography, drugs, depression, selfishness, resentment, fear, insecurity, unforgiveness. You live with these things day after day, feeling hopeless, feeling like there’s no way out. If only there were a doctor for that. If only there was someone to tell you how to fight off these illnesses and once and for all be cured... But there is.
You just don’t trust this doctor. You want to know the whys and the what fors. You want to question again and again, make excuses, and put things off. You don’t ask Dr. Hassleburger what’s in the shot he wants to give you. You just take it, because he knows more than you do. You don’t read up on every single treatment we receive, ask for copies of certifications from the technicians, and still question their every move. When they say, “It’ll get worse before it gets better,” you don’t throw in the towel and say “forget it!” You have faith that they know what they’re doing and that it will in fact get better. But with God, you ask for affirmation after affirmation and still don’t listen to his calling. You focus on the “worse” part and search for something instantaneous yet fleeting. You sacrifice your soul for it’s housing. Why do you keep doing this to yourself? Why can’t you trust the God of life? Why can’t you put our soul, your life into the hand of the ultimate physician. He’s given you a guidebook and offered eternity if you will only take it. “Trust in the Lord, your God, with ALL your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In ALL your ways, submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.” -Proverbs 3:5-6. Start caring more for your soul than your body. Focus on your eternal life rather than our earthly one. Make the most of your time. Make it God’s time.
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