Healing and Salvation

The penned ponderings of a medicine student and sister in Christ. Jesus really is the great physician =). There's not much for me to say here...just take in this analogy made between earthly and heavenly healers.
Luke 5:31,
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

"Doc, I sick. I donno but ma head hurtin’, ma feet painin’ an’ ma heart achin’. Fix mi nuh, Doc?"

The job of a doctor, physician or medical officer is to diagnose and treat every ailment that is presented before them in the most effective, yet least harmful way to the patient suffering said ailment.

It is said in Luke 5:31,
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”
-Jesus (NIV)

The same can be said of sinners. The saved don’t need salvation because they already have it, just as a healthy person does not need healing, because they already possess ‘health’. It is the unsaved that really need salvation; not the saints that need the word of salvation to be brought to them, but those that are ignorant of it. Make sense, no?

And just as the doctor of medicine is called to facilitate healing (I say facilitate, because it is only through the will of God that any of us receive healing. Doctors are only there to impart knowledge to the patient on how to go about the process of healing.), we as children of God have been commissioned to facilitate the Word of God being carried to every corner of the physical world we live in. As evangelists we are called to share with others how to go about the process of salvation and why they should even bother to go though this. We are doctors of the Word of God, facilitating the healing of the spiritually dead.

As diagnosed sinners, we now require treatment, but God offers something even better than that. He offers a cure: To be completely and utterly free of all sin and consequences thereof. How many illnesses in the world have a cure that has maintained its efficacy for over 2000 years and is guaranteed to stand the test of time, and even beyond time itself? Hmm…

But of course as with all treatments, for it to work, you have to agree to take it as recommended. And guess what, the dose of salvation is easy. Once requested, it’s a one time application, and the result? An eternal immunity when God establishes his Kingdom with us at the end of this age. However, until then, you must be willing to ‘take your booster shots’ and maintain your health. Remember, spiritual health is only possible with a strong immune system. Without your defences: the holy spirit, faith and time spent with God through prayer and reading his word to know his will, there is nothing to protect you. The sickness of sin is very virulent, and when given a chance, will try to wriggle its way right back where it nested. What better way to prevent this tragic occurrence than to avoid making contact with the virus altogether? Sin is all around us, almost everywhere we turn to look, but if we keep our treatment regiment and maintain our I.S. we can do it!

~Phylicia Henry