Great Physician

Mark 2:17

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Yesterday I had to take my son to the doctor because he had an ear infection.  He had been up the night before crying that his ear hurt.  Upon hearing that he had to go to the doctor, suddenly he felt better.  Of course I knew better and still took him to the doctor to get the medication needed to heal him.

This started me thinking this morning about how the world often lives when it comes to the Great Physician.  We really don’t want to go to him unless it’s serious.  And while Jesus said it is not the healthy that need a doctor, but the sick, we may very well be sick but we pretend to be healthy so we do not have to go to the Great Physician. 

Brothers and sisters in Christ, we are all sick!  We have this deadly disease called sin.  We are in need of the Great Physician to give us the medication needed to heal us.  This medication can only come from him. 

I urge you today to go to the Great Physician and seek the medication needed to heal whatever it is in your life that you need healing from.