Medicines, Doctors and the Great Physician

I found out a friend of mine had, had a heart attack and was in treatment for it. He didn’t tell me… his wife brought the subject up. I told the wife to be careful to not look or smell too good because her husbands heart might not be able to take it. Lol.

I observed that my friend still smoked. I mentioned that smoking makes the blood hyper-coagulable and he could stroke out. He said… I take an Aspirin every day to prevent that.

I asked him if he had changed his diet any. He said he had a little bit but his wife said he had not. Sheepishly he said the heart medications took care of that for him.

This typifies a common notion that is going around among many. They don’t want to put in the work to be healthy and to have true health they want to rely on medicine and doctors to manage their unhealthy life style.

That’s kind of like the guy who decides to become a Christian and has all his nasty sins washed away but then does nothing to grow. Just relies on “God’s grace” and “prayer” and wears those things like a Badge of Honor. Never truly maturing in Christ. Never trying to develop the image of Christ in their lives and never equipping oneself with the full Christian armor.

To truly have good health, both physical and spiritual, requires some effort.

We might need to put down the spoon and step away from the table and start feeding and nurturing others. Just like Jesus did. Do that and you can live forever.