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Why Don't You Go to the Doctor?

Joshua Welch
09/16/18 - Sunday AM

Jesus is a physician. And while He was on earth, He visited and healed the sick (both physically and spiritually). While the religious leaders of that time questioned His decision to eat with and spend time with the spiritually sick of this world, Jesus rebukes them and informs them that He is simply doing His job. He did not come to heal people who are already well, but to heal the sick ones.

 

Why don't we go to the Doctor? Here may be some reasons:

 

1) We aren't convinced we are sick (enough). i.e. We don't need Jesus. We don't need salvation. They'll be time for all that later on in life.

2) We need someone to take us. i.e. I would love to know more about Jesus and His gospel, but I am never taught and I have no one in my life who offers spritual advice or who takes me to church.

3) We don't like to be around sick people. i.e We don't want to be around the lost, the needy, or even the hypoctrites of the church. They are all sick, yet they may be in church and I don't want to be around negativity.

4) We don't think the Doctor can help. i.e. We are too lost in sin. We have been "too bad" for Jesus to forgive me. How can He forgive me or help me when I can't even do the same for myself?

5) We don't want to spend the money. i.e. Whether it is literally that we don't want to support the work of the church, or we don't want to sacrifice and give of ourselves to the church or to God.

6) We think we will get better on our own. i.e. We can handle it. I can do the works. I don't need to trust and commit my life to His grace. I can find another path to God other than Jesus and His way. I can make my life better without the help of Jesus.

7) We do not like to take our medicine. i.e. We don't want to experience the pain and hardship, to put in the effort, of living a righteous life of faith. I don't want to bear the pain of losing others who abandon the faith. I don't want to sacrifice my evil ways.  The means of getting better is not worth the end result of spiritual health.

8) We don't have time for that. i.e. It's just not that important. We have too much else going on than to focus and devote time to our own spiritual health.

 

Ultimately, these are all nothing more than excuses that prevent us from doing that which is necessary for our own health and our own remission of our cancer.