An exciting aspect of our modern society is the medical technology we have developed. One day at church the prayer requests included a man who had successfully had double knee replacement, another who had experienced a stem cell transplant operation, several who had successful back surgeries and even a little boy who had come through successful heart surgery.
Last week my two week old great grandson had successful surgery to replace a section of his aorta and expected to go home at the end of this week. What a marvel modern medicine is! We thank the doctors and the Great Physician.
Fifty years ago South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation. The patient, Louis Washkansky, survived for 18 days. Now it is common to hear of people getting a heart transplant as well as many other types of organ transplants with complete success. Medical science has been granted the gift of life-prolonging techniques beyond what we could have imagined when I was a child.
However, life still comes to an end at our appointed time. The surgery that will prepare us to move successfully from this life into eternity is heart surgery of another kind. Our spiritual heart needs replacing. The Bible indicates that we need to become new creations in Christ Jesus by having a change of heart. By nature our spiritual heart is doomed to failure. Unless we get the transplant provided by Jesus on the cross we have no hope.
Many people all around us have no idea that they need a Surgeon, but the Great Physician has commissioned us to spread the word regarding the disease of sin along with the good news that a procedure for its cure has already been provided and its price has been paid. God has given each believer the privilege of becoming his surgical assistant. Will you take the job?
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