Medical technology has enabled many to live extra long lives. In the past week I have read articles that suggest simple ways that would enable many to live to be 100 or more. Unfortunately, even with the procedures and medicines that are available many are not healthy because they fail to take advantage of them. Others simply do not follow good health practices that would prevent the onset of diseases and conditons that rob one's health.
In Psalm 107:17-21 we see the Great Physician at work. Here people are declared to be fools because they have ignored good spiritual health precautions and have become sick and "because of their transgression and because of their iniquities were afflicted." They had lost their spiritual appetite as "their soul abhorred all manner of food" and they even looked sick as "they drew near to the gates of death." They were obviously in need of a physician. And once again God exhibted his transforming power in their lives. In response to their cry he "saved them out of their distresses; He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions."
Medicine can do wonderful things but it cannot remove the effects of sin. We all face spiritual infection and eventually the death that comes from sin. But our Great Physician can and has taken care of these. He will provide his salvation to everyone that calls upon his name. If you have already seen the Great Physician then praise him by joining in on the refrain of this chapter: "Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness..." If not, call upon him today for spiritual healing.
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