Healing

Healing was extremely integral in Jesus' ministry.

Matt:4:23. And He healed every kind of disease and illness.

There was not a single disease that He could not heal. He healed them all.

Why did Jesus include healing into His ministry? Because sickness is a consequence of sin. And while He came to the earth to save the sinful, He had to deal with its consequences too.

Why Jesus had to suffer the cross? Isa:53 enlists four reasons -

• Our rebellion

• Our sins

• So that we could be whole

• So that we could be healed

Healing is part of making us whole - in His image and likeness.

It is this huge ministry that JESUS Himself handled, that has been handed over to health care fraternity. But this privilege of making one whole and presentable to Jesus, many have squandered. Now they appease another master - the mammon. Instead of compassion and love, there is greed and selfishness. Instead of selfless giving, there is accumulation and hoarding.

And what if the healing doesn't occur as expected? Because they who treat are also fallen humans. There are assaults. There are hospital attacks. There are destruction of hospital properties. Then there are rights for doctors. Rights for hospitals. Where has all these gone wrong? The very understanding of Jesus in our lives the source of all healing is a long lost memory in our lives.

Do as Jesus would do - forsaking sleep and tiredness. Look at the nursing professionals. They do all the care that they give to the patients, yet go unnoticed! A filthy ulcer being daily dressed and cleaned. The post op care they give. All go without any pomp and glory. Have you ever seen a nurse's or a janitor's or a Gardner's advertisement for a hospital? That such and such a nurse or a sweeper has joined our prestigious hospital? Where as we see that for doctors. Why the glory for the doctors and the management? When the basic essential teaching is to serve.

The heart's motive is wrong. That's all I say. And the change has to happen in the heart. I have to be that change.

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