Medicine and Comfort
Last night about 10:45pm my son woke up crying out for help. He has been a little sick and we had to give him some medicine for a couple of days. Last night he said that his throat was hurting. I gave him some medicine and his mother comforted him till he was able to fall a sleep and get some rest around 11:20pm.
As I lay in the bed while my wife was still in my son’s room, I pondered these thoughts:
As a lost person we are sick with sin [Romans 3:23], and the Physician [Matthew 9:12] came with medicine [Revelation 1:5] to remedy that sin and to cleanse us from that sickness forever [1 Corinthians 15].
As a saved person we are to make known the Physician’s remedy [Romans 1:16] and warning labels [John 3:18] to the sick that do not know him.
As we do, we sometimes entangle ourselves [Galatians 5:1] and pollute ourselves [Galatians 4:9] while we are supposed to be at work among, not in, the sickness. And while we serve God with our spirit [Philippians 3:3], our flesh is still infected [Galatians 5:17] and needs the medicine [i.e. chastisement, Revelation 3:19] of God to give us a desire [2 Thessalonians 3:5] and cause [Philippians 2:13] us to move away from the causes of sin that we find ourselves taking pleasure in [Hebrews 11:25]. Even sometimes God’s medicine is as my son says, “I don’t like it daddy” [Hebrews 12:11], but it gets the job done [1 Corinthians 11:32].
Yet, through it all our heavenly Father has given us a Comforter [John 14:26] that is with us from the very day we become His child [Ephesians 1:13], and will see us through to the other side of glory [John 14:16]!
As I lay in the bed while my wife was still in my son’s room, I pondered these thoughts:
As a lost person we are sick with sin [Romans 3:23], and the Physician [Matthew 9:12] came with medicine [Revelation 1:5] to remedy that sin and to cleanse us from that sickness forever [1 Corinthians 15].
As a saved person we are to make known the Physician’s remedy [Romans 1:16] and warning labels [John 3:18] to the sick that do not know him.
As we do, we sometimes entangle ourselves [Galatians 5:1] and pollute ourselves [Galatians 4:9] while we are supposed to be at work among, not in, the sickness. And while we serve God with our spirit [Philippians 3:3], our flesh is still infected [Galatians 5:17] and needs the medicine [i.e. chastisement, Revelation 3:19] of God to give us a desire [2 Thessalonians 3:5] and cause [Philippians 2:13] us to move away from the causes of sin that we find ourselves taking pleasure in [Hebrews 11:25]. Even sometimes God’s medicine is as my son says, “I don’t like it daddy” [Hebrews 12:11], but it gets the job done [1 Corinthians 11:32].
Yet, through it all our heavenly Father has given us a Comforter [John 14:26] that is with us from the very day we become His child [Ephesians 1:13], and will see us through to the other side of glory [John 14:16]!
We need to thank God for His medicine and His comfort, knowing it is for our own good.
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