Sick

When did we see you sick. . . Matthew 25:39

One of the things I get to do on a regular basis is visit with sick folk. Sometimes it is in the hospital, other times in homes. I always empathize with them because I know what it is to be sick. I especially hate it when it is a child who is sick and can’t really tell others what the problem is.

I was thinking about all those folks around us who are sick with sin. Most of the time they can’t tell you what is wrong. We have been surrounded by a society that tells us nothing is wrong and everything is all right, and that has made us sicker than we were before.

The Truth of God’s Word has been ignored, or thrown away as it were, and we just don’t feel good because somewhere down inside our innermost being we know there is something dreadfully wrong.

What we need is someone to set it right. When one of my grandsons is sick, it will probably be grandmother who will send me to look through the vast shelf of medications occupying a cabinet in the bathroom and comes up with something that makes it all better. If things go as they normally do, he’ll be ready for soccer practice in the afternoon.

What our friends and neighbors need is for one of us, or some of us, to break out the medicine of God’s Word and help them apply it to the circumstances of their lives. They will thereby have the oppportunity to get what is needed to resolve the problems of a sin sick soul.

Not every child has a grandmother who knows what to do when the brow is fevered and the stomach aches. Unfortunately not many people find access to someone who knows enough, or is willing enough, to find the right stuff (read: Truth) and get it to the right person and place.

So here’s the point. Do you know someone who is sick with sin? Do you know the healing power of God’s Word and Spirit in relationship to sin? Well, then, what are you waiting for?