Who or What is the Doctor?
Just
what or who is the Doctor? We spend more on medical care in this country
than on food. We obsess
on
doctors and their drugs (Those of us who are legal and can afford it. I
guess the kids just buy theirs off the street vendors). And yet, when
confronted with the ultimate health care question: “How are you going to
get around death?” most people say, “Don't be silly, we all have to die
and there’s nothing we can do about that!”
So, they are worried about
their warts and wrinkles, but not about the Final Wrap. On judgment day,
they will have no excuse. They assented to the law of death. They
acknowledged it and served under it. They understood the created things
and sought to hide the decay under Revlon and rhetoric. As if food could
cure the problem, they say “Don't eat that!” and “Eat this!”
This leads to the condemnation
of a society that has, as their sisters Sodom and Gomorrah had, too much
food and leisure time. In the justice of God, they will be questioned
about this very thing. “Why didn't you eat the correct food?” they will
be asked (in a very judgmental way).
“Didn't we eat low-fat and
high-energy? We eschewed bad food and bad drink for the glory of the
temple of God, our decaying bodies. Didn't we try SDA approved
vegetarian pig meat substitute? What didn't we try?” they will say on
that day.
And then they will know what
Jesus meant when he said, “Do not labor for the food that is consumed by
your bellies and is eliminated into the food cycle via your toilets. If
you're going to put all that effort in, why don't you buy of Me that
which satisfies? Why don't you eat my flesh and drink my blood?”
They will answer Him, “But my
doctor, upon whom I spent my life's earnings, told me to take Ensure and
I'd be O.K.”
“Depart from me, you
hypocrites,” He will say.
Who is the real Doctor around here, anyway?
- Chris Simonson
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