The job of the Doctor

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a doctor? I bet you have as a kid or maybe as you prepare for 'higher education'. One thing we never think about when we think of Doctors is the hard part of their job the part where you have to sit someone down look them in the face and with complete compassion (while holding it together) say "Sir I am sorry I have some bad news, your sick and your dieing and unless we operate right away your going to die". But have you ever thought beyond that, what about the person who wont accept that they are sick and need help or they will die. What do you say to the person who after having just been told they have an aggressive form of cancer that must be operated on today, they look you in the face and say "But doctor I am not sick". What then?

Being a Christian is like that except in the case of the Christian there are not enough doctors and the patients that are the sickest have convinced the other patients they are not sick as well. It is truly as Christ said a harvest without enough harvesters. The Chief surgeon has offered to do all of the surgeries that may be required, the price has already been paid by a man nailed to a cross. But what good was it for him to pay that price if the one he offered it for will not accept it? If the sick man not only says to the Chief Surgeon but also to the man who having no obligation too, offers to pay for the surgery, and an expensive one at that.

Or what is worse when the sick man first accepts the surgery but then declares he does not want it to hurt. Does he have any right to say it must not hurt? What right in fact does he have, someone else has paid the price which the sick man himself could not afford and the surgeon the Chief surgeon is preforming the surgery sometimes under the worst conditions but the sick man is guaranteed that while the surgery will hurt, and while his recovery will be slow and painful; he will indeed recover, he will be alive to recover and he will be okay in the end. Is this not the case of many Christians today?

And what of those who after having been told the Chief surgeon will preform the surgery and that another has paid its price, what then when they declare themselves healed? The surgery has not yet been preformed, only the consent has been given. It can take years once begun a life time to complete. Searching the body from head to toe for the cancer one cell at a time, cleansing it cutting out the foul disease. And what is worse? To be the patient under the knife in agonizing pain screaming for the doctor to stop knowing he can't, or to be the Doctor preforming the surgery hearing the man you are trying to save scream holler and beg for you to stop. And this often times is why it takes so long because the Chief Surgeon having been begged sufficiently does stop, and the man returns again and again knowing the procedure must be completed knowing the surgeon must finish or you will die. And in some cases when the sick man returns to have the procedure worked on more to his horror he finds it has spread.

Being a doctor is awesome and horrible, and being a Christian is not any better.