Thursday, June 25, 2015

Don't Ever Trust A Doctor Trust God

I don't ever trust a doctor, I trust God and He has used doctors to keep me alive for many years. I had bad tonsils, a doctor took them out and I was much healthier for many years. I was not able to give birth, I would not dilate past four when giving birth after 36 hours of labor. I was developing a temp so they took the baby Cesarean Section, the next child had to be the same way. Had it not been for doctors I would have died 44 years ago, before I was saved.

There have been other life threatening and miserable things that the doctor fixed for me. God allowed them to have the knowledge they have to be able to carry out His healing.

I will never negate doctors in general, I will evaluate in prayer whatever they suggest, but I will never disparage all people in that profession. I am grateful for hospitals and doctors, they have made my life better all the way around.

Secondly I see this "distrust all doctors" phase a little like I saw the cafeteria food in college. Everyone was pressured to hate the food, my friends thought that I was weird for not complaining about it, I liked it, it filled me up and was tasty too. Often people get on the band wagon with complainers when they really haven't see what everyone is talking about. Their opinions are based purely on the cultural expectation to be ungrateful if things aren't perfect.

What is amusing about this is that often the people who are on the latest craze about an issue, have not seen for themselves what others proclaim, they just jump on the band wagon, ignorantly riding it down the road to be a part of the revelry.

God has provided doctors, some very good ones who save lives every day. I will not show ungratefulness by lumping all doctors as quacks just because of stories other people tell. My personal experience has been good with a minor glitch or two here or there over 62 years, but over all I have been healed and cured many times.

We have to remember, doctors are human too, they are not perfect they make mistakes just as you and I do, but that does not mean they are deliberately making those mistakes nor does it mean that if a doctor does make a mistake, they cannot be trusted at all.

We help the doctors by telling them our pains, they make diagnosis based on tests and sometimes all they have is educated guesses, they are not all knowing as God is, so to expect them to be perfect is ludicrous since we are not perfect ourselves. The difference is their job is more stressful because lives are at stake when they make a mistake. I have compassion for a doctor who has worked hard to resolve an illness but loses a patient anyway. I remember that they are not in control of life and death, God is.

There are good and bad doctors just like there are good and bad teachers, mechanics, plumbers and others in professions that help us fix things. To lump them all as lacking character and having mercenary motives is irrational.

May we remember to treat doctors with honor and respect while they do the difficult job of attempting to diagnose our problems with only our testimony and some tests to help them. God can even use unsaved doctors to heal us, for His glory while the doctor sees our loving and gracious attitude through the whole process.

After all isn't our display of Christlikeness more important than the actual healing, if we pass we're going to heaven and if we do it will not be the doctors fault, it is God who decides when we go.

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