I had one lady tell me that there was no excuse for anyone being sick. I explained all the scripture about that, she argued with me and two weeks later she broke her leg and sat on the couch for six weeks like everyone else would have to, and guess what? She went to the hospital to have it set and in a cast. Go figure!!!!
She had left the Memmonite church to become "Christian Science", I had been praying for her to see the truth about all this. Even the broken leg and trip to the hospital didn't change what she believed. How utterly blind one can be when we live in a fantasy world.
All too often a pretender will choose to believe something that is clearly unBiblical and lacking in sense, but they will hang onto it out of pride. What they follow doesn't even work for them, but they will remain faithful to it because of their desire to be elevated in knowledge above others.
2 Timothy 3:6-7 "6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
I see so many things "Christians" are falling into that not only don't make sense according to the Bible, but have been shown to have no value in their lives in terms of spiritual growth, in fact these people who live in this fantasy land, regress in their walk and even severely retard any progressive move toward Christ.
My prayer would be that everyone who calls themselves by Christ's name would ask HIM to continually reveal truth, rejecting anything that conflicts with God's principles.
Deuteronomy 4:29 "But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul."
Proverbs 8:17 "I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me."
Proverbs 14:7-14
"Leave the presence of a fool, Or you will not discern words of knowledge.
8 The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way, But the foolishness of fools is deceit.
9 Fools mock at sin, But among the upright there is [f]good will.
10 The heart knows its own bitterness, And a stranger does not share its joy.
11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, But the tent of the upright will flourish.
12 There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
13 Even in laughter the heart may be in pain, And the end of joy may be grief.
14 The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his."
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.
Yes!!! I reduced my slightly high cholesterol to perfectly normal by eating eggs. The doctor was surprised at the answer when he asked how I did it and I said, "I eat lots of eggs." LOL
Seek God and He can tell you the truth about everything. The doctors are very useful and can be God's answer to our troubles, I appreciate them very much. However I do seek God first because much of what traditional medicine has taught over the years was based on evolution and not true science.
I am not into all the natural stuff, but I do believe much of science has been perverted because of faulty foundations. For instance, when a space ship landed on the moon, the scientists designed the ship to be able to stand above 20 feet of dust, when they arrived they only found a few inches.
It should have alerted the education industry that we need to go back and modify the text books, but instead they leave out pertinent information to be able to stay with evolution. When there is rebellion against God in the heart, there is also much deception that strokes their egos making them resistant to truth.
James 3:14 "14 But if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth."
Isaiah 59:12-13, "For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them; In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood."
