We trust a man who’s his first name we don’t even know, we just call him Doctor Jones. We let that man cut us open with a knife and reach inside us to remove a tumor, and do it while we are unconscious from anesthetic. We have not a clue how it will all occur, we simply trust him to get it right. In fact we don’t even know who is in the room while he’s doing all this but it’s not our friends and family in there. But we let him do it because he’s trying to save our life. And we want to live. And the entire time he’s working on us we are out cold. Why can’t we trust God to cut deep into us and remove that thing that is killing our spirit?
When God is operating on us we are wide awake and talking to Him and He is speaking to us through His word and the Holy Spirit. And we can talk back to Him to tell Him we are hurting and where we feel pain. We are surrounded by friends, family and have every comfort available.
Sometimes doctors do a little extra work in surgery. They go in to sew up a separated shoulder when they find some arthritis that they scrape out or perhaps a bit of loose cartilage that they remove. They are skilled and competent and they are gratified that they have helped the patient, and we are all the better for it.
God is the most competent surgeon of all. If we only let Him do his work we find he will do more than we thought was needed and He will be blessed and happy that he has done it for us.
There are times that a doctor goes in for surgery and stops because the matter is worse than he expected, maybe more specialized surgery is required or an apparatus is needed which he cannot obtain at that time. Worse yet, he may realize that the disease has spread too far and there is simply nothing he can do. With our Lord, there is no excess of damage or disease that stops Him for doing precisely what we need done.
When the doctor opens us up to go after the tumor or disease, he does not curse out the mass of tissue or angrily call it by name as a perpetrator of evil. He just removes it and repairs the surrounding areas; happy once again to do it as he knows best.
Neither does our Lord view the tumor of our sin He is removing with a vile attitude. He’s not mad that we’ve let such a thing develop within us. He knows we live in a sick broken world where these diseases are rampant. He has saved and is saving us from all of this. In fact He is pleading our case to His father every moment to work everything out for our good. He simply removes the tumor and repairs the damage and He’s happy to do it.
Remember, he promised our deliverance to Adam and Eve in the garden. He conducted all the affairs of mankind to prepare for His coming, all the way down to selecting the man Abraham, the tribe of people, the prophets, priests and warriors, the kings and the sheep herders, a virgin, a manger, a life to testify of His father and all truth and the selection of his disciples. His humble obedience in the face of every evil, denial, mockery and back stabbing. His death and resurrection perfectly fulfilled all the prophecies of the ages. He descended to hell to tear off the gates, providing those captive with their freedom. All this was celebrated in heaven more joyously than any event to have occurred in eternity. From this the Holy Spirit was sent to us as a guide, comforter and the knowledge of God to man on this earth. Then He sat down at the right hand of God His father to make constant intercession for us. And He was pleased to do it.
But for some reason we think we are the one person on this earth who will not qualify for the healing hand of God’s love. We alone were born to a condition or worse yet we have taken some path voluntarily that has removed us from the reach of His special mercies, healing, provision and love. Those are lies from the pit of hell. No such thought comes from God.
He has done every last thing, carried out every last mission to its finest point successfully to forgive all the sins of all mankind for all time. Do you think he will leave you with some sin disease that will drain your spirit dry? After all He’s done for us, sacrificed and died for, will He leave you withered, shriveled gasping your last breath alone on the windswept plain of desolation?
Never!
He will remove the disease of your sin and weakness and repair the damage without judgment and be glad to do it. That is who God is. That is how we were forgiven. That is how He is forgiving us. That is how we will be forgiven.
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