Proverbs 8:34-36: “Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoever finds me finds life, And obtains favor from the Lord; But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”Medicine cannot be Enlightenment-based and truly minister to people. It must be explicitly based on the gospel. Ignoring or rejecting the gospel is effectively hating God and thus loving death.
Medical care which confesses its dependence on and service to God can foreshadow the real healing, the final lifting of the curse which is to come. The very partial, very temporary healing which can sometimes be provided can be an image of the greater to come, as well as a temporary mercy. Medical care which does not make this connection is ministering an image of eternal death. We need to look to that tree whose leaves are for the healing of the nations. Christ hung on a tree and made available thereby to His elect this healing.
Excerpt from "Are We Christians Dying to Meet Him?"
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