Doctors

In the last two days I have had three visits to three different doctors. It is interesting how closely you are examined before you can even enter the building these days. They take your temperature and you have to answer a battery of questions. If nothing else, it made we feel a little safer entering the doctors’ offices.

Wouldn’t we all be better off if someone took the same level of interest in other areas of our lives? Why isn’t someone asking me these types of questions?

• How is your mental state these days? Are you feeling anxious or worried?
• How is your family handling the health crisis? Are you encouraging one another or irritated by one another?
• How are you doing financially right now? Are you working? Is money stretched to the point you are stressed?
• How are your personal relationships going? Do you have meaningful visits with others?

I think that we don’t ask these types of questions because we are afraid of possible consequences. We don’t want to be caught up in someone else quagmire. We don’t want to commit time and resources to help.

I know of only one person who has been able to jump fully into helping others regardless of the consequences. That person is Jesus. He humbled himself completely and selflessly to bring salvation to every hurting soul. He knows our thoughts and our needs and was willing to put himself in harm’s way to give us what we really wanted and needed.

If you are hurting right now, you are not alone. Jesus knows your pain and is offering love to you. Try asking him for help. You will find that he understands and wants to help.

“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” Philippians 2:4-8 ESV