77. The Only Safeguard
Today’s reading: “The Ministry of Healing” pp. 135, 136.
So much of the physician’s effort and care seems wasted. Even the ones who recover don’t listen and resume their risky behaviour. How discouraging!
“Christ had the same experience.” You aren't alone. So learn the lesson, if you only have a success rate of one in 10, don’t be discouraged. If only one ever finds Christ, rejoice.
Recklessness in physical habits tends to recklessness in morals.
You must be self-controlled, pure in mind and have a strong faith. Anything less in a physician’s work is failure.
Notice that the strain of this work “tests the character” to the utmost. It truly is character-building. No wonder,
More than men in any other calling, is the physician in need of self-control, purity of spirit, and that faith which takes hold on heaven.
So how to get that experience? How to obtain the power of godliness that grows to righteousness? Fellowship with God through,
- Meditation on eternal things
- Prayer — frequent and conscious
- Bible study — frequent and conscious
This will fortify the character and form a life as purposeful, pure as influential as Moses, Joseph or Daniel’s. You will look like Jesus.
May you endure and persevere “seeing Him, who is invisible.” Heb. 11:27.
