How Sick Are You?

ALL – Psalm 10:16-18
ALL – Proverbs 3:9-10
OT – Genesis 26:17-27:46
NT – Matthew 9:1-17

We hate going to the doctor. At least, many of us do. We’ll moan, groan, and walk around the house in our pajamas for a week. We’ll let our spouses serve us breakfast in bed, tuck us into bed, set us up in front of the TV with a remote and a bowl of chicken soup, and treat us—in general—like babies. But we won’t go to the doctor. And we sometimes despise people who do. “They’re always sick!” “They can’t take care of themselves.” “They’re hypochondriacs!”

When the Pharisees saw Jesus surrounded by “notorious swindlers,” as the Living Bible puts it, they couldn’t understand why Jesus would have anything to do with such people (Matt. 9:10-11). They had failed to discern that the Christ would come as a doctor, healing the spiritually sick. In response to their question about why Jesus associated with low-lifes, He said:

Because people who are well don’t need a doctor! It’s the sick people who do! – Matthew 9:12

The Pharisees were like those of us who get sick, but refuse to see a doctor. Instead, they were trying to tell the Doctor how to run His practice. Jesus wasn’t diverted by them at all. He continued to minister to the spiritually sick and to heal them.

Have you realized how sick you are? Have you come to Jesus for healing?

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