The Right Doctor

"The doctor will hurt me!"

These were the plaintive words that my young son cried as mywife prepared to take him to the doctor.

It was just a routine checkup.

He remembered the last time. He got shots. The shots hurt.

I couldn't explain to him the benefits of seeing the doctor.He didn't understand bacteria and viruses.

He couldn't see them.

He could only feel the pain and did not see or know the threatof the unseen.

Life is often like that.

We endure painful things to make us stronger. The pain oftenprevents us from going through worse things in the future.

When things are sick in our lives, remember most, if not all,medicine is bitter. The cure usually tastes bad and feels bad,but it will make us better and stop the pain.

So it is with life.

Even the withdrawal from the old things and the people that madeus sick is bitter, but it will make us well.

The right doctor will not hurt you.

This is true in both the physical and the spiritual.

But neither can the doctor heal you, if you do not go.

This is also true in both the physical and the spiritual.

The right doctor will not hurt you, but has sacrificed to save you.

~~A Mountain Wings Original #2217 ~~

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