THE MEDICINE THAT HEALS

THE MEDICINE THAT HEALS

                Most medicines originally came from plants and herbs and natural substances. They find a plant or herb that has healing properties, they isolate the property in the plant that does the healing, then they synthesize it and come up with its chemical equivalent and put it in a pill and then give it to people that have the corresponding ailment.

                The problem with this process is that you end up largely with medicines that treat symptoms rather than addressing the underlying causes of the disease.

                Let’s take aspirin for an example (And thank God for aspirin. What would we do without it?) You have a headache, so you take two aspirin and it masks the pain so that the headache often goes away. So you have treated the symptom, which is the pain, but you have not addressed the underlying cause of your headache. So you are doomed to take aspirin for the rest of your life without ever getting to the root cause of your headaches.

                This is a lot like today’s Gospel. In many churches, especially the seeker friendly type churches, the Gospel has been synthesized into sound bites that temporarily make us feel good, but don’t address the deeper causative issues of our problems.

                So we have a huge crowd of Christians that have the same symptoms as the world. They go to church one day and to their psychiatrist the next day for pills to mask the pain of their inner turmoil. They live with a constant background of music, or radio, or TV hoping that the constant chatter and noise will help to mask the pain as well. Then next week they head back to church for their weekly feel good pill.

                You pay your Psychiatrist $80 an hour to tell you that you are okay and that your problems are probably someone else’s fault and then you pay your tithes, to get buoyed up with feel good sound bites that once again make you feel  okay for an hour or so but do not address the underlying cause of your anxiety and inner turmoil.

                Behind nearly all Christian psychosis lies a root cause that is rarely ever addressed. Depression and anxiety and fear all come from on underlying symptom:  THE OLD MAN IS STILL ALIVE AND HE IS AT WAR WITH THE NEW MAN.

                Jesus had the cure for that underlying cause when He said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it; and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.” John 12:24, 25.

                The old man must go into the ground and die, so that the new man can spring forth unto life. And to the extent that we cherish the old man and keep him alive, to that extent are we at war within ourselves.  And like Jesus also said,” You cannot serve two masters.”

                Most of the symptoms in the church today come as a result of the fact that the old man has not been put to death. We go to the psychiatrist and we go to the pastor for more feel good medicine, but the only real and  true cure lies in the thing that we are most unwilling to let go of…the old man.

                We are coming rapidly into a time in earth’s history when there will be a major separation. It will happen in nations, in churches and in individuals and every nation and church and individual will fall on one side or the other in this coming shaking.

                In September 23rd of this year, whether there is a rapture or not, I believe that there is going to be a huge paradigm shift. Judgment is coming and man’s inner life will be exposed and the church’s lack of sound medicine will be exposed and the nation’s rebellion and sin will be exposed and God will judge the earth with tribulation such as the world has never seen.

                Your best medicine right now is to finally put that old man to death and to learn to live by the Spirit and not by the flesh. Living by Spirit and Truth will remove that constant sense of schizophrenia from your life. It will reconcile you to God and He will heal your wounds and bring you into peace no matter what is going on in the world. Time is short and what we do now is of utmost importance. Deal with the old man now, by the grace of God. Stop that inner war that has raged in you between the old man and the new man. Let the old man be crucified with Christ so that you can also be raised up with Him. He wants to be your new life. He is the Medicine that heals.