Friday, 9 December 2011

confusingly opened.

What would you tell me or even think if I tell you that walking in certain circumstances, manner, in a certain mind frame will deem you a sinner.
We all (probably) have once sung (most probably a lot of times instead of once) in church songs like "Above All", "Jesus, Lover of my soul". I have. I even led worship with those songs before. I enjoy these type of songs most. They bring out the emotional state of mindset we want to have, intend to have, and probably hope to reach during worship. It makes focusing on God much more easier than without them. Worse would be when we talk about them, expressing certain knowledge about these topics making us hippocrites.
Winter has fallen on the UK. I'm excited to see the first snow of my life. Or probably even hold them. Oh, I wish I had come to England with a much better conditioned body than the one I have, then I can most probably enjoy Christmas much more compared to the way I'm taking it now. Can't even walk across the streets without feeling pain in my back, which brings me to my next state of mind. To seek a doctor or not. Like everyone would naturally point out, there is no where recorded in the bible circumstances, law, statute, or commandments that says we are not allowed to go and seek a doctor or physicians to look to our physical needs. But the bible at the same time did speak in the book of James 5, that if anyone is sick, he must go to his church elders and confess his sins, seek prayer. The pastor will pray for the person and God will forgive the person, and the person will be forgiven of his sins and his sicknesses will be healed.
This presents a kind of clear directive as to what to do. A clear indication as to what is expected of a Christian that instead of going to the physicist, you go to your church pastor. Still, the argument seems somewhat open ended. What about circumstances where the pastor is also a doctor? Or when the doctor is some kind of practitioner that works in the areas of that particular need? Would it be wrong if the pastor gives treatment as a doctor? Would it then pronounce the circumstance alright to seek a doctor who is a pastor? Ultimately, the question would be is it right to seek for medical practicing aid?
Interestingly, the bible has left this area open to thoughts. (I personally have a formed opinion about this area though) Instead of addressing the area of medical practicing as the problem, the bible address the issue of faith as a problem instead. Where be your faith had you seek a medical practicing person to act as remedy against where would your faith be positioned if your position was sustained through prayer, prayer, and more prayer. Jesus during the time of his ministry on earth never condemned any doctors while he go round healing people, but he commented on people whom never consulted them instead. The centurion, the woman with back issues, the paralytic. He also commented a lot on people who "lack faith". His disciples, his home town, which brings up the area that provokes a lot of thought. If what God has placed up in the hierarchy of what he likes, somewhere right at the top being faith, what then construes the absolute faith that he delights?

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