Tomorrow begins my third week in something called "Primary Care Selective" which is a fancy way of saying, "General medicine for people of all ages". I am working and learning at a large non-profit, faith-based organization which aims to provide health for the uninsured. The aspirations of this group are vast and they have helped hundreds of thousands of patients over the many, many years during which they have operated.
Having said this, there is an enormous gap in the care provided at this otherwise noble place. They believe health of spirit can be attained through a nebulous definition of "faith". Put succinctly, they believe as long as a patient exercises "faith" in whatsoever manner that individual desires, health of spirit will ensue. I respectfully and emphatically disagree for I have learned not "...all roads lead to Rome".
The spirit (heart) of man is profoundly corrupt, poisoned by selfishness and blindness. We all have done or contemplated terrible things. Being a Jewish Christian (Messianic Jew) I know, beyond all doubt, the only solution for this self-defeating state is Jesus. Jesus, alone, is the answer to the health needs of our spirits and souls.
I have had the privilege, over many decades, of meeting people of nearly every conceivable ethnicity and religion: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, Wiccan, hard-core satanist, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastorian, New Age, Roman Catholic, indigenous Tribal Polytheism, Latter Day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Alien worship (yup, it's out there), Masons, and on and on. I have had the honor of sitting down with these folks and learning where they come from and what they believe. The One Universal Factor that stands out is this: there is no One like Jesus. He alone is unique among the figures of the world. Trust in Him alone brings lasting, radical transformation and healing for the self-stained spirit of humanity. I have witnessed this in my own life and in the lives of countless others regardless of their backgrounds.
As a future health-care provider it would be wrong of me to rob my patients of the opportunity to know how to be fully healthy; it would be unethical of me to not offer to them the option of obtaining true healing of their whole person. No, I will not now, nor have I ever in the past, pressure my patients into this faith, nor will I ever deny care simply because someone chooses not to believe. I would, however, be the worst physician if I neglected sharing this profound fact: Yeshua (Jesus, יֵשׁוּעַ, Iesu, Jésus, Ісус, 耶稣, Ιησούς, Иисус, 예수, عيسى) alone is needed for full health. May we never forget this.
He is true medicine.
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