But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. Matthew 8:22.
There's plenty of places to go to get psychiatric help. There are plenty of good Christian counselors out there. I'll be happy to pray with you for your specific need. But it has to be out in the open where it can be seen. And the Word of God is excellent at doing that.
For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. Hebrews 4:12.
We're not talking about a dentist's drill here. That's way crude in comparison. Saying that the Word was sharper than a sword was the best they could come up with back then. If they would have had the language they would have said surgeon's scalpel. But it's even sharper than that. Sharper than a laser beam.
It goes on: And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:13.
I remember one time my mom took my brother and I to the Dr's office. We each had to get a shot. There was a Godzilla double feature playing at the movie theater that afternoon and if we were good and didn't cry we'd get to go see Godzilla. Not just any Godzilla. Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla.
When that nurse drove that needle into my arm everything in me wanted to scream. I clenched my teeth and held my breath for a good five minutes it seemed like. My arm hurt so bad I sat through most of the double feature cross eyed. I couldn't even tell you much of what happened.
But I remember that MechaGodzilla had laser beam eyes. That was cool! Lasers hadn't even been invented back then.
To this day I don't know why that needle had to hurt so bad. I sure hope the nurse knew. But the point I'm trying to make here is that when Jesus said to the man, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead (Matthew 8:22) He knew exactly how much pain the guy was in.
He suffered every ounce of pain that you and I suffer when He hung on the cross. That rules out the question of whether He was being insensitive or not.
Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our
transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace
was upon him
and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:4,5 NIV
And that's worth celebrating!
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By Grace,
Travis P. Dickerson
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