Notes for15 July 2020

Have you really ever met a man without illness? It is not to say that we all have something paining us, but each of us has something wrong somewhere; it can be a physical defect, quite as it can be a spiritual infirmity … So, we don't divide people between the sick ones and the healthy, but we divide them between those who feel sick and those who feel healthy. That is why everyone indeed needs the doctor, even if there are some who think that they don't need him, and consequently do not go to the doctor. But we also meet various categories of people among those who feel sick; some people don't believe the normal medicine, don't trust the doctors and so they visit sorcerers, wizards, charlatans and other "specialists" of the same category and finally become slaves of their own health, to be more precise slaves of their disease and this without knowing it.

The analogy between both verses read today is clear. There are not sinless people, and Jesus came for each of us. But some people don't consider themselves as sinners, and others don't believe that Jesus can deliver them of sin and his corollaries, and they look for something else. The Healing is stretched out at us, but we have to visit the doctor in order to receive it. To be conscious of being spiritually sick and call out to God for a spiritual cure is what we call repentance.