Section: The Work of the Physician (Chapters 7,8)

Section: The Work of the Physician 

(Chapters 7,8)

In the ministry of healing the physician is to be a co-worker with Christ.
-*-The Savior ministered to both the soul and the body.

The physician seeks to preserve life; 

Christ imparts life.

--The true physician is an educator.
--He it is who "forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies." Psalm 103:3, 4.
--Sickness, suffering, and death are work of an antagonistic power. Satan is the destroyer; God is the restorer. "I am the Lord that healeth thee." Exodus 15:26.
--Our Savior's words, "Come unto Me, . . . and I will give you rest" Matthew 11:28, are a prescription for the healing of physical, mental,

and spiritual ills.
--Knowing the Lord Jesus, it is the privilege of the Christian practitioner by prayer to invite His presence in the sickroom. Before performing a critical operation, let the physician ask for the aid of the Great Physician.
--As the mind of the sufferer is directed to the Savior, the peace of Christ fills his heart, and the spiritual health that comes to him is used as the helping hand of God in restoring the health of the body.
--Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power—these are the true remedies.
--Many transgress the laws of health through ignorance, and they need instruction. But the greater number know better than they do. Intemperance and crime, disease and wretchedness, are everywhere.

--The body is the only medium through which the mind and the soul are developed for the upbuilding of character. Hence it is that the adversary of souls directs his temptations to the enfeebling and degrading of the physical powers.
--In that ancient ritual which was the gospel in symbol, no blemished offering could be brought to God's altar. The sacrifice that was to represent Christ must be spotless. The word of God points to this as an illustration of what His children are to be—"a living sacrifice," "holy and without blemish," "well-pleasing to God." Romans 12:1, R.V., margin; Ephesians 5:27.
--One of the most deplorable effects of the original apostasy was the loss of man's power of self-control.
--If but one soul would have accepted the gospel of His grace, Christ would, to save that one, have chosen His life of toil and humiliation and His death of shame. If through our efforts one human being shall be uplifted and ennobled, fitted to shine in the courts of the Lord, have we not cause for rejoicing?

The desire of God for every human being is expressed in the words, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 

3 John 2.