Responsibilities of Medical Workers
The fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians contains lessons
given us by God. In this chapter one speaks under the inspiration
of God, one to whom in holy vision God had given instruction. He
describes the distribution of God’s gifts to His workers, saying: “He
gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and
some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the
work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we
all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ.”
Ephesians 4:11-13
. Here we are shown that God gives to
every man his work, and in doing this work man is fulfilling his part
of God’s great plan.
This lesson should be carefully considered by our physicians and
medical missionaries. God established His instrumentalities among
a people who recognize the laws of the divine government. The sick
are to be healed through the combined effort of the human and the
divine. Every gift, every power, that Christ promised His disciples He
bestows upon those who will serve Him faithfully. And He who gives
mental capabilities, and who entrusts talents to the men and women
who are His by creation and redemption, expects that these talents and
capabilities will be increased by use. Every talent must be employed
in blessing others and thus bringing honor to God. But physicians
have been led to suppose that their capabilities were their individual
property. The powers given them for God’s work they have used in
branching out into lines of work to which God has not appointed them.
Satan works every moment to find an opportunity for stealing in.
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He tells the physician that his talents are too valuable to be bound up
among Seventh-day Adventists, that if he were free he could do a very
large work. The physician is tempted to feel that he has methods which
he can carry independent of the people for whom God has wrought
that He might place them above every other people on the face of the
earth. But let not the physician feel that his influence would increase if
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