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Chapter 7—The Co-Working of the Divine and the
Human
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In the ministry of healing the physician is to be a co-worker
with Christ. The Saviour ministered to both the soul and the body.
The gospel which He taught was a message of spiritual life and
of physical restoration. Deliverance from sin and the healing of
disease were linked together. The same ministry is committed to
the Christian physician. He is to unite with Christ in relieving both
the physical and spiritual needs of his fellow men. He is to be to
the sick a messenger of mercy, bringing to them a remedy for the
diseased body and for the sin-sick soul.
Christ is the true head of the medical profession. The chief
Physician, He is at the side of every God-fearing practitioner who
works to relieve human suffering. While the physician uses nature’s
remedies for physical disease, he should point his patients to Him
who can relieve the maladies of both the soul and the body. That
which physicians can only aid in doing, Christ accomplishes. They
endeavor to assist nature’s work of healing; Christ Himself is the
healer. The physician seeks to preserve life; Christ imparts life.
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The Source of Healing
The Saviour in His miracles revealed the power that is continu-
ally at work in man’s behalf, to sustain and to heal him. Through
the agencies of nature, God is working, day by day, hour by hour,
moment by moment, to keep us alive, to build up and restore us.
When any part of the body sustains injury, a healing process is at
once begun; nature’s agencies are set at work to restore soundness.
But the power working through these agencies is the power of God.
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All life-giving power is from Him. When one recovers from disease,
it is God who restores him.
Sickness, suffering, and death are work of an antagonistic power.
Satan is the destroyer; God is the restorer.
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