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Chapter 7—The Co-working of the Divine and the
Human
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In the ministry of healing, physicians are to be co-workers with
Christ. The Savior ministered to both soul and body. The gospel that
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 Christian physicians. They are to
unite with Christ in relieving both the physical and spiritual needs of
humanity. They are to be messengers of mercy to the sick, bringing
to them a remedy for the diseased body and the sin-sick soul.
Christ is the true head of the medical profession. The chief Physi-
cian, He is at the side of every God-fearing practitioner who works
to relieve human suffering. While physicians use nature’s remedies
for physical disease, they should point patients to Him who can
relieve the maladies of both soul and 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. Physicians
seek to preserve life; Christ imparts life.
The Source of Healing
The Savior in His miracles revealed the power that is continually
at work in behalf of human beings, to sustain and to heal them.
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 begun
at once; nature’s agencies are set at work to restore soundness. But
the power working through these agencies is the power of God. All
life-giving power is from Him. When people recover from disease,
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it is God who restores them.
Sickness, suffering, and death are the work of an antagonistic
power. Satan is the destroyer; God is the restorer.
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