Every city has at least one. Those blue “H” signs — the sign for a hospital. The signs serve as signals letting you know help isn’t far away.
What an amazing analogy for the Church.
Is there a better trauma center than the Church?
Of course not.
Jesus established His Church to be a trauma center, a place for people to come for healing.
In the Book of John, Chapter 11, the resurrection of Lazarus is recorded. After Jesus called Lazarus from the grave, He told the people standing around to loose him by taking his grave clothes off.
Lazarus was bound, gagged and probably hopping around like an idiot trying to walk wrapped like a mummy. That had to be a funny sight. I bet he even fell down a time or two.
Do you think Jesus could have called Lazarus from the grave without leaving the mummy wraps tied around his cold dead body? Of course. Jesus was giving us a picture of the Church.
When someone comes from death to life, it is the responsibility of Christians to help them take off their grave clothes.
People come to the Church with problems, insecurities, sins and all kinds of trauma. We are responsible for their growth. We loose the grave clothes. Sinful people are bloody, bruised, dirty, smelly and bound. You know, kind of like they’ve been dead.
Be mindful this week that God may bring one of the walking wounded or the dead your direction.
I know (the movie) “Zombieland” is huge right now, but don’t take the opportunity to blast them. Take the opportunity to be the doctor God gifted you to be, and take them to your trauma center.
After all, He is the Great Physician.
Eric Grizzle
Mobile, Ala.
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