May 10, 2022

“Jesus answered, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” (Mark 2:17)

Jesus could have been responding to any number of yammering voices.  My popcorn bag tells me that “when your spirit is guided by wellness, you are your own guru.” Another pernicious, perpetuated message that we are basically A-OK and with a little balance here and meditation there we will be fit as a fiddle.

As C. S. Lewis says, “Christ takes it for granted that men are bad.” Jeremiah calls our hearts “desperately sick”, and therefore in need of the Great Physician. The long and the short of it? We need a Savior, not a guru.

“Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Proper 18 – BCP)