Reflections | IMAGES OF SCRIPTURE

Listen as Monsignor Don Fischer reflects on how God can help, but only when you let Him.

Good morning. I want to talk to you about images that Scripture presents to us about who Jesus is. We know the big ones. Good Shepherd, the one who sacrificed his life and gave it. Gave it up for us, who gave his life up for us so that we could be free of sin. All these images are beautiful, but one of them that you don't often hear about is when Jesus compared himself to being a doctor.

I love that image of Jesus, the doctor. And one of the things I'm realizing now is that the relationship that you have with God and God is best manifested in this beautiful human being called Jesus. His concern was always for you to be whole and to be complete. We call it holy. His miracles were always making eyes work and ears work and voice, to be able to say, hands that would get the work done, legs that would take you somewhere. It's like he's there to make you into everything you're intended to be. 

And sin has this insidious desire to stop that process, to keep you in some disease, some sickness, some anxiety, some worry. And that's evil because it ships away at the beautiful thing that we have in this relationship with God. Because if we think God is in charge of everything, then if things aren't going well and we're not feeling well, we think somehow God has either abandoned us or he's not pleased with us in some way. In some way. 

So when you go to a doctor, what do you do? He does examinations. Yeah. But the thing usually they count on or the first thing they ask you is what's going on? Why are you here? Why did you come here? And that's such a beautiful prayer to Jesus when you think about it. Because when you go into a moment of reflection with him and you're not feeling full and whole, like you'd like to feel, and you go to him and and you say, “Hey, this is the way I feel. I feel afraid. I feel a lot of shame. I feel angry that somehow life isn't fair.” 

Whatever it is. You can say that to him. And then wait. The hardest part. Wait for an answer. Can you imagine a doctor who knows everything about you, how you were? He would hear a symptom. Shame. Anger. Fear. He would know exactly what he needs to ask you in terms of deeper questions. That's what he'll do. If you ask him to show you where the pain is, what's out of balance? What's making you not feel whole? He will show you. Otherwise he would be a doctor who sits there and says, I know what you need. I know the medicine I can give you, but I don't feel like I will.

That's impossible. He loves you way too much. But some people just don't want to go to the doctor.

Have a good day.

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