To this we could also add healing of the mind, emotions and spirit. Knighton writes, We bother because God, as revealed in Jesus Christ, is the only true source of goodness and joy in life. We bother because healthy people are better able to direct their energies toward living in a way that accords with God s purpose to display His glory by being gracious to His people. We bother because God will ask us to account for whether or not we extended the grace we received in a way that points others to the source of our gifts. In short, we bother because medicine can be a means to the end that someone will live in fellowship with God.
Health care is a supremely human enterprise.
It is also divine. God comes to health care professionals daily as the one true source of all the healing with which they are so busily engaged. At the same time, God comes to doctors and nurses as the One who stands before them naked, in need of the healing powers . . . If they fail to recognize God in their midst, health care will lose its soul. One day about two years ago, I leaned against the counter of the same nurses station and watched patients flow through the clinic.