So it is good to remind ourselves that the Holy Spirit is the life giver and the freedom giver. Which is why there is nothing more healing than being filled with the Holy Spirit. In our day modern medicine is constantly learning new ways to free our bodies to heal themselves. Last week we saw how there is now medication to free the body of a leper to recover from leprosy. If a stroke victim can get to hospital quick enough, there is an injection which frees the body to recover much more quickly.
Doctors can also provide some relief for people with psychiatric problems.
What doctors are less able to do is to free our minds to be like little children again. Little children are enthusiastic, they are warm and loving, they love to play and they love to learn new things, and they quickly forget a quarrel. But our adult minds are easily paralyzed. We can be paralyzed with anxiety. Writers who have been writing thousands of words a day suddenly get writer's block.