This past weekend I was honored to visit Rochester, Minnesota for the second time in a month. Rochester is the home of the world renowned Mayo Clinic. They describe themselves on their website in this way:
Mayo Clinic, St. Mary's Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital form the largest integrated medical center in the world, providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment in virtually all medical and surgical specialties. More than 350,000 patients from all walks of life seek answers at Mayo Clinic each year.
Daily, people make the choice to come to Mayo Clinic to help get things that have gone wrong with their bodies made "right" . Sunday, after worship services at the Rochester church of Christ, I visited with a few women who have been and are being blessed by the services offered at Mayo Clinic.
- One woman, who lives in Rochester, said that her body did not work "the right way" from an early age. Many years of her young life revolved around the grand mal seizures that controlled her body. This made life very hard. She never knew when her body would "malfunction" and cause her to have a seizure. Then, 10 years ago, a stimulator was implanted in her body. For the last 10 years that same stimulator has done it's job and allowed her body to function in "the right way", with no seizures. She kept pointing up to the heavens and saying, "It is only God who got me through and has made this turn out like it has."
- Another woman, I visited with, is at the Mayo (from out of state) because her heart has not worked in the right way for a while. She is scheduled to have major heart surgery on July 9th to get her heart to once again work in "the right way".
- A young woman, from a southern state, has a disorder that causes her body to continually create tumors. She is currently a visitor at Rochester seeking treatment for this debilitating challenge. If only her body would work in an orderly manner, in the way God designed it... "the right way"... but it doesn't.... so, she is at Mayo seeking help for her body to go from disorder to order... from tumor-ridden to tumor free.
.All three of these women have experienced the desire, determination, perseverance, focus, craving, and seeking for their bodies to work "the right way". They have made the choices to do what it takes to make things go right. It has not and is not an easy path, but they are thankful just the same.
As I thought about the many people who had come to the Mayo, just that week, pursuing help to make things "right" for their bodies, I couldn't help but ask "What about spiritual healing?"
Do we, as a people experience the desire, determination, perseverance, focus, craving, and seeking for our souls/spirits to work "the right way"? There are so many choices out there!
In Matthew 5, Jesus speaks the 4th Be-attitude,
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for RIGHTeousness,
for they will be filled."
What is RIGHTeousness? Webster's definition is:
- morally upright without guilt or sin
- in accordance with virtue or morality
- morally justifiable
- Christ-likeness
Aha! Maybe the better question is, "WHO is RIGHTeousness?"
1 Corinthians 1:30, speaks of Jesus in this way,
"He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made:
- our wisdom
- our righteousness and
- sanctification and
- redemption..."
Thank You, God, that when my desire, determination, perseverance, focus, craving, and seeking turn to "hungering and thirsting for righteousness" ... that means that I am hungering and thirsting for Jesus!
BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO
HUNGER AND THIRST FOR JESUS....
So grateful today, Jesus,
that You are our Righteousness!
BLESSED! OH, THE JOY!
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