Surgical Repair

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Surgical Repair

So far we have looked at Lent as “road repair” and as “corrected vision”. I have a couple more comparisons, and then we’ll use those as sort of sub-topics for the rest of Lent.

As soon as I finish writing this, I’m off to the hospital for surgery. Nothing life threatening; I have a tear in a muscle that the surgeon is going to, Lord willing, repair. Left unattended, this tear would get worse, longer, wider, and making the surrounding tissue, and me as a whole, weaker.

That is what sin has done to the human race and that’s what it does to us as individuals. Sin tears away at who we are, and it is, indeed, life threatening. Left unattended, this it gets worse, it gets longer, wider, and makes us weaker, and eventually kills us; “…sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” (James 1:15)

But Jesus is not called the Great Physician simply as some sort of metaphor. Nor is that term restricted to physical healing that He absolutely supplies. It also applies, even more importantly, to the healing from sin, that only He can provide.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. Romans 5:19


Sin = damage.
Righteousness = repair.

How has sin hurt you? This season of Lent let us each look for that damage, and look to God for repair.

Until tomorrow, Pastor Jim