Pills and Prescriptions

            I once had a rubber pill about the size of a softball, but pill shaped, red and white.  It was a hand squeezer to strengthen your muscles.  I take about ten pills in the morning, two pills at noon and three pills in the evening plus Tylenol should I need it for pain.  Do you ever wish you could find a gigantic pill that would fix everything? Wouldn't it be nice if there were pills for loneliness, frustration, sadness or discouragement? Well, God has given us, not a pill, but His own Son as payment for our sin. This should be the same thing as a pill for us, because it has the remedy for all of our problems.   He has not only given us the pill, He has also given us His personal prescription on how to administer the pill in our own lives.  The prescription is the Bible.  It is amazing how much brighter the light is the closer you get close to God. It is like when Isaiah was so close to God that he realized how sinful that he really was (Isaiah 6). I went to the eye doctor just a few days ago,  and had to have my eyes dilated. Boy, was the light ever bright after that. The doctor gave me some special plastic to put around my eyes under my glasses. The truth was, without the plastic, I was not able to behold the light that was outside. The same thing is true about God's holiness. The closer you get to it, the more blinding it is.  When you turn on a really bright light, it exposes a lot of things that you may not know exists.  Things that we thought were white turn out to appear almost dirty in comparison. It has been rumored that Martin Luther called John 3:16 the "Golden Text of the Bible." "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life."

In some sense, that is the pill that cures everything. But, for some, it is a hard pill to take. Some feel that they have to do something in order to inherit salvation. They feel that they have to do some penance in order to earn their way into heaven. Yet, as Isaiah 64:6 says, "All our righteousness is as filthy rags..." So, with nothing else to do to earn salvation, we must depend solely upon the finished work of Christ on the cross for our sins. If you are frustrated, lonely, sad or discouraged, turn to Him who has done it all for you. Your spiritual eyes will behold the brightness of God's holiness and you may say as Paul did, "...for I am the chief of sinners."  Praise God for His Holiness.  God has given us the pill and He has given us the prescription.  Now all we have to do is take the medicine that He has prescribed.