Robo-Doctor or Great Physician

Medicine has come a long, long way.  The da Vinci Si Surgical System machine here looks menacing, perhaps, even a bit scary, but the robot remains under the control of humans at all times.

Imagine yourself in the OR (operating room).  You’ve been in pain for weeks and finally a diagnosis has been reached, a date for your operation is scheduled and you’re on the table.  You look up and see this thing coming down over you.  Scared?  Me too!

By 9 am the robot has already given you an anesthetic and has already carved out an entire human organ.  The patient’s gallbladder, riddled with infection, is gone, and in a darkened operating room, this machine is going back in for seconds.  Did I just say seconds?  Yep!  A second helping.

Its next target is a tumor, buried in the kidney.  The robot arms are fanned out over you like a huge insect.  Not to fear, these arms twitch and wiggle and become tiny inside you.  It’s tiny, dexterous manipulators slice and burn through fatty connective tissue, maneuvering around veins, arteries, and nerves, clearing a path to a specific cancer with precision no human could muster.  It disintegrates the cancer mass instantly.  It is controlled by algorithms, advanced medicines, precision instrumentation and much more.  The da Vinci Si Surgical System machine is also controlled by two or more highly qualified surgeons.  Is the robot A Great Healer?  Naaah!  Just a robot. Yet, an integral part of what medicine is able to do today. The surgeon’s role is radically changing and is different today.  

Humanity is in need of a physician!  There is an order to the compound names of God as they appear in Scripture.  It’s a progressive revelation of Himself to meet our every need.  From Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will see and provide, to Jehovah-Rophi, the Lord will heal.  As Israel was delivered out of Egypt and healed, we follow the same pattern.  We need deliverance from sin, and healing from its effects.  The Hebrew word for heal is translated as physician in Jeremiah 8:22.  God healeth our diseases, spiritual as well as physical (Psalm 103:3).  God heals the broken in heart (Psalm 147:3).   God heals the backslider from his backslidings (Jeremiah 3:22).  “I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Exodus 15:26).  It doesn’t come without a great price.  “By whose stripes you were healed".  1 Peter 2:24. 

We need to be healed, we need to be saved, we need to praise Him, and we need The Great Physician.  “Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”  Jeremiah 17:14