Matthew 9:9-13
The Healthy Do Not Need the Good Doctor, but Sinners Do
9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
Luke 7:21-23
Jesus Heals Many
21 At that very time Jesus cured many who had diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind. 22 So he replied to the messengers, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 23 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”
Matthew 9:27-31
Jesus Heals Two Blind Men
27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
28 When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
“Yes, Lord,” they replied.
29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith let it be done to you”; 30 and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” 31 But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
Acts 4:1-22
Salvation is Found in No One Else
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
Jesus is often called the Great Physician or the Good Doctor...When He came to earth He did a lot of healing miracles...Thus He has been rightfully called these titles...Jesus offers us not only great healing powers, but great powers of hope...He gives great hope..He gives our faith hope....As He told the two blind men, they were healed according to their faith...They believed in Him and that He could heal them...Their faith helped them heal, but Jesus' divine power and Love for them did the rest (of their healing)...
When Jesus is recruiting the tax collector, Matthew, to be a disciple, He talks about the people who need a doctor...He tells us that it is not the healthy that need a doctor or physician, but the sick...And while He healed many who had different diseases, sicknesses and evil spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind, He uses His Great Physician skills also to heal our sinful nature...And this is a great thing...He is the One and Only One that gives us our salvation...Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved...
Jesus is this Great Physician, because He knows all our symptoms and all of our sins...And unlike the regular doctors we see, whom we have to communicate our symptoms to get better -Jesus knows who we are and what is wrong with us...He knows of our health problems, and He knows of our sin problems...His healing powers are like no others...
Like the doctors we see today, we must communicate to him or her what is wrong with us and our symptoms...Even though It is also good that we communicate through prayer to Jesus of the things we need and want...Our prayers show that we believe in Him...He wants to help us...Communicating to Him with our needs is something we need to do on a daily (if not more basis), as we build and maintain our personal relationship with Him...