Doing What the Doctor Says

Sometime back I fell while walking, doing extensive damage to my left hand. I was taken by ambulance to the hospital where the doctor was more than an hour and a half in surgical procedures to save the hand, and the use of it. Upon leaving the hospital three days later, I was given specific instructions of the care that I must take concerning that hand.

    Now a question: At what time do you think that I started obeying those instructions? Did I say to myself that I would get around to it “one of these days!” Or, did I say to myself that I really didn’t care what the doctor said, I would do things in my way, when I wanted to do them? Another question: If I should have said those things, what would be your thoughts of my sensibility? If I wanted to save the hand, I must follow immediately the doctor’s instructions.

    What is my point? Just this: How long have you known what your Creator has said about what you must do, and how you must live in order to have the salvation of your soul? Why have you not followed those instructions (Mark 16:16)?