“I am the Lord, your healer.” (Exodus 15:26)

“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Luke 5:31-32)

We are now going into “flu” season. Already people are starting to fear the dreaded disease, wondering if the vaccine this year is going to cover the variations that pop up. Or will we find ourselves flat on our backs for over a week once more, unable to eat, work, or function.

It’s a frightening experience, especially when you thought you’ve taken every precaution. Including swaddling your hands in hand-wipes.

But the flu has nothing on some of the diseases of Jesus’ day. No known physician could cure leprosy, blindness, consumption, plague. In fact, we now know from demographics experts that in the first…