Health Care- Why all the fret?

Health Care - Why all the fret?

In the past few days I’ve encountered and read of many people who’ve been fretting over the supposed eventual passing of the Health Care reform act. Some fretters having reached a view that this is the end of our government as we know it. What is surprising, at least to me, is that many who fret and worry are professing brothers & sisters in Christ. While I may not agree with some of the presented points regarding health care and who could ever read and comprehend it all then discern its impacts good or bad I don’t know, but not me. One thing for sure is that all of these impacts good or bad are in the future or tomorrow and may or may not ever happen as plan. So, to this point Jesus said “don’t worry about tomorrow”

I was reminded, to some extent, of this last night as I watched the first two episodes of the restart for the ABC show Flash Forward. If you’ve not watched the show it’s a story where every human on earth blacks-out and gets what they believe is a glimpse of their future for a specific date and time. The storyline is how this affects each of these individuals in their life. In the part 2 of the restart premier it opens with the story of a window-washer who before the blackout is getting on the platform over hanging the top of a skyscraper and just as he does the blackout happens and just before his partner can secure his security line. In the scene he falls the platform lowers on one end and he begins to slide out falling to his expected death. Then we see the end of his security line dragging across the top of the building then the edge then along the platform then at the last possible moment the hook catching on the very end of the platform saving the window-washers life. In his black out he had a vision of him preaching to a large crowd and he decided to act on his vision. Later in the episode this window-washer now a spiritual man is meeting with one of the other characters who is struggling with her black-out vision where she is being drowned and expresses that she felt during her vision that she deserved it and that it was God punishing her. The window-washer now preacher tells her that we can’t fully understand any picture by a just a glimpse he offers her that perhaps she was being baptized and then tells here that in the moment of Jesus crucifixion that his Disciples were evidently very confused and you could easily suspect horrified by these events. This was because they were focused on the details of the temporal moment and had not grasped the big picture. The point and message here is that we have to be big picture people we can’t get distressed over events that we feel are horrific in the moment.

We know from Paul’s writings in Romans that all governments and government leaders are “allowed” to exist by God. This does not make government or nations divine, there is only one intended divine nation of people and this is “Israel” or those chosen by God. The Israel of the Old Testament cashed in God’s plan for them by demanding for an earthly kingship, thus government. If you studied the Old Testament you know what this got them, it was a big ole’ mess.

What do we have today in our human kingdom is a big ole’ mess, but why should we be shocked, we’ve done no better than the Israel of old looking and putting their hope & faith in a temporal glimpse for things. God never intended that his people “Israel” should need a earthly kingdom. If Christians in this country will be honest it has been the failure of the church that has created this predicament we find ourselves in with health care. It is the responsibility of the church to care for the needy and we have advocated this to a flawed earthly government expecting heavenly results. The good news is that no matter how bad things might apparently be God is in control of the big picture and even if we wake up tomorrow under whatever government authority. To those in Christ “We are Israel” and we have hope and faith in God’s great plan keeping our eye on the big picture, so do not fret about glimpses or what tomorrow may or may not bring.