Better

 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 7
 
“They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Mark 2:1717When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Mark 2:17)).
I recently asked a co-worker about his “standard” response to the common greeting, “How’re you doing?” As I would pass him in the halls and ask him this question, he always responded, “Better.” That made me wonder if something had been wrong with him.
So I asked him about it. His answer was exercising to me. He said that he answers “Better” to the generic “How are you” question because it has the same effect on most other people that it had on me. Hearing that he is better, they stop and ask him what was wrong. Their question allows him to tell them that he was on his way to a lost eternity in hell, but now he’s saved by faith in Christ and on his way to heaven!
The next time someone asks, “How’re you doing?” let’s remember our blessed Lord Jesus, the Great Physician, and how it is that He has made us better.
T. Bookman