A very attractive and healthy-looking young woman walked into the doctor’s office one day to have a routine physical examination. The doctor examined her a bit and then began to ask some routine questions about herself and her family’s health. One question he asked was, “Is there any history of cardiovascular disease in your family? In other words, does anyone in your family have trouble with their heart or blood vessels?”
“Oh yes. None of the women in my family lived more than 35 years.”
“None of them?” asked the doctor in surprise.
“None,” she answered.
“Well, we’d certainly better check your cholesterol level,” said the doctor.
Cholesterol is a necessary substance that everyone manufactures in his or her own body. We also get it from some of the foods we eat. It forms a part of the membrane of every cell; the problems come when we get too much of it and it begins to clog our blood vessels and puts us at high risk of having a heart attack.
When the laboratory tested this young woman’s blood, they found her cholesterol to be over 400 more than twice as high as it should have been! She looked healthy and felt healthy, but regardless of looks and feelings, she was in great danger. Her cholesterol level had to be brought down to 200 or less immediately.
Neither you nor I may have a cholesterol problem, but every one of us has something that puts us at certain risk of death. And the Great Physician says the level must be brought down to zero right now. The problem is the sin in our lives, for “there is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:1010As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:10)). Yet not one sin will ever enter heaven to spoil it as sin spoiled the earth and started it on the downward course to disaster that it is still on today.
For that healthy-looking young woman, the doctor had a remedy. He gave her some pills that inhibited the manufacture of cholesterol within her own body and soon her cholesterol level dropped to normal. The doctor saved her life!
The Lord has a wonderful remedy for us too. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:99If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)). Christ has already died for us, and if we trust Him and accept His payment for our sins, the level of our sins in God’s sight is immediately brought down to zero. I have accepted His remedy; the Lord Jesus has saved my soul.
Have you taken God’s remedy? Have you trusted the Lord Jesus to wash away your sins in His precious blood? If you do, you will bring glory to God and happiness to your own soul.