is the doctor in?

Mark 2:13-17

We live in an age where everyone is a specialist.  The medical field is crawling with specialist with strange names that rival the scientific names of most insects. 

I believe specialist in the medical field are slowly occupying their own classification system within the species genera Homo Sapiens. 

There are nephrologists, diabetologists, dermotologists, anesthesiologists, endocrinologists, gastroenterologists, hematologists, rhinologists, urogynecologists and the list goes on.  The key to finding the right specialist is having the correct diagnosis.  You hate to find yourself in the office of a urologist (someone who deals with the urinary aspect of the body) when all you needed was ear-nose-throat doctor to tend to some infection in your sinus cavity.

When you ask is the doctor in, you may have to brace self and be a little more specific and hope your insurance covers it. 

In Today's gospel Jesus reminds us that when it comes to sin He certainly is acutely trained to handle the situation.  He is a sintoligist.    

All you need is a little dose of humility to recognize that you are not as well as you think you are.  A little recognition of your own brokenness, a proper diagnosis of  sinflamation of the soul, viceitis, and indeed Jesus will come in.  

The perfect prescription to fight the disease of the soul involves confession of your sin (1 Jn 1:9) to those qualified (Jn 20:21-23) the successors of the apostles, the ordained ministers,  bishops and priest, who carry with them the authority to offer forgiveness and mercy to those who are in need.  The sacrament of confession, as set up by Jesus, certainly carries his legacy, his specialty of fighting sin, being the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29).  

The lamb was slain (Rev 5:) and in deed through Him sins are removed and God's glory fills the the universe.  The bride of the lamb, the new Jerusalem, (Rev 21:9) shall remain spotless for she will be the one who is founded on the 12 apostles and those who shall enter the gates shall find their names written in the lamb's book of life (Rev 21:27) and these are those who humbled themselves and were of want of the physician (Mk 2:17).