The Sickness.

Do they know? Are they aware?
These souls all around me.
Rushing from one place to another.
Discussing plans for the weekend, where they will holiday.

Are they distracted enough to avoid it?
Are they aware of the sickness?
They enjoy the pleasures of this life.
They hustle through the day without a care.

The diagnosis becomes known to some.
They search for a remedy.
And look in all the wrong places.

Many claim to have the cure.
But they, too, are just as sick.
Blindly leading themselves and their patients to death.

I too was blind, but now I see.
I thank You for opening my eyes to this despair.
That I am sick and in great need of the ultimate physician.

I am not enlightened or special.
It is only by Your mercy that I became aware of this sickness.
And it is through You alone that I can be healed.

No one is too sick to be saved.
You did not come for the healthy.
They do not need a doctor.
You came for the sickest of the sick.

Thanks and praise be to You.

(Mark 2:17)