SPIRITUAL PHARMACY

It started late last night…Heidi started to not feel quite right and said that she thought she was getting sick. She went to bed early. When I finally came to bed, hours after her, she was in bad shape. She was running such a high fever that I couldn’t even touch her. I tried to rub her back and actually yanked my hand back as if I had touched a hot stove. She was burning up.

She had a rough night of restlessness, but still felt a little better this morning. But that didn’t last very long. She kept on getting weaker and weaker and eventually had to lay down to rest around lunch time. After lunch, I put the boys down for bed and went to the store to get some Vitamin C and Garlic tablets. With Heidi still nursing Caleb, she is trying to get through this without an antibiotic so they don’t have to struggle with yeast again.

So I go into the pharmacy department at the grocery store to look for the Garlic tabs and the Vitamin C and I immediately become overwhelmed. There are shelves and shelves dedicated to Vitamin C and 14,294 different varieties of Garlic tabs. Where do you start? Do you read the labels? Do you go for the best price, the coolest label, the best packaging? What do you look for when there are so many choices?

And that got me thinking…how do we choose which religion, which denomination—if any, which church to join? There are so many choices out there. Some have nice packaging and great programs; some have watered-down theologies that don’t make me feel uncomfortable; some preach the Word of God, but that challenges me. How are you supposed to choose in this overwhelming spiritual pharmacy?

Some may say that a Garlic tab is a Garlic tab—and that may be the case, but you can’t possibly take that view when it comes to faith and religion. You have to take everything into consideration when choosing your spiritual vitamin. This isn’t just picking one from the others to save money or to get the best product; there are eternal consequences to this shopping trip.

If you aren’t sure, I’m a pretty good shopper…drop me a note and I’ll help you find the best product. Or, I have a friend who happens to own the best store; you can contact my friend Jesus anytime.