Sam Prellwitz

I haven’t visited the doctor in over a year. Almost a year ago I got married and went off of my parents health care plan. I have health insurance, but for some reason I fear being sick now more than I ever have before. I think the reality has set in for me that being sick costs money. I’d rather not pay a doctor right now to help fix me. I’m afraid of what it might cost (even in co-pays, etc.) Now that fear isn’t really a rational fear. My wife and I have stable jobs that could cover the costs if needed, but for some reason the thought of needing to go to the doctor scares me! It scares me so much that a few months ago when I got pretty sick I also started to feel that fear well up in me. Is this bad enough? Will I have to go to the doctor for this one? The fear was almost as bad as the sickness. I was scared to admit that I might need help because I knew it would cost me. That’s how I started to understand this passage below. Mark 2:15-17 15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples...

“I told you so.” Those are the words I fear echo in the heads of many Christians as they vigorously argue with a non-believer. They’re the words they can’t wait to say as they look down from their puffy cloud in heaven. I can’t blame them for thinking it either - who doesn’t want to be certain of what they believe? Who doesn’t want to be right? But what does that say about us? As Christians are we more concerned with showing everyone how right we are, or with showing how much love we have to offer? Jesus was really good at loving, but He rarely worried about convincing people who didn’t believe Him. Maybe instead of predicting the end of the world, telling that one person how wrong they are, or making a big stink when someone disagrees with us; we should instead spend our time giving people a reason to trust what we say. And maybe in that process of loving God and loving others we’ll be humbled enough to know that “I told you so” should have no place in our vocabulary (even if we find ...