Let us suppose that you have a terrible, persistent cough which keeps you and everyone in the house awake at night. You make an appointment with a doctor who examines you and then prescribes an over the counter cough syrup. You believe that he is treating the symptoms of something that could prove to be fatal if treated with cough syrup. You go to another doctor and discover that radical surgery is needed to save your life.
Jesus Christ, the Great Physician, describes some symptoms of a greater disease in Matthew 15:19. He tells us that evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies come from the heart of man. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9) While many people work overtime to treat the symptoms of a diseased and corrupt heart, it is an exercise in futility.
Only Jesus Christ can change a wicked heart and put love where hate has been, purity where immorality has been, compassion where apathy has been, honesty where theft has been and worship and praise where indifference has been. In short, Jesus alone can change a person from death to life. Stop treating the symptoms and accept The Cure.
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