The Healthcare Reform debate intrigues me.  Not the politics and economics of it, but the attitude concerning it.  People are embracing the philosophy that they have a "right" to healthcare and that they have a "right" to be healthy.  And if they are not, someone owes it to them to fix it.

 

So democrats and republicans banter about on Capitol Hill as if they are really going to guarantee the people's "right" to health and healthcare.  And in posturing and finger pointing, they all seem willfully ignorant of one important fact: we are all going to die.

 

Whether we die sick or we die healthy, whether we die after a prolonged illness or die of a sudden heart attack, whether we see it coming or are blindsided, we are going to die.  Not the government, not the health insurance industry, not the medical profession is going to stop it.  We are going to die.  Then what?

 

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment… (Hebrews 9:27)

 

Then the only universal healthcare guarantee is death.  And we have a "right" to death because of our sins. (Romans 3:23)  And we have a "right" to be condemned in judgment before a holy God for all eternity because of our sins.

 

But.

 

…so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. (Hebrews 9:28)

 

Because Christ paid the penalty for our sins, bearing our judgment on His cross, everyone who believes in Him has a new healthcare guarantee: everlasting life.

 

Oh that Americans would be more concerned about their eternal souls than their present bodies.