Written By A Doctor, But Spoken By A Healer

 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Luke 12:22-23

The book of Luke in the Bible is interesting in several ways, one being that it was not written by one of the children of Israel. It is thought that Mary was a primary source and it has the last mention in our Lord's life of Joseph, His earthly father. Like the other gospels, Luke does not answer that mystery of what happened to Joseph after that incident where our Lord Jesus was left behind in Jerusalem. Perhaps it is a comfort to those with absent fathers in this age, but Joseph did pull off one of the great disappearing acts of the Bible. Luke does contain some fantastic events surrounding our Lord's birth, and like the others does have an in-depth account of our Lord's death and resurrection. We also find in Luke that great treasure of our Lord's actual spoken words. Common to all four gospels, this treasure is the words of life as heard in our Lord's sermons and parables as He walked Israel trying to save His hard-hearted people before they killed him, or worse, forced Him to be king. The gospel also has tales of the Lord's healing, which must have been a wonder to Luke the physician as he heard about, or perhaps saw for himself, a healer at work. 

Read a bit of Luke today, and rejoice in the Lord!

Bucky