Proverbs 2:16
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+2&version=ESV
Eating Cake in the Modern World
The modern world summarizes it in this way, “you can’t have your cake and eat it too”. We choose righteousness or evil each day. Each day that we choose evil, we take another step down a path that leads to destruction. We cannot have it both ways. We cannot rescue ourselves as we travel further down that road. Only God’s mercy and grace may restore one to the way of life.
Rather than risk one little downward step, at Sanctuary we strive in God’s wisdom and strength to always walk in the walk of righteousness. By recognizing that without Him we would choose the ways of the “forbidden-woman”, we humbly seek His Spirit to always lead us. Whether in the business decisions of a given day or the details of a patient’s care, we keep Him always before us.
When we, in our human frailness, slip or stumble, we ask Him to restore us. While we never claim to possess all wisdom or any other perfection, we strive according to His ways towards whatever fruit He will grant.
This means we will never guarantee cure or 100% relief to our patients like many internet gurus. This means we prepare our patients for possible side effects of therapies and potential signs that we may need to adjust our initial therapy plan. This means we seek to avoid financial temptations to recommending a particular supplement. By forgoing profits on our recommended therapies, we can provide both effective and trusted recommendations. This means we through the effort of our entire Sanctuary team towards both the individual patient’s care and towards the system of care behind the scenes.
We pray that we will be the Sanctuary remaining in the land by the integrity of our daily practices. Even when the medical world continues to lose the trust of the public, we seek to maintain our reputation for God’s glory.
Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more... offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
