Nursing is an ever-growing career field. So much so that apparently, if you are enrolled in school, the only possible subject you could be studying is nursing! If ever I mentioned my being in school, the first assumption was, "Oh, are you taking nursing?" NO!! I do not now, nor have I ever, nor will I ever wish to study nursing!
  I have great respect for nurses. I have two in my immediate family. However, I have no desire to be associated with the medical field in any way. Why, you ask? For starters, the older I get the weaker stomached I become.  I definitely want no part of any bodily secretions, be it snot, pooh, pee, or otherwise!! I just can't handle it! Furthermore, I do not mind blood so much as I cringe at the thought of a wound. Gaping, bleeding, pulsing tears, gashes or rips in flesh I cannot stand.
  Just imagine the many different scenarios nurses encounter. Some wounds are so severe, they cause the loss of limbs. There must be horrible sights and sounds associated with such wounds. Nevertheless, nurses and most all medical professionals are capable and competent in helping heal wounds. It's their duty. Their calling. They do it because they love it and the urge to help people, to erase or at best, lessen the pain and suffering of others, the need to restore someone to their pre-wounded condition, overwhelms them and allows them to persevere through the most horrific of situations.
  Obviously, not  all people are  called for such a purpose - to restore  people back to health. But while not everyone is called to nurse people to health, it IS more than likely that at some point, all of us will need someone to assist us in a medical situation. When I am sick or wounded and I go to the Doctor, I DO NOT want to be helped by someone like me! Imagine arriving at the doctor's office and being treated by a nurse that can't bear the sight of blood or the groan of pain. Or, being greeted by a nurse that doesn't really care if you make it out alive because they are too worried about not throwing up due to seeing you in your awful condition! When we go to the doctor, or find ourselves needing medical attention, we don't want to end up with the nurse that sits around the nurses station talkin on her phone, or runs out for smoke breaks every 10 minutes, or gives you the evil eye when you push the call button! WE want the sweet, doe-eyed nurse that attends to our every need and has impeccable bedside manners!
  The same can be said of us when we find ourselves with spiritual wounds. And oh boy, is there ever a need for Spiritual restoration specialists! You may be asking, "well how is one spiritually wounded?" If you are asking that you've obviously not been around a church much but I will indulge you. The Bible says in Luke 22:31, "...Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat." The process of sifting wheat was a lengthy one. I will not discuss it all here, but it involved cutting and beating and breaking away parts of the wheat. It was a long process and did not happen all at once. Today we have machines called combines that combine the process to make it easier. The Bible says, Satan wants to have us so he can sift us as wheat. Literally, he wants us so he can cut us, beat us, and tear us. I think Satan wants as much time as we will allow for the process of sifting us. Can you imagine if physically a person was put through the process? It would be extremely painful and we would definitely need medical attention. Imagine showing up at the hospital after having suffered a run in with a combine. The wounds would be horrendous. Your body would need round the clock attention. You would require medicines and treatments. And nurses would need to constantly attend you. You would want that nurse who had a lot of compassion. Who felt the urge to restore you to a pre-wound condition.
   I realize the meaning is that Satan wants to sift us spiritually. But spiritual wounds are painful just like physical wounds. And spiritual wounds must be healed in order for a Christian to survive. Imagine a Christian being spiritually wounded and not recieving proper treatment for their wounds. Or, trying to heal them on their own. Or showing up at the "hospital" only to be attended by the "nurse" that sits at the station talking on her phone. Galatians 6:1 says, "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted."
Spritually wounded people need nurses that have compassion. That have the desire, the urge, the calling to give treatment no matter how bad the wound. You know the amazing thing about nurses? Nurses did not have to endure EVERY type of wound in order to know how to treat every type of wound. I bet if you showed up at the hospital after having your arm ripped off in a combine, they wouldn't lay you on a table and make you wait while they searched for a nurse who had suffered the same type of injury to know how to treat you! Nurses are trained to treat wounds no matter whether they have suffered them or not!
You know what else is amazing about nurses. If you showed up at the hospital after having your arm severed by a big piece of farm equipment, they probably wouldn't look at you, and think you are an idiot who did this on purpose! They wouldn't leave you layin there until you confessed your idiocy and proved that you deserved treatment! They would realize that for whatever reason a machine more powerful than you, got ahold of you WHILE YOU WERE WORKING NEAR IT, (I realize we have to take responsibility for our part) and sucked you in and tore you up. Sifted you into parts. And they would immediately and continuously provide you with care until you were better.
  Many times I am afraid that we Christians do not really understand the power of the devil and the severity of the wounds he inflicts. We hear preaching about the devil and his power, but let a Christian get sucked in and sifted and we shift the blame away from the devil and onto the Christian. We forget that the devil's desire was to harm them. THerefore, we eradicate our obligation to help them in their healing process. Or,we go back to our station and  and lay em on the table and let em wait. Til they are so damaged by their wounds, their lives cannot be restored to a pre-wound state. Nurses would lose their jobs if they left their patients unattended and uncared for. I'm afraid sometimes the spiritually wounded are never restored because their nurses do not have the same sense of obligation to their patients.