Visit To The Dentist

I don’t know about most people, but I don’t like going to the dentist. I don’t have any problem with the Dentists themselves; it is just the procedure. The first thing you see as you enter the room is a funny looking chair. This chair can turn you almost in any direction so that you could be at the mercy of the dentist. To that chair, all kind of gadgets are attached. 
It makes you think for a while that you are an alien lab. Things become worst when you have the bright light coming down as you slowly open your mouth. It must look like the light at the end of the tunnel – you know the one the people see when they are almost dying.
The most tormenting thing is just the idea of staying there with your mouth open, sometimes for hours, and having someone play with everything in there? The sounds of those instruments against your teeth and the occasional blood you see while rinsing your mouth is just scary. To make things worse, they do all of that with just a little mirror. Have you ever tried to tie a bow tie or a tie in front of a mirror? You get confused which side is right and which is left. What if that happens and the dentist instead of going to the right he goes to the left? 
After all the trauma of those instruments knocking against your teeth and having your mouth open for such a long time, you think everything is done and finally you can go home to never return to that chair or dentist. But no, that’s the beginning of many other visits you will have to make. Nothing really ever gets done with dentists.
Going to the dentist, made me think a little more about my relationship with God. On our first visit to the dentist, we experience suffering and pain and regrets for eating too many sweets and cookies etc... The dentist will take His time, using tiny instruments which cause excruciating pain at times. Putting that into a spiritual perspective; it’s hard for us to stay long hours or even a few minutes in prayer or to open up and let the Lord see everything that we have been trying to hide from him. Often, we don’t let Him finish the work He started and we try finishing it on our own. Not knowing better, we ruin it more and then, eventually we go back to him with an even worse condition than we had before and ask Him to fix it. 
To be able to have good and clean teeth, we have to constantly go back to the dentist. It is the same way with God; in order for us to be clean we have to constantly go to Him for a checkup.
So, when was your last checkup?