This morning I watched a nurse dig around in the back of my hand trying to get a needle into a vein. If I had been five or six years old I would have been deeply puzzled. How can this be? Every time I fell off my tricycle blood would come out my knees or arms. Wasn’t I a bag of blood held in by my skin? How could she puncture me and not get any blood?
As wonderful as is modern medicine it still has a long way to go. Just as we look back on George Washington’s death because his caring doctors bled him to death, we will look back at chemotherapy as crude and primitive. How was it that we thought the best way to treat cancer was by filling one’s body with bags of poison? Fortunately those days are soon to end. Genetic engineering and stem cell research are making quantum leaps forward in understanding cells and how to alter them and make them right again. We are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139. We are amazing creatures, complex and filled with a host of various systems, each symbiotically causing the whole to thrive.
“And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image.'” has to be the most amazing sentence ever spoken. He made birds and fish and other orders of life. But to make a creature in His own image was the most unselfish act of all time. He wanted to share all the wonder of His universe. Creatures in His image would be free to learn, grow and experience everything good. And now He invites us to fully participate. Jesus said, “Come ye blessed of my Father and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the earth.” Matt. 25:34.
Written by Roger Bothwell on September 21, 2012
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