Sometimes I enjoy searching my memory banks for a verse of Scripture that somehow matches my situation. So when I recently found myself lying flat on a table that was gliding in and out of a large white donut shaped chamber it was easy to come up with Psalm 139. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. . . My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body.” That was written 4000 years ago. Today we can look inside our bodies and see everything that is going on.
Technology has changed everything except human nature. Without Jesus in our lives we are just as selfish as ever. Do you remember Job’s dialogue with God, when God decided to put Job in his place by asking him some very interesting questions? In chapter 38 God asked who can measure the dimensions of the earth. Now we can. God asked who could enter the storehouses of snow or hail or a path for thunderstorms. Channel 4 does it every night. Now I am not bragging about how wonderful we have become. No. It is God, the guru of technology, the omnipotent One, who knows all and who in these last days shares many of His secrets with us.
Best of all, He shares His grace with us. That’s the best gift, not that I don’t appreciate all the scientific advancements. It is just important that we acknowledge the source and are thankful. By the way, not only can He scan our organs He can and does scan our minds. That’s important to remember.
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 23, 2017
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