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Doctors, epidemiologists, scientists (or whatever “ists” they've added to their titles) we're prone to believe.
And they deserve credit, having spent years investigating the whys and wherefores of what's hidden from our totally pedestrian minds. They intimately know bacteria, virus, and every nano particle inhabiting our guts or lungs or heart or brain or nerves.
Come to think of it, without the science, medicines and inventions concocted by these awesome minds, where would we all be?
Yet, we may have looked at all these awesomeness from the wrong side of the coin.
Before anyone has figured out the physics, the cosmology, the physiology, the biology, the immunology ---or whatever “logy” of things---Someone had it all pat!
These data have been there from eternity waiting to be uncovered.
This Someone has so designed our bodies so that doctors---upon learning the whats and whyfores of our complicated make-up---can sytematically study, conduct experiments and resolve our health issues.
Psalm 139:13&14 “For You created my inmost being... knit me together in my mother's womb... I am fearfully and wonderfully made...”
Thousands of years after this psalm was written, scientists today tell us that each person is made up of 10 trillion cells, with our DNA stretching 744 million miles---woundable to the moon and back 1,500 times. Wow!
Jesus Himself created us, so He knows us inside and out.
1Corinthians 8:6 “... there is one God the Father, from whom all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”
John 1:3 “All things were made through Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.”
God made sure the science behind His beautiful creation made sense---for future generations of those who would dare explore the complexity of the human body, even its defenses against pathogens.
Thank God for scientists, doctors and researchers who help us see what incredible creations we really are.
My puny mind understands very little of my physiological make up---how to deal with this pesky virus, avoid heart disease or cancer, or why I need to stay away from sugar to remain healthy.
But to doctors and scientists, God has poured out wisdom so vast and profound. They're the ones who figure out for us things we could hardly fathom about our health and the universe around us.
However, they too are created beings; and their science, if based on faulty premises, may easily be debunked. History is full of trashed scientific assumptions.
So where does our hope and help come from? We look to The One who made us.
He created the universe and the earth with the full backing of heaven's glory. Couldn't He too provide the solution to this pandemic? He had from from the beginning of time put together the equation, the calculus and the algorithm of everything under the sun and even those around it.
So let's put our trust on the Originator of life. Because from Him too will come the wisdom to reverse our seemingly helpless trajectory as human beings.
He has long possessed the science of everything, figured out everything that can be figured out even before we knew we'd encounter them.
May our doctors, scientists, leaders look to Him for wisdom.
May our sheltering days end.
And may everyone look to Jesus for freedom, not only from disease, but too, for the salvation of their souls.
