My Neurosurgeon likes to see a brain MRI every 6-8 months to make sure that the cancer has not tried to sneak up on me. The MRI came back normal, so that was a good test to get behind me and know there is nothing to worry about in that region of my body.
City of Hope has this new open MRI machine. The best part of this machine is that there is a device that goes over your head that has a little mirror which is aligned perfectly with a television screen in back of you. They don't let you watch television, but they have "Planet Earth" playing, which is an amazing series on animals that just takes your breath away. I hate going into an MRI machine, but this makes it tolerable and interesting.
When I watch "Planet Earth", I am just thrilled to the core at the creation of God. We (me) don't always take time to think upon the amazing creations God has given us. Animals are just the tip of the iceberg of what God has done for our pleasure. The individual habits and characteristics of animals is just amazing. When I get out of the MRI machine, I walk away with a huge smile on my face because the God I worship and adore made everything I just saw, and so I know that He can do anything. Yes, anything!
Genesis 1:24,25 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
The complex universe, and especially this little speck of a planet we live on, makes me believe even more in the Bible and the telling of how God created it all. I truly think it takes more faith to believe the Big Bang Theory or Evolution that it does to have faith in a star breathing God. I once heard someone say that the Big Bang Theory was like saying that you can lay out all the pieces of a Boeing 747 on a football field (nuts and bolts included) and that a perfect storm could create a perfectly put together airplane that could fly. It just can't happen. When you look at the enormous universe that we are still studying, the details of our planet and how it can sustain life, and the complexity of the human body... all you can do is stand amazed!!
This is the beginning blocks of faith and a curiosity about God. When you can accept that He is the only true God who created all that we know, including yourself, then you are on your way to getting closer to Him and realizing that He has made you for a purpose.
I hope that at some point this week, you can stop and be thankful for all that God created. Stand in awe of the bird outside your window, or the beautiful sunset, or the human eye and it's complexity. When you have that moment, you are communing with God. Sometimes all it takes is to have those few minutes of praise and thanks which then rejuvenates you to face the tasks and hurdles you have before you with confidence that God can do anything. Yes, anything!
My God is an awesome God...
Sandy
