Scripture Union Encounter With God 1st February 2023
Encounter With God Daily Devotional for 1 February 2023
Scripture Union Encounter With God 1st February 2023
Encounter With God Daily Devotional for 1 February 2023
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TODAY’S TOPIC: MEDICINE THEN AND NOW
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 13
Praise the Lord .. who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases’1
God speaks to his people in any number of ways, both in Bible times and today. He spoke to Moses, at different times, through an audible voice at the burning bush, through the wise counsel of his father-in-law and face to face.
2 In dealing with medical issues here, could he, perhaps, have spoken through people who had trained and served in Egypt? |If so, God’s Holy Spirit filtered out every idea and practice that would do more harm than good, including the use of noxious, revolting ingredients such as animnal faeces and human urine by the
famed physicians of ancient Egypt!
Significantly, many concepts here remain relevant to the practice of medicine to this day: the place of careful observation in the process of diagnosis (vs 3,20,25, etc), the need for isolation to prevent the spread of diseases, especially when their nature remains unknown (vs 4,5), the incineration of contaminated objects that cannot be
safely restored (vs 52,55,57), meticulous cleanliness (vs 34,58) and the active cooperation of the patient in the entire process.
In African traditional religion, as in ancient civilisations ranging from Egypt to China and the Incas of Peru, the medical function was intricately linked to priestcraft; and it was the same in Israel. My grandfather, as an African healer, not only concocted herbs and potions but used incantations to invoke the power of his pagan gods
on his drugs; and he offered sacrifices aimed at combating the spiritual roots of ailments. Whata privilege we have as Christians! We are able to invoke the power of the Almighty Creator God through our prayers as we apply modern medicine to combat both the symptoms and the root cause of disease.
Praise God for progress in medical and other research that improves the lot of humankind and for our progressive understanding of his Word and world.
1 Ps 103:2,3 2 Exod 3:1-4; 18:17-26;33:11; Exodus 15,16 ; Psalms 15,16
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