Currently reading…
Finished in 2010…
What I read in 2009
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Nineteen Minutes
-
The Stranger
- A High View of Scripture?
- The Blue Parakeet
- The Great Brain
- Introduction to the Bible
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- The Natural
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Candy Girl
- Fight Club
- Starship Troopers
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- World Without End
- SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World
- SuperFreakonomics
- No Country for Old Men
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- The Pillars of the Earth
Wednesday, February, 20, 2008
Posted at: 10:00 pm
The Lord instructs Moses on cleanliness and uncleanliness in times of child birth, skin disease, and molds.
In a time before medicine and most science there was a need to understand disease in some way. This passage illustrates how the Israelites viewed disease: it was uncleanness. With little medicinal knowledge the uncleanliness of a person was a matter for the priests. The priests could declare a person clean or unclean. After recovery from a disease the people were called to give an offering to God thanking that they had been returned to health.
Science has reduced our perceived dependence on God. When we recover from illness we thank our doctors and our drugs, but we forget to offer thanks to God. My family has had rotating illnesses the past six weeks and I do not know of one time that I have thanked God for cleansing us from our sickness. God is still at work in this world and still heals. It would be good to recognize God working through doctors and drugs, and to thank him for healing.
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