I have the honor of serving in the health sciences, and I love what I do and would do it without monetary incentive if I had to. The science of medicine (both the practice & principles of the field and the pharmacology of the drug entities used to treat disease) and of the mind holds a particular fascination for me, and I have a healthy respect for the professionals operating in this arena.
Knowledge of the medical sciences helps to mitigate or cure diseases, solve health problems, and predict the probability of related future events based on empirically proven data. Specifics such as a person’s impending wellness status, death, or impaired quality of life can be accurately deduced and reduced to single-digit numbers with sharpshooter precision. Recent involvement in the care of a person with a series of life-threatening events and a resultant grave prognosis of certainty reminded me of some of the inner workings of the field that can become obscured or forgotten in our obsession with the pursuit of knowledge and professional expertise.
As innovative, accurate, and prognostic as scientific knowledge is, it pales by infinitesimal margins in comparison to the transcendence and omnipotence that pulsate through omniscience, the exclusive preserves of the one true God Who is the only being in existence to possess these attributes.
Any medical certainty, such as one involving a last and dying breath due to dead medical ends or organs can be flipped around at any time by the pronouncing breath of the omniscient, omnipotent God. Not only is He the Creator and Powerhouse behind all science and life in general1, He is the Enabler of all innovations (medical, technological, artificial, artistic, etc.) and the One who gives the ability to employ it for life’s enhancements and enjoyments. If His superior knowledge determines and reveals that it is not a person’s time to go, or that His great benevolence and sovereignty have granted an extension of life, no degree of physical debility, predictive analytics, scientific rigor, or intellectual adroitness can determine otherwise2. It thus lies within the purview of His sensitive and discerning3 representative on the case4 to insist upon His counsel by aligning their speech, thoughts, and prayer focus with what He said concerning the matter, so they can produce the life-giving results He promised. In other words, we must say what God says to activate and achieve the success God intends. We think and speak in line with God’s revealed Word to catalyze and experience His predetermined results.5
Friend, the most analytical, predictive, immutable, and irrefutable body of science is the omniscience that transcends, controls, and reverses any fact of science6 in a heartbeat, and the greatest privilege of life is when you can enjoy a personal encounters with this omniscient God through Jesus Christ, having had your sins forgiven and gained access to God through Him7. A profound benefit of this sweet relationship is that you get to be His designated representative on earth, strategically deployed to your place of assignment8 to administer His will, purpose, and justice to the people and systems around you. There is no joy or knowledge greater than the omniscience of Sovereignty working in, through, and with the science of humanity to accomplish amazing feats on earth9, but even more superior AND enduring undertakings in eternity!10
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and His paths beyond tracing out!
(Romans 11:33)
“And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the ONE true God, and He is eternal life!”
(1 John 5:20)
**For questions on how to get to know God personally through Jesus Christ, experience Him daily, or for other inquiries, please email: graced@thewordofhisgrace.com
Bibliography
- Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:15-17; Revelations 4:11; John 1:4 ↩︎
- Lamentations 3:37; Proverbs 19:21; 21:30; Daniel 4:35; 1 Corinthians 1:27 ↩︎
- Ephesians 5:17; 1 Chronicles 12:32; Psalm 32:8; Isaiah 33:6 ↩︎
- Matthew 5:13-16; 10:1; 6-8; Luke 9:1-2; Luke 10:19; Mark 16:17-18 ↩︎
- 1 Peter 4:11; proverbs 18:20-21; Mark 11:23-24; Psalm 107:2; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Ezekiel 37:4-14 ↩︎
- Ephesians 1:11; Isaiah 46:10-11; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Isaiah 40:15-18; 21-23; Psalm 126:1-3 ↩︎
- John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:17-18; Romans 5:1-2 ↩︎
- Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Acts 1:8 ↩︎
- Psalm 111:2-4; 7; 145:4-7; ↩︎
- Ecclesiastes 3:14; Acts 15:18; Ephesians 1:9-12 ↩︎