Incredible Creation

I can't help but glorify God when I consider the works of His hands.

Just the other day I picked up a mosquito bite on my hand, just as I was leaving the tent on the last night of our healing crusade. I tend to react quite badly to UK mosquito bites (for some reason African ones don't bother me much), usually resulting in a lot of swelling and itching.

Sure enough over the next few days my hand ballooned and became very stiff. I first of all prayed for healing and did feel a change, but on going to the doctors and being prescribed antihistamines I remembered that God has provided a wonderful creation (though tainted by sin) that He glorifies His name in just as He does in healing.

I am not for drug therapy at all, knowing that it is based on an evolution world-view and secularism. With this in mind I politely accepted the prescription without intending to use it (I don't mind blessing the GPs with a few points;-)).  I then went and did a little research, finding out that Papayas are a natural antihistamine, without the cost and side effects of prescription drugs. The world doesn't want to promote the healing power of natural things because they can't regulate them like drugs and thus would lose billions of dollars. Besides, if natural resources heal then that points towards some sort of intention behind their design and creation, and no self-respecting secular humanist would allow anything to point them towards an almighty God to be accountable to.

I cut some strips off a Papaya and laid it on my hand for about 15 minutes - the swelling reduced that night and over these last two days has diminished to be hardly noticable. When I had been bitten on the legs before it would take over a week to go down. The Papain enzyme in the Papaya actually breaks down the proteins in the mosquito saliva, thus reducing the itch and reaction.

I am not sure whether God put it in plants in preparation for a fall He knew would happen, or whether He created the plants with all these properties to glorify His name, but I do know that it is clear that natural things that have specific effects on human beings for their benefit can only be another finger pointing towards Jesus Christ. As one man said, it looks like someone was expecting our arrival.