So..Surgery.

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Netter's tells me where everything is, when a patient's abdomen is open on an OR table, organs in the hands of a surgeon. Surgical Recall tells me the answers to the most likely asked "pimp" questions by cool (and surprisingly sweet) surgeons to oblivious medical students, like myself. But its the Bible that declare to me who the master designer is, the craftsmen, creator of these intricate organ systems is. Its the Bible that tells me when the hands of the these awesome surgeons fail and reach the limitations of man, (because it will) that the Hand of the Almighty is holding on to us, still. In the worst of diseases, worst of conditions (physical, spiritual, mental), God knows the course of our life. Nothing is beyond the power of those HANDS. Nothing is beyond God...

Psalms 139: 13-16  "For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden for You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be" 



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  1. AnonymousOctober 6, 2012 at 7:41 PM

    Nicely said, friend!:D Way to look at something through the eyes of Jesus and remembering to give Him the Glory! That's pure wisdom right there, especially since the world teaches us to give ourselves the credit.
    Thank you for posting this & for being such a huge blessing to others! Miss ya & be abundantly blessed!
    -Z

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