Lesley Wilson 27th April 2014 - 'Hip Resurrection'

This musing had its origins in thanksgiving and praise to God for the timely, safe and successful total hip resurrection replacement operation which is the most recent instalment in the unfolding Gospel according to Lesley Wilson. God has been with me in the dark valleys of my imagination pre-op, in the hours of sedation while I was under the knife, the saw and the drill (you have to catch the drollness here) and continues to sustain me in recovery and rehabilitation. He is wonderful! Need encouragement, need assurance, need a boost in confidence? Ask me. I can sing Hallals with the best of them. (As an aside, ‘hallal’ means to be foolishly clamorous in exuberant, extravagant praise of God and His goodness.)When I was recounting the hospital and operation experience to Malcolm, he asked me this question: Did I think I would be alive today without western modern medicine? My initial response was, Why not? I’ve turned out to be resilient. But then, consider: antibiotics, anaesthetics, early detection and intervention, immunisation, diagnostic technology, blood transfusions, etc. We are so shielded and protected. How many thousands of millions of years has it taken to bring us to this place in the process of creation? (Some incomprehensible number - 13.7 billion according to the particle physicists, of which homo sapiens has been here some paltry hundreds of millions.) What a patient, long-reaching Creator, watching over evolution for the genesis of mankind to put His special imprint on, the image and likeness of God.   I feel like David in Psalm 8:1,3,4:   O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place, what is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man, that You care for him?But this is wonderful! In all the ever-expanding vastness of creation, though I am as a mote on a tiny speck of a planet, God has known me here in this time, a significant someone in His kingdom purposes. And the fact that God made Himself known to us in human form even increases the significance of being a ‘mankind’; the Son of God identifies with us.You have heard Malcolm say when addressing sections and individual verses of Scripture that a text without a context is a pretext. The same applies to our individual texts (i.e. testimonies); without a context they are just a ‘So what?’ That little ‘rave’ in the paragraph above is my attempt to put my recent experience into the metatext of His story. I am a beneficiary of both physical and medical evolution because I am significant. And so are you. Your story is part of His story. (Why not write a musing and tell a little bit of it?) Love from Lesley Wilson