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'... All peoples on earth will be blessed through you ...' Genesis 28:14
Imagine, having your tonsils out when you're wide awake, or having a tooth out without that jab in your gum to send it numb. Like the sound of that? Uh-uh, no thanks. But that's what they used to do in the days before anaesthetic. A Scottish guy called James Young Simpson didn't like the idea of so much pain due to ops gone-wrong.
So did he: a) just think 'Oh well, I cannot do anything about it', or
b) look to God for help? The answer is b; he looked to the Bible to see if God could help him sort the problem out, and God gave him an idea through Genesis 2:21; when God 'operated' on Adam (I'm talking about when he nicked a rib to make Eve), he put him into a deep sleep first.
James decided to try and copy that, using chloroform. Yes, people tried to say he was wrong and that it'd never work, but he knew God had given him the idea, so he stuck with it, and eventually it paid off. It was widely accepted after Queen Victoria had her 8th child using chloroform, and said she was 'greatly pleased with it's effect'.
What can we learn from James Young Simpson? To ask God for good ideas that will help and bless others, and to keep working on them when he does. Who knows what great breakthrough God may use you for?
written by Bob Gass
'... All peoples on earth will be blessed through you ...' Genesis 28:14
Imagine, having your tonsils out when you're wide awake, or having a tooth out without that jab in your gum to send it numb. Like the sound of that? Uh-uh, no thanks. But that's what they used to do in the days before anaesthetic. A Scottish guy called James Young Simpson didn't like the idea of so much pain due to ops gone-wrong.
So did he: a) just think 'Oh well, I cannot do anything about it', or
b) look to God for help? The answer is b; he looked to the Bible to see if God could help him sort the problem out, and God gave him an idea through Genesis 2:21; when God 'operated' on Adam (I'm talking about when he nicked a rib to make Eve), he put him into a deep sleep first.
James decided to try and copy that, using chloroform. Yes, people tried to say he was wrong and that it'd never work, but he knew God had given him the idea, so he stuck with it, and eventually it paid off. It was widely accepted after Queen Victoria had her 8th child using chloroform, and said she was 'greatly pleased with it's effect'.
What can we learn from James Young Simpson? To ask God for good ideas that will help and bless others, and to keep working on them when he does. Who knows what great breakthrough God may use you for?
written by Bob Gass
