If you read my previous blogs, you may have come across the book title The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggert. I am slowly working my way through it since Darren and I are building out a shop for our new business, Midtown Cycles, and it's taking a lot of our time. I may be making slow progress to the last page, but every time I sit down and read that book, it makes me think. I like that in a book. Today, I read about a scientist, Leibovici, who did an experiment very meticulously to debunk the idea of using the scientific method to study prayer. He did a tightly controlled experiment on the effect of prayer on hospital patients with the same illness, looking at death rate, quickness of recovery, and length of fever. The group that was prayed for suffered fewer deaths but not enough to be of statistical significance, but, wait, this is a big BUT,(don't be silly, that has two t's) there was a very significant difference in the time it took to heal, duration of fever, and hospital stay for those who were prayed for, AND, this is weird, his "pray-ers" prayed for people that were ill between 1990-1996 in the year 2000. The results caused Leibovici all kinds of grief, and he tried to emphasize that he had proven his point, but too many people were looking at his discovery and saying, Hmmm.... I certainly did. It really doesn't surprise me because the whole idea of time being a linear movement forward is no longer scientifically based. It's just something our brains find comfortable to live with because we look at cause and effect in that order, and it fits our limited views of the universe.
Along that line, I bring you Acts 3:19. "Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out." O.K., when did your sins happen? Before now? How can you wipe out something that no longer exists? Or does it? If so, where does it exist? I won't keep going. It's getting late. Just something to think about along the same lines as Leibovici's experiment.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
Revelation 1:8
Love, Linda
2 comments:
I Thessalonians 5:17 says, "pray continually:" so time is not a factor.
That's a good point. I think putting God on our time clock is another way we try to fit him into our mold instead of us melding into his. Have a great day!
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