The Face gave it away

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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I love collecting old books on medicine, and special cures and on the human body. I read them and get somewhat surprised by 2 things…one - how completely off they are with some things… like the cure for a headache. Goose urine, whiskey and opium… don’t get me wrong, it will cure a headache… but the whiplash effect has got to be a wing dinger. But the second thing I am amazed at is many times even though the book it over a hundred years old they are right on with their insights about the human body. 

I am currently reading apples physiology by Dr. Frank Overton. the book is 125 years old and yet much of what he writes is spot on.

In fact he wrote something in its bout alcohol. he shared about how it affected the face, the blood vessels and the ruddy appearance to those who abuse it. And in the chapter he writes that most sicknesses are first seen in the face. I know that to be true. When I had my first cancer a nurse in the gym spotted it by simply looking at my face. Then when I went to my gastrointestinal doctor he simply looked in my eyes and under my eyelids and said I have cancer.

It made me reflect on matthew 6

Matthew 6:22-23“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Eye GK oth-thal-mos  (we get our word optomologist) 

it doesn’t just mean your physical eye, it actually accounts for your whole facial countenance. by looking in someones face you can tell if they are truly filled with joy!

But even better understood is it also means you reflect what you stare at. So if you are focusing on Jesus you reflect him and the joy he has set before you.

 

Reminds me of a story about 2 brothers who were prospectors back in the california gold rush back in the 1840’s and 50’s. the bought a small plot of land and started digging. for months they would dig, go into town every few weeks for a few more supplies and continue on. Well they finally hit a major vein of Gold. They were so excited they wanted to mine it and buy more land in that area. So they knew they had to keep it top secret. They decided to go into town, split up, act nonchalantly NOT SAY A WORD TO ANYONE and get their supplies and meet back at the edge of town and go back to camp. They did just that… but when they headed back to camp they noticed a few people following them, and by the time they go to camp there were now a few dozen people following them. The brothers both accused each other of talking… but when they finally asked one of the men following them he simply said “no one told us… we just seen it in your face”.

Aaahhh may that be our prayer today. That the lost world of today knows we have the answer because they seen in in our face.