There is a compelling interest in the world of science to resurrect the animals that have once been alive, but due to attrition, have become extinct. Over the past few years, a number of authors and filmmakers have responded to this idea and produced a number of books and a blockbuster movie.
Much progress has developed utilizing a number of techniques to reacquire the basic building block of the animals. The science of it goes something like this. . . You must first obtain a non fossilized sample of bone(it’s the only thing that doesn’t immediately deteriorate), drill a hole in it about the size of your pinkie finger, take that sample and grind it up into a fine powder. After that you mix it into a water based solution and then mix it with magnesium, heat it to 150 degrees to break the DNA chain into two pieces, cool it down, repeat about thirty times and then you will have about a million copies of gene in a test tube.
There are times in our lives where we must resurrect things in our past in order to succeed in the present. In fact, those times can serve as our only saving grace. There is a compulsion of looking into the past as that is where stability starts. A new building cannot survive unless the building is anchored deeply to a firm foundation. The past serves as an anchor. . . it was a learned man of old that would espouse that “I know a man by his past.”
Essential to the process is a non fossilized portion of bone. It can’t be hardened and brittle, as this is relegates it to absolute deadness. It must be a segment with some life. That is the way it is with our spiritual lives. . .there is a compelling reason that the Holy Ghost is spoken of as being “alive.” There is a reason that the numerous miracles are in the tome of scripture. It reflects for us the way that things have been, but more importantly, how things have to be now. The Bible is very much alive. . . but sometimes men can be dead. Resurrecting a dead ministry can involve reaching into the past. . .
Secondly, the drills of life come harshly to us. When the coring process is going on, it is neither fun nor enjoyable, yet the biblical maxim of dying to bear fruit comes into focus. It is heartbreaking to see yourself die. The confusion of the mind that accompanies this is at times debilitating, and understanding seems far away. Sometimes, even the voice of God is shut to you, as the sky is brass and the heavens silent.
The human body can tolerate a bath of approximately 115 degrees. . . anything hotter is uncomfortable to the point of unbearable. Yet in the process of resurrecting the things that are dormant, you must submit to the process of heat not once, nor twice, but over and over.
If that is not enough, you will find your soul being rent into two pieces, a necessary function of separating the flesh from the spirit. Paul was clear when we said that spirit and flesh war against each other. One part of us needs to die for the other to live.
Much progress has developed utilizing a number of techniques to reacquire the basic building block of the animals. The science of it goes something like this. . . You must first obtain a non fossilized sample of bone(it’s the only thing that doesn’t immediately deteriorate), drill a hole in it about the size of your pinkie finger, take that sample and grind it up into a fine powder. After that you mix it into a water based solution and then mix it with magnesium, heat it to 150 degrees to break the DNA chain into two pieces, cool it down, repeat about thirty times and then you will have about a million copies of gene in a test tube.
There are times in our lives where we must resurrect things in our past in order to succeed in the present. In fact, those times can serve as our only saving grace. There is a compulsion of looking into the past as that is where stability starts. A new building cannot survive unless the building is anchored deeply to a firm foundation. The past serves as an anchor. . . it was a learned man of old that would espouse that “I know a man by his past.”
Essential to the process is a non fossilized portion of bone. It can’t be hardened and brittle, as this is relegates it to absolute deadness. It must be a segment with some life. That is the way it is with our spiritual lives. . .there is a compelling reason that the Holy Ghost is spoken of as being “alive.” There is a reason that the numerous miracles are in the tome of scripture. It reflects for us the way that things have been, but more importantly, how things have to be now. The Bible is very much alive. . . but sometimes men can be dead. Resurrecting a dead ministry can involve reaching into the past. . .
Secondly, the drills of life come harshly to us. When the coring process is going on, it is neither fun nor enjoyable, yet the biblical maxim of dying to bear fruit comes into focus. It is heartbreaking to see yourself die. The confusion of the mind that accompanies this is at times debilitating, and understanding seems far away. Sometimes, even the voice of God is shut to you, as the sky is brass and the heavens silent.
The human body can tolerate a bath of approximately 115 degrees. . . anything hotter is uncomfortable to the point of unbearable. Yet in the process of resurrecting the things that are dormant, you must submit to the process of heat not once, nor twice, but over and over.
If that is not enough, you will find your soul being rent into two pieces, a necessary function of separating the flesh from the spirit. Paul was clear when we said that spirit and flesh war against each other. One part of us needs to die for the other to live.
There is where a little of the past produces a lot in the present. Where the expectations of the past are met in the reality of the moment. There is a witness of dead bones coming alive in the Old Testament, and the dead were raised to life in the New.
This is when the dead bones are more valuable laying in a grave than when they were alive. . .In order for them to have value, they had to die. . .seems like that must be God's way of dealing with some things in our lives.
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