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My Two Cents
by Rev Chuck Behrens
May, 2015
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Do you know why I'm not
PREACHING this? It's really simple, I can't pronounce:
Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. It is a nasty bit of
bacteria and unbeknownst to me I had a nasty case of it last summer. I
still have no idea how I achieved getting it...imagine on a nearly bald
man, they said it was an ingrown hair.
According to Mayo Clinic, MRSA -- which is often picked up by folks who
have been in hospitals, health care facilities, or dialysis settings --
has become resistant to modern-day antibiotics, which are often used to
treat staph infections.
To the common Chuck, that means when you get MRSA, it's the dickens to get
rid of it. Hmmmm. . .stubborn like its bearer.
Since MRSA is so resistant to the regular forms of treatments, the
scientific community has been searching for something that can clobber
this bug. Indeed, scientists in Britain's Nottingham University have even
gone and looked at a 1,000-year-old manuscript: Bald's Leechbook. Bald's
Leechbook is one of the world's oldest medical textbooks and it does have
a remedy, which the ancients used to treat eye infections.
The cure is a mixture of minced garlic, onions, wine and cow bile, which
is brewed with square of brass. Sound weird? Of course. But, like they
say, "We dare not leave any stone unturned."
Amazingly, when they turned over this stone and tried the ancient
medicine, it worked. That's right. In a laboratory setting the concoction
destroyed over 90 percent of the MRSA bacteria. Researchers were
astonished, shocked, confused. They simply didn't understand how it
worked, but it did.
Future tests are forthcoming.
Now I share this interesting bit of information with you because I believe
there is a similarity between this medicine and, well, US. You see, each
of us has been born with a nasty, sexually transmitted, terminal disease
called, LIFE, an always fatal condition.
The normal cures humanity has devised to combat this illness have proven
ineffective. For example, people have thought being good might help them.
That failed because they were never able to be good enough. Other folks
tried to bribe their gods through various offerings and sacrifices. That
didn't do the job because their gods weren't real and, even if they had
been, people can't do enough.
In the search to find a cure for sin's condemnation, an ancient book, the
Bible, was consulted. In the pages of this God-given volume readers
discovered a cure that promised a complete and instant healing.
The cure was a simple one. We're told the blood of God's Son, the world's
Savior, cleanses people from all their sin, disease, and mortal life
To be truthful, like the scientists working with the MRSA cure, I don't
understand all the details of why Jesus would come into this world to
carry my sins and save me. I don't understand all of the divine
complexities, but I know the cure is effective and I, like all believers,
am saved...and because of Good Friday and Easter. . .I'm going to
Live...FOREVER.
See you in Church
Rev. Chuck
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