MRI
MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a painless test, but often necessary test to gain insight of injury or disease entity in our bodies. Its probing reach extends deep into the areas to be examined, often seeing the minutest of details not able to be seen on general x-rays or even revealed by a cat scan. A cat scan gives a more intimate picture of the human body, but an MRI reaches much deeper, revealing heretofore unnoticed concerns and problems.
For those who have had an MRI done, this will be old hat, but to others, let me describe the procedure. Because of the intense magnetic pull of the machine nearly all metals, identifications with a magnetic strip, and credit cards must be left outside of the chamber. Credit cards and identifications will be stripped of information and metals will be pulled against the machine. Entering the room, a person sees a huge donut shaped machine that sits astride a narrow conveyor belt cot. The technicians cause the person to lie down on the cot and wrap a binder around the person. Much of it is to be sure the person doesn’t roll off and onto the floor. It may also have something to do with preventing the person from escaping. (Not really).
If you’ve seen the movie, “The Man in the Iron Mask” you will understand what happens next. A technician may place a box-like helmet over the patient’s head and tell the client not to move during the entire test. Now comes the fun part. The magnet begins to whirl inside of the donut creating grunts, growls, swooshing, and throbbing sounds. Sometimes an overloud harsh buzzing and thrumming sounds roars in the patient’s ears. The procedure takes between 30 minutes and 45 minutes.
In yesterday’s sermon it was mentioned that the Word of God penetrates deeply. In the book of Hebrews, chapter 4:12 it reads, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
An MRI is unable to view the seam where soul and spirit exist in the body nor can it discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. The MRI may be able to view the joints and marrow, but God’s Word probes even deeper. All things are naked in His sight.