Cockroaches...and Jesus!

This white man always finds in interesting to trawl through the technology news on his internet homepage. Today was no exception, reiterating the fact that often the stories found there are more thought-provoking than the main news page. This is what caught the white man's eye - "cockroaches may help beat 'superbugs'". The link to the article is here http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/7957121/cockroaches-may-help-beat-superbugs

But in summary, the story highlights current research that appears to support a theory that the antibodies held within the common cockroach may be effective in treating super-resistant strains of infection in humans. So there it is - those filthy, repulsive, dingy-dwelling pests may end up being one of humanity's primary weapons against infections and sicknesses. The bugs we love to annihilate with a shoe or foot stomp could be our hope, our lethal weapon against our 'bugs'. There's a creepy kind of irony in that!

Of course, this principle of the least serving the needs of humanity should come as no surprise to Christian believers. For in Jesus, we have the greatest example of one who was trodden on and, for all intensive purposes became nothing more than a dirty cockroach nailed to a cross with all the repulsiveness of the world's sin upon Him. What an irony...what a miracle, that Jesus the cockroach would also have within His being the ultimate antidote to the most super-resistant and lethal of afflictions - sin. So the next time, just before your shoe comes crushing down to obliterate the next unfortunate cockroach who invades 'your' world, remember that even in the least of what seems to be insignificant or even unworthy of existence there can be some good that you may just benefit from one day!

And remember - even the cockroaches have their created purpose for being...God wouldn't have bothered otherwise!