A Relay Worth Watching

So, I'm watching a lot of the early seasons of Grey's Anatomy these days. And let me say what a show this must be since it's actually still running (in 17th season), having started in 2005. Talk about longevity and stamina in a tv sitcom.

One thing that draws me to this show is that the doctors in it are so confident in their skills that they compete to perform surgeries in Seattle Grace Hospital. They rarely allow doubt (at least to this point where I'm watching) to negatively affect whether they can be successful in a surgery—even one that ends in death.

Meet the Interns

Featured interns Meredith Grey, Izzie Stevens, Christina Yang, George O'Malley, and Alex Karev are all friends who are brilliantly eager to learn and show off their skills in surgeries that Attending and Resident Surgeons, Shepherd, Bailey, Montgomery, Sloan, Torres, and Burke allow them to scrub into.

The reason I'm writing about these people (particularly the interns, who have so much sex with each other, it gets ridiculous) is that even in their brilliance, they watch surgeries being performed (from the gallery above the O.R.) pining to see the breath-taking way many years of medical school save people's lives time and time again. They, most of the time, don't take it for granted that they're already super smart, skilled doctors who are doing their internships under the top surgeons in the area. They sit like panting puppies who press their faces against the window, waiting for the thrilling company of their owners (tails wagging and all).

The Angels Do the Same

This is the picture I imagined when I read a passage in the Bible where it talks about how the angels watch—in the same manner—the gospel of Jesus spreading from life to life. And as we've been in a season of pandemic, I doubt that many will say it's been sheer excitement watching COVID pass from body to body and life to life. It's nothing anyone gets excited about because it's a potentially deadly disease that many haven't been able to escape or live through.

However, the awesome gospel of Jesus Christ is so amazing that even the angels—who have rightful authority, higher than man's, to carry out God's bidding—pant and pine after watching the miraculous saving grace of Jesus touch and turn a life around, saving it from death in perpetuity. It's these majestic creatures—with front row seats to God's splendor—who eagerly watch what's going on with us on earth, seeing the timeless relay of the gospel being handed off and shared between lives. They do this with expectant anticipation because they know the treasured inheritance waiting on the other end once an individual receives the gift of salvation.

It's an endowment, a promise that will never fade or perish. No one can ever swipe any one of God's kids from His hand nor cheat Him of any soul He saves. It's a heavenly access that those who live by faith always have at their disposal. And these understand that no tricks or gimmicks are necessary to trust God and do what He says. This—ladies and gents—is the bottom line of true life. This—folks—is what we're here for. This—yawl—is why the angels, like the surgeon interns at Seattle Grace Hospital on Grey's Anatomy—eagerly watch what "goes down" here on earth ... They want to see people not miss the purpose for which they were put here.

Think on it.

It's well worth the thought.

*Scripture reference for this piece: 1 Peter 1:1-12