Wounds That Glow In The Dark
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
One of the greatest battles of the Civil War took place in Tennessee in 1862. It was called The Battle of Shiloh. There, Confederate General Johnson led a surprise attack against the Union and General Ulysses S. Grant. One hundred and ten thousand men began to fight each other, and it ended with 23,746 casualties and injuries across the field of Shiloh. Back then, they did not have modern medicine, and after the battle, people were lying all over the field, hoping someone would find them before they died. It was nearly impossible to spot the wounded among the dead soldiers because thousands were lying all together on the ground. But that night, when the sun set, something strange began to happen. It’s what history records as the “angel glow.”
When they looked out on the field, they noticed some of the soldiers’ wounds mysteriously glowing. They didn’t realize what had happened for 140 years until 2001 when a high school senior heard this story and told his mother, who was a biologist. After conducting much research, they made an interesting discovery about why the wounds seemed to glow.
The presence of blueish-green luminescent bacterium was aiding the healing of those men. It inhabited the growth of other bacteria, which came from worms. These worms would come up in the mud and rain and regurgitate something in their stomach that would get in the wounds and attack infection. The worms were providing an antibiotic to the wounded soldiers! The doctors soon discovered that most men with the glow would survive. The research said, “Moreover, their injuries appeared to heal faster than the non-glowing counterparts.”
God does not waste trials, tribulations, tragedies, pain, and suffering. It is not guaranteed that you will not go through things, but it is promised that God will be there to comfort you, and when He brings you to the end of the story, you will be able to comfort others with the same comfort He gave you. Your testimony can be medicine to another person’s wounds.
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