Throughout my life I’ve experienced many medical treatments, tests, and surgeries but one of the most common “accessories” that follows almost every patient is an IV pole. This pole carries all your monitors that keep track of your heart rate, medicines, and bags filled with saline that keeps you hydrated. Each have a role to keep you functioning and sets you up well for whatever your about to go into and recover from. Most people know what an IV is, but they don’t know how each piece place a role in what is being given to you. Today, I want to write about each piece and the how the Lord pieced together this understanding of his miraculous steps we often forget the importance of.
An IV is described as a “Existing or taking place within” or “To administer into” (Intravenous)
When reading the full name of what an IV does it had me thinking of God because He is intervening in our lives daily, but sometimes we don’t see all of the details within us. He is existing within and has taken our place on the cross. When He is speaking to us He is “Administering” truth, love, grace, compassion, and all we need to continue to recover from past hurts or scars. He wants to fully heal us.
(Ad-minister When He is ministering to us he is adding something that was missing to our hearts.)
An IV Pole:
Something so necessary but often over looked is the pole that holds everything so that you can freely move around and get from place to place during your stay. That is the foundation of our hearts without this pole we would have to carry all of our bags, tubes, and medicines. Without this foundational pole there would be no reason or desire to keep moving forward with all that to carry around. With God as a steady foundation we can manage all that is going on around us and happening within that we have freedom from bondage and baggage. If we keep Him center then nothing can hold us back from our recovery.
Saline Bags:
This is a special kind of water that has chloride mixed in it that makes it safe to flow through our veins. This is something you will receive daily as well and can help you stay hydrated and keeps your medicines flowing throughout your body without having to take it orally. The saline reminds me of how the word of God should flow through us. Without this constant flow of life giving words of encouragement, joy, and hope we begin to get dry inside and forget the living water. He gives us living saline to reach others who need refreshment in there hearts. You cannot give what you do not have and an example of that is you cannot give a transfusion to save someone if your blood is weak or you are malnourished. Are you staying hydrated during your own recovery to prepare for what lies ahead to keep fighting those moments?
Dip Chamber:
This small piece between your saline bag and connected to you’re tubing has a major role for your body. It delivers a combination of saline, vitamins, and electrolytes not your body to get nutrients and energy. This particular part of the IV reminded me of how the Holy Spirit moves on our behalf and there are two ways to see how it works.
1.) Saline = God’s Word
Vitamins = Our Worship
Electrolytes = Holy Spirit
- Saline is what you need daily and should flow throughout our lives.
- Vitamins are something some people choose to take or not take just like when we choose to worship or not. But when we allow it into our lives it repairs deep inner missing wounds or lack of response. Sometimes we don’t know what we need until we pay attention to our “body” or our posture of heart.
- Electrolytes give transmissions (Hold mission in your mind) and impulses to muscles and nerves. The Holy Spirit helps us receive transmissions or impulsive actions to what God is calling us to do and to act on. It transforms what might have started as a feeling not action and becomes a passion for God to use in our life. The mission or calling that gives us that boost of energy to try something we wouldn’t naturally do on our own understanding.
2.)
The Drip Chamber only allows so much liquid into the chamber and with that the drips drop slowly into the main stream of saline. This is the part we want more of so we can get back to “normal” but God intended for us to receive the goodness throughout the process we are faced with. What would be the point of the other parts if we could just have the drip as our saline? Little drops by little drop God is giving the saline, vitamins, and electrolytes to continue on the road to full recover, but we couldn’t handle all of it at once because our bodies would reject thatch and we would no longer need a three in one. (All Three Listed Above) Although it feels like it’s in slow motion your body is receiving all the small drops and turning it into strength. I remember when I was recovering from a major surgery the nurses had given me a little remote that had one button that was supposed to give you some extra pain meds if you needed it, but in my mind it was supposed to give me all “I” needed or felt like I needed because I was hurting so much. Most of the time I would get very frustrated because my body was saying I needed more pain medication, but once I had used the dosage I was allowed it would lock the little button to make sure I wouldn’t overdose. Thinking of this story I remember the physical agony I was in and sometimes I think we feel the agony more when we don’t feel a soliton or it doesn’t come easily like we hope. It takes time for medication to work and although God can do all things sometimes He asks us to endure and press into him and not rely on an instant relief. God never gives us more then we can handle and just like the chamber gives us what we exactly need so does our heavenly father.
The Tubing:
This one is the simplest to remember.
- One Tube
- One Liquid Inside
- One Way (Jesus)
– You still have a choice to trust in the process, but there is one way to receive Jesus. Believing in your foundation (Pole) Believing in His words (Saline Bag) Receiving from the drip and surrendering our wants and trusting Him with our needs.
Needle/Cannula Tube:
We’ve listed so many little details and the last two things are just as crucial because it’s the first thing you need to begin this process of recovery. In order to receive all those things we must go through pain. Everyones least favorite part is the needle that must be introduced to our sensitive veins. The smell of alcohol prep pads always remind me of what is to come and the thing I’m about to walk into like a surgery. I have the smallest veins so I’m always a hard person to stick! Sorry to all my nurses who I ever made feel insecure about their profession and all the practice sticking people because little did you know you’d be getting a challenge today! We all have memories of our hurts and pains we don’t want to face but didn’t Jesus feel the same way? Didn’t he experience pain in similar ways…
- The prayer in the garden to prepare…
- The temptation to quite and walk away…
- The nails into his wrist…
But there is hope… Where there is pain flows healing.
The pain is necessary in order to receive the healing and true understanding of who God is.
Once the pinch of the needle has pierced your vein the needle is no longer needed and the pain vanishes. The only thing left in your hand is called a “Cannula” and once its inside the flow begins. When we decide to receive Jesus He is the one who take our pains and struggles and carries them for us just like our pole. He gives hydration and words of hope through saline to flow within us so we never doubt what may come because it never changes. The drip chamber gives us the three in one and through all three we learn that he has us in every area even when we don’t feel the change in the process. When we are connected to God the (Tubing) we are reminded that he is our provider and our one way. We can be reminded that even though the journey may start painful like the needle that He’s got us inside and out (Cannula) and through the pain He is about to show us how painful moments can bring beautiful flow.
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