Miracle of the Body

It’s another great miracle we take for granted. That is, until we become very ill or contract a terrible disease. Then we realize the marvelous wonder called the human body.

The human body. Created by God, not pieced together by evolution. You would think every scientist and medical expert would just say, “Wow, what a God to create such a incredible miracle as a human being!” But the sins of pride and rebellion run from light and find comfort in darkness. And sin can transform a man recognized as intelligent into a fool.

When I look in the mirror, I see the miracle. I look past the wrinkles, graying hair and accumulating years. What’s inside my head? A brain with 100 billion nerve cells. Whole compartments that remain a mystery to the best experts. Memory. The ability to project past, present and future. Man’s greatest computers cannot rival the human brain. And it all fits neatly into the back of my skull.

What’s inside my two holes called eye sockets. Two eyes. So that if one fails, I still have another. Adjusting the focus of objects. Admitting different amounts of light. Correcting spherical and chromatic aberration. No wonder poor Charles Darwin admitted that to say that the eye could have been formed by natural selection would be “absurd in the highest degree.”

And what’s inside my chest cavity. Lots of miracle stuff. But the heart—oh the heart! The average heart beats 300 million times in a lifetime. It pumps 48 million gallons of blood in that lifetime and travels on a 60,000 mile journey every day! In fact, in the last 24 hours I breathed 24,000 times—in and out.

I admit I’m crying tears of awe and love as I write this. What a God! What a Creator! What a Father! Yes, tears. Another creative miracle to express those emotions from my brain of flesh that will one day die and my spirit that is deathless.

Now add to all the above your hands (go ahead, study them and behold the miracle of creation). Now ponder your whole skeletal structure—ribs, bones, joints—those marvelous feet. Ears that hear and define sound? Nostrils that breathe? A mouth with attractive lips rather than just a hole? A tongue that talks and tastes? Teeth—two sets—to chew food and show off a beautiful smile? And a final peek inside—two lungs no one can duplicate, two kidneys, pancreas, stomach, colon and a plumbing system that is beyond imagination! And we haven’t said anything about the miracle of conception!

No wonder the Psalmist said, “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). No wonder Paul marvels at God’s highest purpose for creating our miracle bodies; “The body is intended for the Lord, and the Lord is intended for the body (to save, sanctify and raise it again).”  (1 Corinthians 6:13 Amplified Bible).

So young soldier of Christ, take your stand for the Lord against teachers who offer other young people the big lie—that everything happened by “natural selection”. Tell them it happened by “supernatural election”, and that to believe otherwise is to believe in fairy tales.

"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
The ST. PAUL SCHOOL, with Frank Eiklor, Eileen Young and Cecilia Contreras