What God Hath Wrought

             For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (Psalm139:13-14)

Readers’ Digest used to do articles called “I Am Joe’s ______” in which they would give some idea of what various parts of the body do. I don’t know of anyone who wouldn’t benefit from learning a little more about how their body functions. This morning, I saw a meme that said there are more atoms in the eye than in the Milky Way. Trying to research that in thirty seconds or less, I found another claim that there are more atoms in the eye than in the whole universe. Take those factoids with a grain of salt, because it seems unlikely that someone actually counted either.

In the Truth Project, Del Tackett (and his helpers) shared information about how blood clots and the impossibility of the random development of a chicken’s egg (which must have a limited number of pores for a chicken to survive to hatch.) This isn’t an anti-evolutionary or irreducible complexity rant, it’s simply that when you look at things, you often find them “fearfully and wonderfully made.” The human body and the universe are amazing, marvelous, and awe-inspiring – if you take time to consider them. Most of the time, we don’t consider them. They’re the props and stage setting for our personal dramas.

Granted, David probably didn’t know what we know today, but (as the saying goes) “familiarity breeds contempt.” If we shared with David what scientists know about the universe and our bodies today, he’d conclude that he was right, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, while we yawn and go back to looking for pictures of kittens on Facebook.

Today’s challenge is to pay attention and to learn something about the body, the universe, or whatever -  something that generates a sense of awe about what God hath wrought.