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.
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