The Wonders of God’s Creation
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7.
Have you ever put a jigsaw puzzle together? Some of them are hard to do, but with patience you find that the pieces finally fit into one another.
Just to see what would happen (but never could), let’s make believe that you learned of a place where you could get parts for making a human body, and you think how nice it would be if you could make someone your size for a companion just by putting them together like a puzzle. So you send away for a full set (we’re still pretending, of course) and are full of excitement when it arrives.
Looking the packages over you note one is marked “Bones for Skeleton,” another reads "400 muscles,” and the label on yet another reads “Blood Vessels, Veins and Capillaries.” Moving these into your house, you temporarily leave behind others with a variety of labels, such as "200 Million Nerve Fibers,” "30 Feet of Digestive Tract,” “Body Cells — Red,” “Body Cells — White,” “Heart and Lung Parts” and many more.
After getting these all inside you pick up a book that came with them, entitled “How to Assemble Parts Follow Directions Carefully.” As you look over the instructions you begin to realize what a difficult “puzzle” this is going to be in putting everything together.
You continue reading; “Arrange skeleton first,” it says. “This is an extremely important foundation for all that will be attached to it! Be sure the 26 pieces of vertebra are in just the right position so the spinal column will be curved correctly and flexibly, but strong enough for its job.” It goes on to say, “Note that these pieces are hollow so the thick spinal cord, containing blood vessels as well as 21 pairs of nerves, can pass through it all the way from the brain to the hips. Be sure everything is kept absolutely clean. Follow the diagram for placing the 12 pairs of ribs in their right positions. Be careful that the hip bones are placed at just the right angle and those for the legs, as well as shoulders and arms, so they will be free to move in their socket joints at all times.”
About this time (in our “pretend” account) you are beginning to feel very uncomfortable and wonder if you can possibly follow all those directions accurately, plus the directions for the great number of other items that will have to be placed in and around these parts of the skeleton. Undoubtedly you would begin thinking, “I shouldn’t be doing this at all” as the opening Bible verse came into your thoughts and you realized that only the Lord God can really make a human being and give it life.
In the next issue we will learn what becomes of this “make believe” situation.
(to be continued)
ML-11/20/1988