The Wonders of God’s Creation
In the last issue we started a “make-believe” account that pretended you, the reader, thought it would be fun to put together another human being, if the body parts could just be ordered and assembled. In this imaginary account you had just received the many boxes of body parts, but were wondering about the wisdom of getting involved in such a project. Now let’s go on from there.
Turning the pages of the instruction book, you find a heading, “Heart, Lungs and Blood Vessels.” It reads, “Now that the bones are laid out, note that each one has tiny holes running through it. Pass the capillary blood vessels through these holes and connect them to the larger blood vessels leading to the heart and lungs, as shown in the diagram.”
At this point you give up. You haven’t even gotten to the part about the miles of large and small blood vessels and know that neither you nor any person on earth could possibly put them in their proper places. Nor have you yet read instructions for placing the brain inside the skull and connecting its thousands of nerves to other body parts, nor how to get eyes, ears, nose and mouth securely in their places.
And those millions and millions of cells! Where do they all go, and how are you to turn them into flesh and skin and other parts? You just don’t have the courage to even look at more instructions. All you now want is to get the foolish idea of making a human being out of your head and send the order back.
Well, this has all been “make-believe,” but perhaps this will help to impress each of us with how wonderful the human body is and how the Lord God alone can create it and give it a living soul: “The Lord God... breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:77And 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). This He did in a moment’s time when He made Adam out of the dust of the ground and also created Eve for a companion. What He has since arranged is also wonderful, in first creating a baby and having it fully develop after it is born.
No wonder David, the Psalmist, could make the expression in our above Bible verse — as he thought of the wonders of it all — and also write, “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in Thy book all my members [all parts of my body] were written... when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God!” Psalms 139:16,1716Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! (Psalm 139:16‑17).
Aren’t you glad to know that the Lord God is the One (and the only One) who can create life? Even if we could put a body together, we could not give it life. But it is no puzzle to God to put all our body parts together in perfect order and give us the breath of life. Let us never be deceived by the teaching of “evolution” which states that we came from monkeys or other forms of life. The teaching of God’s Word, the Bible, is where real truth is always found.
ML-11/27/1988