Some years ago it was thought that the human body, if reduced to salable items, would be worth only about a dollar. However, as scientists learned more about the body’s valuable chemicals and minerals, they revised the figure to $150,000! In today’s dollars, it would be much higher than that. Actually, the wonderful way the Creator has formed our bodies makes them priceless!
No one could ever make anything like a human body with its wonderful parts all working together. As one example, scientists speak of genes. These are tiny things called molecules in the cells that help determine, even before you are born, the kind of person you will be and how you will look. Genes help determine whether a baby will develop into a person who is quiet or lively, tall or short, and having a certain color to his or her skin, eyes and hair.
The human body is made up of some 37 trillion cells. Each cell contains 46 chromosomes, and every chromosome has hundreds to thousands of these tiny genes. Do you think these parts, so necessary for life, just happened to come about or perhaps took millions of years to develop? No — that would be impossible! Adam’s body was given all of these important parts when the Lord God created him, and the pattern has been passed on in the human race ever since.
Animals also have cells, chromosomes and genes, although they are not the same as those of a human. The most important difference is that it is only of humans that the Bible says, “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)). We each have a body, a soul, and a spirit, and all of them will go on forever in either heaven or hell. John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) tells us that if we believe in the Lord Jesus, we have “everlasting life.”
God cares so much about our bodies that He has numbered each of our hairs, and His promise about everlasting life includes the body as well as the soul. He has told us that when the Lord Jesus comes to take those of us who love Him to heaven, He will give each one a new body made “like unto His glorious body” (Philippians 3:2121Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (Philippians 3:21)).
Will you be one of those who receives such a wonderfully changed body and lives forever with the Savior in heaven? Or will your soul go on forever away from the Lord Jesus in outer darkness? Your genes do not determine the answer to that question. It is a decision you have to make!
Messages of God’s Love 11/27/2022