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"Know that the LORD, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture."
(Psalm 100:3)
Today, we will continue to focus on our health and how God has blessed us with these physical bodies. Psalm 139 states that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our text for today plainly says that God made us; we did not create ourselves. We know this deep within our souls because there is no way we could have just appeared over eons of time through some mass mutation and natural selection. Isaac Newton said a person should believe in God just by looking at his or her thumb!
Speaking of the beauty and complexity of our human bodies consider these amazing facts: your heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through its chambers every day; you take in 17,000 breaths a day without having to even think about doing it; your brain processes 50,000 thoughts every day; the cells in your stomach lining produce an alkaline substance that neutralizes stomach acid (which is strong enough to dissolve certain metals) to keep your stomach from digesting itself; your eyes can make 100,000 different movements and blink 28,800 times every day to keep them moist and clean; the largest organ in your body, your skin, sheds more than one million skin cells every day; your brain and mouth work together seamlessly to speak 5,000 words a day (if you are a female; males average only 2,000 words a day); your kidneys filter over 2 pints of blood every minute while also getting rid of 2.5 pints of urine every day; your liver identifies nutrients you need and stores them away, filters 1.5 quarts of blood every minute, and produces a quart of bile each day to help break down your food. ( Source.)
More interesting factoids about these amazing creations and designs called the human body (from ChatGPT):
- Your DNA: If you uncoiled the DNA from just one cell, it would stretch about 6 feet long—and you have ~37 trillion cells. That's enough DNA to reach the sun and back multiple times.
- Your immune system: Every day it identifies, targets, and destroys thousands of potential threats, remembers past invaders, and adapts on the fly—like a microscopic intelligence agency operating 24/7.
- Your balance system: Tiny fluid-filled canals in your inner ear detect movement in three dimensions, letting you walk, run, and spin without falling over (most of the time).
- Your eyes and brain together: Your eyes technically see everything upside down; your brain automatically flips the image, so reality makes sense—without you ever knowing it's happening.
Reading all this makes me want to do a couple of things: one, praise God for making us the way He did, and two, express my thanks to God not just with words but actions committing afresh to take care of what God has given to me.
How about you? What do you think when you read about the complexity and miraculous nature of the physical body God has given you? Will you join me in thanking God and also in committing to being good stewards of what God has given us?
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