BBD 02.02.09 Miracles
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02.02.09
Miracles
For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will
praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your
works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the
earth. - Psalm 139:13-15.
My great-grandfather's last name was Marical but one of his grandsons
pronounced the name, "Miracle" and some branches of the family do spell the
name that way. My mother's cousin, Winifred Marical, told his pastor that he
was "a walking, talking miracle." At his funeral the pastor said he did not
know that Winifred's last name was actually spelled, Marical, because he had
always said that he was "a walking, talking miracle" and he had been
Winifred's pastor for twenty years.
What is a miracle? It is an extraordinary event or thing unexplainable by
human means. That's my definition but I think that most people will agree
with it. Every person on this earth is "a walking, talking miracle," even
those who are unable to walk or talk because they are alive and that is a
miracle. In comparison to every other creature on this earth the human being
is extraordinary and marvelous. Even with all of the scientific advances
that have been made, man can still not create life of any kind much less
create a human being. The human body has yet to be reverse engineered
successfully. I would submit to you that even if man could build a human
being exactly like another human being on this earth that it still would not
become a living thing because only God can give life. We know all of the
elements that make up a flower seed but we still cannot make one from
scratch and make it grow into a flower.
Dr. John Medina, genetic engineer, University of Washington, in a 1995
lecture at Multnomah Bible College, Portland, Oregon said, "The average
human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a
lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, beating
2.5 billion times in a lifetime. The lungs contain 1,000 miles of
capillaries. The process of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide is so
complicated that it is more difficult to exchange O2 for CO2 than for a man
shot out of a cannon to carve the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin as he
passes by."
The heart and the lungs are extraordinary creations but there is also the
brain, and the thumb, and so many other incredible things that are contained
in the body of a human being. There are so many things that are still beyond
our understanding that are contained within the human body. Knowing the
incredible intricacies of our own bodies how can anyone deny that there is a
Creator? The Psalmist said it very well, "I will praise You, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul
knows very well." Praise God because you are alive, you have life, and that
is a miracle!
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