No 13

(Day 6 – creation of man)

Man….God’s chef d’œuvre. Up to now (Gen 1 : 26) all that God created was in preparation for man. It was as if the Lord was making a home for the beloved of His creation and wanted everything to be perfect. He made sure that the atmosphere was just perfect and that ample food was available. God made man sinless and was therefore, able to have direct communion with him every day (Gen 3 : 8). Sin, of course messed all this up. However, in a non-spiritual sense, God made our bodies like well-honed machines that reproduce themselves, feed themselves and repair themselves. No man-made machine can do these three things. God did not miss out on anything. To even imagine that we evolved from lower species is a sacrilege. The Bible says : “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them” (Gen 1 : 27). Here is one small example of how our bodies are absolutely amazing, there are many others, but this one really hit me. There is a muscle in our bodies that we use only once in our entire lives, at birth. The baby, as it comes out of the mother’s womb, has a muscle that closes off the flow of blood from the mother and switches the flow of blood to its own lung-oxygenizing system. Never again is this muscle used in that person’s life. Isn’t that amazing? What about our brains? Isaac Asimov, an accomplished scientist, a science fiction author and an admitted atheist once said this startling statement : “The human brain is the most complex organism in the entire universe”. For him to have said that, he must have come to realize what Christians have known all along – we have an awesome God.