Do you know how special you are?
I know sometimes we forget so here’s your reminder.
My redeemer lives is an ancient hymn that I’m sure we’re all familiar with and enjoy. The lyrics are just precious. The questions posed by this song make my heart very happy now that I understand what they represent. Because who really taught the sun where to stand in the morning? And who had that much authority to tell all the oceans everywhere to stop where they stop since the beginning of time? Isn’t that wild?
If I were to write a few more verses to that song, these are the questions I’d ask. Who taught your heart to pump blood the way it does? How does your heart routinely get blood back from your feet without a pump? Gravity who? Who taught your epiglottis how to fold perfectly so that food doesn’t go down your trachea (windpipe)? I remember sniffing so hard one day that a booger from my nose (I am so sorry if it is gross lol I wouldn’t have told this story if it didn’t make the point I am trying to make clearer) flew to the back of my throat and almost went down my trachea. My cough reflex almost made me cough out my throat just to get that booger out so it does not make its way to my lungs. Who taught my body to do that? I know science has a lot of explanations to give on these things, but remember science is only reporting on things that are already in existence.
Imagine if we had to turn on a switch, like a light switch but for our hearts, so we don’t asphyxiate when we fall asleep. I think I’d be gone by now because I would definitely fall asleep without turning it on. I am happy that the one who made me knew me well enough to teach my heart to work by itself. Let’s not even get into how your kidneys take their shuffling business seriously, ensuring that things that need to leave your body don’t stay and those that should stay don’t leave.
Wait, who taught your kidneys to produce urine when they received blood?
Childbirth is an even wilder topic to move into. Have you seen a picture of how your rib cage looks? Who intentionally made them like that to perfectly cover your delicate heart and lungs?
If you are a science student, you are probably naming a bunch of other fascinating things about the human body that I did not talk about. However, if you are an art student and don’t know what I am talking about, don’t worry. I am just trying to say that when the Bible says that GOD wonderfully and fearfully made you (Psalm 139:14), it wasn’t playing. The intricacy of how your body is working even while you are reading this is just mind blowing. You are very special. Someone perfectly knitted you together with so much well-thought about details. GOD perfectly created you. You are special to Him; that should be enough. The next time you think that you don’t matter, just think about how there are perfectly placed valves in your heart, so your deoxygenated and oxygenated blood are not mixing. The details mehn!!
I pray you wake up everyday knowing that you are God’s masterpiece and you were created for good works (Ephesians 2:10).
Psalm 139:13
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
