“I am fearfully and wonderfully made”
August 19, 2008 (Tuesday)
Every once in a while my mind seems to take off on its own to explore interesting subjects. Usually I see or hear something that launches me into a train of thoughts in which one thought leads to another.
I think it was a skeleton being used as a prop in a classroom scene on television that got me to thinking about the marvelous design of human anatomy. I normally think of myself as a unit. I have a name and address. I am one person. There are, however, nine basic systems that work together that make up the one body.*
The design of the body in basic systems reminds me of the design of automobiles with which I became familiar when working in an assembly plant when I was a seminary student. Each automobile was put together in three separate departments: body, chassis and trim. The cars of that era were made up of those three elements. The body is what we see when a car rolls down the street. The chassis is the mechanical part that powers and guides it. The trim is the carpet, upholstery, instrument panel, accessories, etc. It would be foolish for anyone to say that an automobile is not designed. It literally screams, “I was designed and built according to a plan. Every part of me has a purpose.”
The systems that make up the human body are also designed. They are all brought together with uncanny ingenuity. The body, like the automobile, screams the same message: “I was designed and put together according to a plan. Every part of me has a purpose.”
The Scripture says it plainly, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made”
(Psalm 139:14).
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Link to Human Anatomy Online