Life got you down? Is your faith being tested? Have you given up on miracles? We all go through it. You need a little reassurance. Maybe you need to see an actual miracle in action.
No problem. Just follow these instructions: Walk into your nearest bathroom. Look in the mirror. Carefully observe the image you see there. You will be staring into the eyes of a divine creation that defies all logic.
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You will be looking at a life form whose heart is beating, whose lungs are breathing, whose food is digesting, whose temperature is being regulated and stabilized, all without any effort whatsoever. A body whose eye pupils automatically adjust to light conditions. If physical activity becomes strenuous, a body that will perspire to release heat. Its liver, kidneys, bladder, glands and blood vessels all perform critical functions that require no conscious work.
Complex being
The person in the mirror has a brain roughly the size of a grapefruit. Yet it holds somewhere around one hundred trillion bits of data, memories and information. It can perform about 50 completely independent tasks at the same time. And again, most of these are done with no conscious effort. When that body needs to sleep, all of these necessary operations continue without pause, while restoring used up cells and replacing skin surface.
The idea that any living being could be so complex, yet so perfectly efficient, capable of vast intelligence, emotion and imagination, is impossible. The odds of it happening through random chance or evolution are so long as to be statistically unworkable. Yet there it is, right in front of your eyes. Isn’t that basically the definition of a miracle? Something impossible that happens anyway?
It’s you. You are the miracle. And the fact that you exist means God is still there and working similar impossibilities around you every day, every moment. “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well” (Psalm 139:14). King David wrote that 3,000 years ago. He saw it then, perhaps in his own reflection.
And the greatest miracle of all is yet to come. Forgiveness of sin and ascension to an eternal, heavenly home. Now that’s something to live for.
EDITOR’S NOTE — Ken Lass is a retired Birmingham television news and sports anchor and an award-winning columnist for numerous publications and websites.
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