[Discoveries] 02-04-07 An act of worship

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works 
are wonderful, I know that full well. -- Psalm 139:14*/

I want to continue yesterday's thoughts with this:

The human body is made up of about 100 trillion cells and contains 
millions of different kinds of molecules. The blueprint for your entire 
body is somehow contained in each one of those 100 trillion cells, but 
nobody fully understands how to read it. You could argue that your body 
is one enormously complex chemical reaction, but no chemist can predict 
exactly what your body will do, or tell you how to fix it if something 
goes seriously wrong. From brain surgeons to cancer specialists, no 
doctor can claim to have all the answers. Even if you combine the 
insights of all the doctors in the world, there are many more questions 
than there are answers about how our bodies are made.

None of this surprises us.

But stop to think about this: Intricate though they are, our bodies are 
disposable; our inner selves are eternal. Jesus died on the cross not to 
save chemical reactions, but to save people -- eternal people. The time 
will come when we toss this body aside and claim a far superior model. 
Meanwhile, God salvages what is of eternal fascination to Him, the part 
of us that receives His deepest love -- our inner selves. All of this 
seems to say that our souls and spirits are probably far more complex 
than our bodies.

Letting people be complex is an act of worship. For many years I acted 
as though people were nothing more than sinners who needed repentance 
and salvation. While it is true that we need to repent, and while it is 
true that we need salvation, I was making an enormous mistake: I was 
turning people created in the image of God into stick figures, cardboard 
people like the targets we used to shoot at on the police pistol range.

I believe that God wants to engage us as the complex people that we are. 
Put another way, He wants to validate us. No, He doesn't approve of 
everything that we do. But He is here to begin an eternal relationship 
with Him -- a relationship so multifaceted that we will never get bored, 
and a hundred million years from now the honeymoon will have just begun.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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