God Of CreationSýnishorn

Prayer: My Creator, thank you for designing humans with such complexity. Father God, thank you for filling me with the breath of life. Thank you for continually holding all existence together in and through Jesus Christ. Help me to better see your love for humanity as I better understand the care and creativity you put into making us. Amen.

Incredible Complexity

According to a 2013 research article by Dr. Strippoli et al., the average person has 37.2 trillion human cells in her or his body—not to mention the trillions of bacterial cells. To put that in perspective, there are about 5,000 stars in the night sky on a clear night visible to the naked eye. That’s a tiny number in comparison. So let’s use the number of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is about 100-400 billion stars. If we use the average of those estimates, that would mean that there are 150 times more of your cells in your body than there are stars in our galaxy!

If you are not a math and science person, this is the point—you are incredibly complex, the building blocks that make up you outnumbering the stars in the sky. The sheer vastness of our universe can make us feel small, but the complexities of our bodies show that God put an incredible amount of love and care into making each one of us. 

Elihu, the one wise human character in the Biblical book of Job, said that he was made by the Spirit of God and that he was given life by the breath of the Almighty. This claim recalls imagery from when the Lord created the first humans in the book of Genesis. He created everything in the world by speaking—the first thing that the Bible ever says that the Lord “touches” is a human being. God breathed into his nostrils and gave him life. Not only were the first humans fashioned by the hand of God—you were too. The breath of the Almighty gives us life, and we are continually sustained and held together by Him.

Questions to Ask Yourself:

1. God could have made us to be very simple but instead He chose to make us incredibly complex. Why do you think He decided to do this? What does it tell us about His character?

What’s Next? 

1. Set a timer, and spend 10 minutes thanking God for how He designed you with the utmost of care. Acknowledge your strengths and weaknesses, and consider how He can use your unique traits to glorify Himself & serve others.