Wonderfully Made

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.  (Ps 139:14)

Have you ever stopped to consider the amazing creation that is man?  We are both similar and unique at the same time.  Similar in that we all have the same basic makeup.  The same design.  But the most important aspect is that we are all made in the image of God (Gen 1:27).  This, in and of itself, is an amazing concept, and a blessing, that I don’t think we will truly comprehend until we are with Him in eternity.

How about the things that make us unique?  Some things are obvious, skin, eye, and hair color, height and weight.  Any one of these things doesn’t make us unique; it’s in the combination of these things in which we start to see the things that make us different.  From there we can look at our fingerprints or the pattern of the retina in our eyes.  These further distinguish us from each other, even identical twins.  But let’s go deeper.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or DNA, is the blueprint for who we are.  There is DNA in each of our cells and scientists tell us we have about 100 trillion cells in our bodies.  DNA is strung together in chains of base pairs called a double helix (see the picture above).  These base pairs are combined from two of four nucleobases, or bases.  Only four! 

When God knit our bodies together in our mother’s womb (Is 44:2) He used these four bases, combined in pairs, to make our DNA.  We have about 6 million of these base pairs in our DNA.  It’s amazing that just these 4 bases can be combined in so many different combinations, each one unique. 

Just to give you an idea of how much DNA is in your body, if the DNA in an individual cell were to be uncoiled, it would be approximately 6 feet long.  If taken from your whole body, it would stretch to the sun and back.  Four times!  This is really just scratching the surface but I am sure you are beginning to see just how amazing a creation we are.  We truly are fearfully and wonderfully made!

Despite the uniqueness each of us possesses, God knows us.  In Mark 12:7 we are told the hairs on our head are numbered.  This goes beyond just knowing us; this is detailed knowledge.  That takes it to another level. 

God love us more than we can imagine.  This love is displayed in many ways.  He created us in His image.  He made each of us unique, using incredibly complex DNA.  He counts the hairs on our head.

Don’t discount yourself.  Each of us is an amazingly unique creation.  We are all children of God.  And deep down in our soul we know this.  Don’t deny yourself the blessings God has in store for you.  Take the time to thank Him for the time and effort He put into making you, unique among billions.