Psalms 139:14. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Anyone who understands anatomy will tell you that man is strangely formed. So fearfully are we made that our life stands in constant jeopardy; it looks as if every breath might be our last, and every pulse might speedily end our life. You cannot examine a blood vessel - especially some of the very small ones - through a microscope, without being utterly astonished. Any medical man will tell you that there are many times in an hour,-perhaps even in a minute,- in which a very simple thing would put our life in imminent peril of destruction; truly, we are "fearfully and wonderfully made."
Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange, that a harp of thousand strings
Should creep in tune so long.
Every man is a world of wonders; he need not go abroad for miracles, for he is himself a marvellous and miraculous combination.
Psalms 139:14. Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
How there can be a compound of spirit and matter,- how the earth on which we tread should enter into our composition, and yet we should be akin to angels, how there can be something about us that links us with the dust, yet much about us that joins us to God himself,- these are extraordinary things which we do not understand. Where is the point in which the spirit touches materialism? How is it that the will can move the hand or the finger? How does spirit act on matter? Those are questions much more easily asked than answered.
Psalms 139:14. For I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Anyone who understands anatomy will tell you that man is strangely formed. So fearfully are we made that our life stands in constant jeopardy; it looks as if every breath might be our last, and every pulse might speedily end our life. You cannot examine a blood vessel - especially some of the very small ones - through a microscope, without being utterly astonished. Any medical man will tell you that there are many times in an hour,-perhaps even in a minute,- in which a very simple thing would put our life in imminent peril of destruction; truly, we are "fearfully and wonderfully made."
Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange, that a harp of thousand strings
Should creep in tune so long.
Every man is a world of wonders; he need not go abroad for miracles, for he is himself a marvellous and miraculous combination.
Psalms 139:14. Marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
How there can be a compound of spirit and matter,- how the earth on which we tread should enter into our composition, and yet we should be akin to angels, how there can be something about us that links us with the dust, yet much about us that joins us to God himself,- these are extraordinary things which we do not understand. Where is the point in which the spirit touches materialism? How is it that the will can move the hand or the finger? How does spirit act on matter? Those are questions much more easily asked than answered.