Sunday, December 27, 2009

From wonder to wonder

What a miraculous process this is. I don't understand how anyone having a baby can not believe in the Creator God. In reading week by week about her development, even a cursory pondering of the growth process reveals that only God could knit together a little human in the womb.

What does the heart form out of? Where does that first beat come from? How do the ears stop at the right place when moving up the head, and how are they always symmetrical? The eyes as well? Where do the ligaments and tendons start, at one bone or muscle and amazingly reach across to the right place on the other muscle? How does the placenta form from the baby and why does the baby not become tangled in the cord? How do all the organs form in the right place? How is our baby basically the same as every other in structure but completely unique in look, personality, fingerprints, and umpteen other distinguishing factors? How is this all possible? It can only be a miracle and the direct handiwork of God Himself.

My Dad has also been pondering these things more than usual as grandfatherhood has finally become a reality. He contests, and I agree, that the creation and development of a baby in the womb is even more miraculous than the creation of Adam from dust, but that because it happens every day, we miss the miracle. On Christmas Day after breakfast and before gifts, he read to us an article on all that happens with a baby's first breath outside the womb. The lungs, which have been maintained by the fluid-submerged body without yet conducting their function, expand and suddenly work the way they are supposed to for the rest of the infant's life. But the real mystery is how the heart changes its flow and very structure when the "hole" between its two sides closes over and fuses shut. You will be blown away by all that happens during the first minute after birth, and the ramifications of God's intricate design and His Son's confidence in it to become His Own creation.

The more I learn about our baby's development in the womb, the more I stand in awe (i.e. can't find words to express my wonder) of...God.

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