Some years ago it was thought that the human body, if reduced to salable items, would be worth only about a dollar. However, as scientists learned more about the body’s valuable chemicals and minerals, they revised the figure to $150,000! In today’s dollars, it would be even higher than that. Actually, the wonderful way the Creator has formed our bodies makes them priceless!
No one could ever construct anything like a living body with its wonderful parts all working together. For instance, scientists often speak of genes. These are molecules in the cell that determine, even before you are born, what kind of person you will be and that also make you similar to your father and mother in many ways.
The human body is made up of some fifty trillion cells, and each cell contains forty-six chromosomes, and every chromosome has hundreds of these tiny genes. Do you think these parts, so necessary for life, just happened to come about or perhaps took millions of years to develop? No - it would be impossible! Adam’s body was given all these important parts when the Lord God created him, and they have been passed on to all people ever since.
Scientific language uses code names such as DNA, GRF, CRF, TRT and others. These are abbreviations for terms describing how the various genes can determine whether a baby will develop into a person who is quiet or lively, tall or short, or having a certain color to his or her skin, eyes and hair.
All animals also have cells, chromosomes and genes, although they are not the same as man’s. The most important difference is that it was only of man that the Bible says, “The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:77And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)). The soul is part of our earthly life, but it will go on forever in either heaven or hell. God has lovingly invited us to make heaven our eternal home. It can be ours through faith in the atoning work of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary’s cross to pay for the sins of all who will trust in Him.
His promise about everlasting life includes the body as well as the soul. This assures us that when the Lord Jesus comes to take those of us who love Him to heaven, He will give each one a changed body “fashioned like unto His glorious body” (Philippians 3:2121Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. (Philippians 3:21)).
Will you be one of those who receives such a wonderful change and lives forever with the Saviour in heaven? Or will your soul live forever away from the Lord Jesus in outer darkness?
ML-12/10/2006