“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” Romans 12:1
January 2, 2023
It should go without saying that the life we live is done so with a physical body. The human body is a gift from God. Its creation was a work of divine artisanship. The human eye alone is marvelous in its capabilities and resilience, “He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye does He not see?” (Psalm 94:9). The psalmist is telling the reader that our ears and eyes are to remind us of God’s hearing and seeing and our accountability to Him. The body was made to function for the glory of God. Think of it. From the dust of the ground the human eye was formed. It has 107,000,000 cells. Seven million cells are cones – each loaded to fire off a message to the brain when a few photons of light cross them. These cones function with a full band of color awareness. Because of them we can distinguish a thousand shades of color. The human brain receives billions of simultaneous reports from eye cells. All the better to remind us that our eyes are a gateway through which millions of messages are transmitted to our thought processes. This is the occasion for thankfulness to God for the beauty we see in His creation, and this is only a hint at how magnificently our eyes will take in the sights of the new heavens and the new earth. Paul tells us that our eyes are to be instruments of righteousness until we close them in death. Those commercials that bombard us on the TV send a lot of values that can be deadly. Watch out! Make sure that biblical truth stands guard at the doorway of our body which, for the Christian, is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19).
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“O Lord who sees all things, open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” Psalm 119:18