Your Amazing Body
Psalm 139:13-14 You formed the way I think and feel. You put me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was!
The body that you and I live in is something that we take largely for granted. It’s just … there. It’s been there as long as we can remember and sometimes we live as though it’s going to go on forever.
As life expectancy around the world increases, there’s a dark cloud on the horizon. Sure, in most places the fatal impact of the really big diseases have been dealt with. Smallpox and polio are no longer a thing. Malaria, more and more, is being mitigated through. When there’s an outbreak of a contagious disease that can kill, health authorities, mostly, move quickly to contain it. No, it’s not perfect, but things are much, much better than they were.
And yet cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and stroke, diabetes and cancer are skyrocketing out of control. Why is that? Well, the answer’s simple. The so-called western diet – high in refined carbohydrates and bad fats – is quite plainly killing us. And that’s a tragedy, because you and I have such an amazing body.
Each second your body produces twenty-five million new cells. Your heart pumps reliably a hundred thousand times a day, day after day, year after year. In just one square inch in the palm of your hand you have about nine feet of blood vessels, six hundred pain sensors, nine thousand nerve endings, thirty-six heat sensors and seventy-five pressure sensors. And if I could string every piece of DNA in your body end to end, it would stretch to 250 round trips to the sun and back! Yep, you are completely amazing!! And why wouldn’t you be? As the psalmist says to God:
You formed the way I think and feel. You put me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because you made me in such a wonderful way. I know how amazing that was! (Psalm 139:13-14)
And yet there’s every chance that the western diet is killing you. Yesterday, what did you put in your mouth? Lots of healthy, colourful, tasty vegetables, some good olive oil and healthy, unprocessed meats? A few nuts perhaps for those four o’clock munchies?
Or a whole bunch of refined, processed, manufactured rubbish that, cell by cell, organ by organ, limb by limb, is destroying this miraculous body that God has given you?
Because we are what we eat, and eventually, something has to give.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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