Friday, June 8, 2007
Fasten your seat belt, science fans. These days it seems as if there's a blockbuster discovery almost every day in the rapidly expanding world of science. But few things have amazed me more than some of the recent discoveries coming out of the mapping of human genes, human cells, and the stuff of human life that we call DNA. You've lived in your body so many years you probably don't think much about it. Think about it for a minute. Your body has, according to the most recent research, ten trillion cells. Each of those ten trillion cells contains a strand of DNA that, if you uncoiled it, would be about six feet long. Now, here's what they're telling us. If you were to place each of those ten trillion strands in your body end to end - prepare to have your mind blown now - your DNA would span the solar system! Go take another look in the mirror.
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "The Miracle in the Mirror."
When King David wrote about his own being, it was some 3,000 years ago; long before people knew even a tiny fraction of the amazing stuff we know today about just one human being. But even then, with the little he knew, he penned these words, recorded in Psalm 139, our word for today from the Word of God, and actually amplified by these recent discoveries.
Beginning in verse 13, he says to God, "You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful ... All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be." Imagine. God gave you your worth from birth - actually, before birth. Most of what you are today was all there in your genetic code, basically from the moment you were conceived. No one on earth gave you your worth, and no one on earth can take it away.
God ordained the number of days of your life before you lived even one of them. You are, in essence, immortal until your work is done. Fast forward to the New Testament, and you read this encouraging and amazing description of who you really are: "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do" ( Ephesians 2:10). Just think, there's a plan made by God with your name on it, and you've been wired by Him to make a unique difference in your short time on this planet.
He started you. He'll decide when you're done here. He's the One who knows why you're here. Question: Do you belong to this awesome God who you were made by and made for? The Bible says we've actually turned away from this majestic Creator of ours to do our own thing. It's got a name. It's called sin. And it took God becoming one of us, from the womb to the tomb, to give us a chance to get back to Him. That's what Jesus died on the cross to do. He died for your sins so you don't have to. He was abandoned by God the Father on the cross so you don't ever have to be.
And that hole in your heart that's never gone away can only be filled by the awesome God who made you; who we can only get to by giving ourselves to Jesus, the only Bridge to our Creator. Maybe you've never actually put your life in the hands of the One who gave you your life and who gave His life for you. You can do that right now, by telling Jesus, "I'm Yours, Lord."
I'd love to help you begin this relationship with Jesus if you'll just go to our website. I've put a simple explanation of how to get started with Him. The website is yoursforlife.net. I hope you'll check it out today. Or if you'd like my booklet Yours For Life you can just call for it at 877-741-1200.
You woke up this morning away from the awesome God who made you. You can go to bed tonight, knowing that you belong to Him forever.