Your Marvelous Body

Your body, the repository of a thousand marvels, is a masterpiece of God’s handiwork. It is more wonderful than any machine that man’s ingenuity has ever invented.

Your brain consists of 10 billion cells and is capable of holding up some 15 trillion separate bits of information if developed to the full. This is more than all the knowledge contained by the 10 million books in the biggest library on the earth, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The problem is, because of mental indolence, we do not use a hundredth part of our mental capacity.

It is said that one scientist using his brain can wipe the whole city out of existence or send a 300-ton object orbiting around the sun just by pushing a button—a feat that not all the combined muscular strength of the more than 6 billion people can do.

Your heart, a little organ only as big as your closed fist, does a prodigious amount of work equal to the lifting of some 120 tons one foot a day.

And what shall I say more, for our limited space would not allow me to tell of the 707 arteries, 71 bones, 79 convolutions, 433 muscles, 230 nerves, 403 veins, etc, etc. Any book on human anatomy and physiology will tell you more of the other organs of your wonderful body.

This is the reason why God gave you instructions on how to care for this most wonderful of all machines. On the contrary, He gave us these injunctions so that we may live in an optimal health and lead an abundant vibrant life.

Our loving Father who knows best how to care for these bodies of ours does not want us to live in misery because of our “lack of knowledge”.