Don't Miss the Miracle

For 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, I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)

Most people say they have never experienced a miracle, but the truth is, not a day goes by that we don't experience a miracle. For example, take this planet we live on - scientist tell us that Earth is spinning on its axis at a rate of 1,000 miles per hour while suspended in space. On top of that, this third rock from the sun is orbiting at a rate of about 67,000 miles per hour; that's about 87 times faster than the speed of sound, or 366 times faster than a race car at Talladega. And we did it all without noticing. On a Monday when it seems like you didn't accomplish much, remember that you traveled about 1.6 million miles through space

Not a big enough miracle for you? Then just look in the mirror. Every moment of every day your body is performing thousands upon thousands of functions you don't even notice. Every moment you are inhaling oxygen, metabolizing energy, digesting food, purifying toxins from your blood, directing muscles, processing data through multiple streams of information and much, much more. Your body is an incredibly complicated masterpiece of machinery. That 7lbs of brain in your head that runs everything in your body is making about ten quadrillion calculations every second. 

Ever feel like your brain is so full of information you have no room for more? That feeling is false! According to Northwestern University psychologist Paul Reber, the brain’s memory storage capacity is around 2.5 petabytes [1 petabyte ≈ 1,000 terabytes]. For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.

One more bit of "miracle" information - every individual person has a unique personal genome sequence that describes who you are. If your personal genome sequence were written out long-hand, it would be a three-billion-word book. By comparison, the King James Version of the Bible contains 783,137 words, so your genetic code is the equivalent of nearly 4,000 Bibles. No wonder the Psalmist wrote, "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

Everyday you not only experience a miracle, you are a miracle. There never has been and there never will be another you. You are fearfully and wonderfully made - that's not a testament to you, that is a testament to the one who knit you together in your mother's womb. He is a God of miracles, just look in the mirror. And every day there are miracles happening all around you, so don't miss the miracles. As Albert Einstein once said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Live the miracle that is you and that is your life!