Here's Your Body

We went to the St. Louis Science Center on a field trip today.  We stopped at a booth where kids can learn about genes and how dominant and recessive traits relate.  The display involved a game where two kids scramble traits and then create an animal with various parts.  At one point we reviewed the traits for the body style and color.  The college student handed my little girl a thing like a Mr. Potato Head and said, "Here's your body," in an amazingly casual way.

All of a sudden I responded to the young man, "Do you ever feel like God handing these things out?"  It was the funniest thing I heard all day!  I think that we often feel the way I felt watching that boy hand out bodies.  I don't care what you get, its all random, here's your body.

I think we all feel like that from time to time about our own bodies.  Here are some thoughts that bring us back to center.
1.  God knit you together in your mother's womb and you are wonderfully made.  The process is scientifically random, but God is lovingly particular.
2.  When you accept Christ, that random system that God created and sin corrupted becomes the vehicle for providing a temple for the Holy Spirit of God.  The body of a Christian becomes the temple of the Holy Spirit.  Sin is removed, a new creation is begun, and the Holy Spirit moves in.
3.  God is our healer.  Even if you feel like you were jipped in the randomly heartless, corrupted by sin, biological process, God is a healing God through Jesus Christ his son.  Trust him for healing, even if the Dr. says it is genetic.
4.  When I get to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, following the rapture and the resurrection of believers, I will hear God say, "Here's your body."  To get some blessing and detail, read 1 Corinthians 15 today.

May God bless your body today through Jesus our Lord.