A member of our church loaned me the book, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made” by surgeon Dr. Paul Brand. He parallels the wonders of the human anatomy and physiology to the body of Christ. The more you study the human body, the more you see clear evidence that it is not the result of mindless evolution, but the remarkable design of God.
Every nation needs a way to defend itself from foreign invaders bent on terror and injury. God has designed such a protective feature into the human body. Each of us has a private army, made up of white blood cells.
We know that the red blood cells are essential for carrying fresh oxygen from our lungs to each cell. There they trade that oxygen for the cell’s by-product of carbon dioxide and carry it back to the lungs to be exhaled. But what about the white cells? If they are an army, what do they do?
The white cells are constantly on patrol through your blood and lymphatics, looking for any germs that might have gained entrance into your body through food or drink, or through a break in your skin. When they detect an invader, they immediately call for reinforcements and run to the scene to engage the enemy.
The white cells are like tiny bomb squads with their blast containment chambers. In effect, they contain the invader by swallowing it and then blowing it up so it can’t do you harm. Sometimes, when the enemy numbers are large, the battle rages on longer, and you experience fever and sore lymph glands. If your white cells are too few, your immune system isn’t able to protect you.
What is especially interesting is that when the white cell envelopes and destroys the germ, it often does so at the expense of its own life. What a picture of the work of the Lord Jesus! He saw the enemy of sin skulking around, seeking to lead you away from God. Rather than running away, He ran towards the fray, giving up His own life to save ours. “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.” (1 Peter 3:18).
Like a white cell, Jesus fully enveloped all of our sin, taking it upon Himself as though it were His own. “God made Him who had NO SIN to BE SIN for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus suffered the full brunt of the Father’s wrath against our sin. In so doing, Jesus died, but even death could not hold Him. After being dead for three days, He came back to life and walked out of His tomb.
The white cells are just one piece of evidence that, regardless if you were to give it a billion years or a trillion years, evolutionary changes would never come up with such a complex system of protection. You are not the result of random changes, but you have been hand-designed by God. Therefore, you owe Him your allegiance. Ask Jesus to take over the leadership of your life.
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