The Wonder of Wonders
If only man were to discover God truly, he would become absorbed in the Lord’s wondrous feats of creation.
Looking at the human body from a purely physical point of view, it is made up of water, carbon, oxygen, and other chemical elements. As scientist Robert Pattison has done, one can even determine the price of material constituents of the human body. According to his calculations, their market value is about six and a half US dollars, about five hundred rupees in Indian currency.
However, out of these five hundred rupees worth of matter, God has created an incredible human being that no price can be set upon him. Not even five hundred billion rupees can buy the priceless masterpiece God has fashioned within the human frame.
One can appreciate the pricelessness of the human body when some part of it is lost. For instance, millions of dollars will not buy a new one like it if one loses a hand. If one loses one’s sight, all the wealth in the world will not win it back. If one’s power of speech fails one, there will be no tongue in the shops of the world that will put one’s thoughts into words.
How amazing that God should fashion something so wonderful out of things of such poor monetary value! Only He can bring the dead to life; He has the power to convert insensate matter into conscious life, to make something out of nothing.
If a magician were to cast a spell on a stone, making it break into speech, everyone would be spellbound at his feat. The feat which God has performed is one of much greater complexity. He has made the inanimate matter that constitutes man’s body into a moving, talking, thinking human being. However, God’s feat does not cause people to wonder. How blind are those who can see the skill of a conjurer’s magical feats but not the infinitely more incredible feats of God’s creation? How ignorant are those who rush to become devoted disciples of anyone able to perform false tricks without feeling any adoration for or attachment to the One who performs genuinely great acts of creative genius!
If only man were to discover God truly, he would become absorbed in the Lord’s wondrous feats of creation. Everything in the world would appear to him as a great sign of God’s power and perfection. While dwelling in an earthly abode, he would see and feel nothing but the Lord on high.
