Hello, and welcome to Enbolden, living a bold Christian life. I'm Chris Shutter, an ordinary Christian living with and learning about an extraordinary God. Thank you for joining me on spending 30 days of praising God. Today's praise was inspired by John 137, and Jesus replied, You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.
In about 10 weeks, I'll be a first time grandma, so exciting. And even though I've personally experienced the miracle of childbirth twice, I still find the whole thing well, a mystery. When I look at an obviously pregnant woman, it still fascinates me that there's a living, breathing, being inside that, well, stomach. It all seems so alien-like.
And that's what my praise focuses on today, the amazing mysteries of God. As we humans have moved along our timeline, science has become its own religion. We must quote, Follow the science, and accept that quote, science explains everything. I can see why Jesus, in particular, loved children and childlike acceptance of God, because children like to ask the wise.
We can say we understand that a woman gets pregnant because a man's sperm meets a woman's egg. But can we really explain things like, Why does a woman release an egg on such a regular basis? Why does one group within a species only have eggs, and the other has sperm? And how a sperm knows the path to the egg, and that it should break through the barrier of the egg to enter it?
And once it does, we know a process begins whereby DNA strands begin multiplying over and over creating that beautiful little baby. But why? We humans certainly love to fool ourselves into thinking we have a lot of control over what and how things happen on this planet. We think we can control the climate.
Yet the world's climate has been changing back and forth since before humans were in abundance. Droughts, torrential rain, terminados, hurricanes, blizzards, none of these can be made or controlled by man. Of course, if we remove God from the equation, then we think we can get to the root cause, meaning man, and fix or change everything. The other day I was out for a walk, and I just started thinking and praising God for this amazingly biodiverse and mysterious world he plopped us right into.
Thanks to him for the air that is just right for me to breathe freely, for the food that literally just grows on trees, for the process of rain and fresh water, for the mystery of making a baby inside our bodies, how everything gets rearranged just right to accommodate that growing child, and how we still don't know why our body says it's time to be born. I know there's a lot of smart people out there that can sound a lot more sciencey than me when talking about how things work on this planet. And when I get into those conversations and keep asking, but why, but how? The answers always find their end.
Science will never be able to answer the final why. But as a Christian, I know I can say, because God, have a blessed day. I'd love to hear from you and find out more about how you are living out your bold Christian life. You can find me on Instagram at embolden-the-o, or at my blog at embolden.net.