Me: Is that an old blood pressure machine?

Prodigal: Yes!

Me: I am glad that somethings have improved with time.

This is from the book Exceeding Gratitude for the Creator’s Plan by James P. Gills, M.D.

The statement, “The life is in the blood,” is not only good theology, but also good biology. The body has sixty thousand miles of blood vessels, a distance nearly two and one-half times around the Earth of the equator. Red blood cells (RBC’s) are of critical importance to life. Red blood cells are tiny but plentiful. We each make over two million RBC’s every second. If we took them all out of our body and laid them side by side, they would go around the Earth at the equator four times.

The necessary element to healthy RBC’s is oxygen. All fires require oxygen, including the energy-releasing fire within our cells. The body has an ingenious mechanism to transport oxygen into the tissues. When oxygen is inhaled into the respiratory tract, it snuggles up against the thinner-than-paper lining of the lung wall. Immediately on the other side of this wall are capillaries. The favorable diffusion coefficient attracts the oxygen molecule across the lining and into the capillary blood stream, where other mechanisms are needed to finally use the oxygen efficiently for sustaining life.

God figures out all the details too.

For I am no ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation….For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

Romans 1:16-17

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org