November 14, the marvel of creation. Someone will ask, how are the dead raised,

with what kind of body do they come? You foolish person, what you sow does not come to life

unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel,

perhaps of wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He has chosen

and to each of the seeds its own body for Corinthians 15, 35 to 38.

I have been picking up little things in scripture that show God's intimate involvement in creation.

For example, here in 1 Corinthians 15, 38, Paul is comparing how a seed is planted in one

form and comes forth in another form with a body different from all other bodies. He says,

God gives it a body just as He wished. And to each of the seeds its own body,

my translation, the original does not say he gives to each kind of seed a body,

but to each and every seed its own body. This is a remarkable statement of God's intimate involvement

in the way God designs each seed to bring forth its own unique plant, not just species,

but each individual seed. Paul is not teaching about evolution here, but he is showing how he

takes God's intimate involvement with creation for granted. Evidently, Paul cannot imagine

that any natural process should be conceived of without God's doing it.

Again, in Psalm 94 9 it says, he who planted the ear, does he not hear, he who formed the eye,

does he not see? The psalmist assumes that God was the designer of the eye and that he designed

the way the ear is planted in the head to do its hearing work. So when we marvel at the wonders

of the human eye and the remarkable structure of the ear, we are not to marvel at the processes

of chance, but at the mind and the creativity and the power of God. Similarly, in Psalm 95 5,

the sea is his for he made it and his hands form the dry land. The involvement of God in making

land and sea is such that the present sea is his. It's not as though in some impersonal way

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