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,

1st 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 1538,

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 949,

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.

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