How Life is Engineered

I believe that the Creator chose to enter this world as a man. Most believe that God would never show that degree of vulnerability. I believe that the core of the Good News is that God gave His own earthly life up so that we could live and be holy. Most believe that this is an idea invented in the West.

Coming home from our honeymoon, there were girls in our house waiting for us - long time friends of Hamroz, come to express excitement with us about the wedding (and to spend a night away from home). Upon realizing that they were already inside the house before we arrived, two forces tugged my soul in different directions. One, that everything I knew about life for myself was history. Another, that this is what I was created to do.

Our garden tree sits out in the sun performing a feat that no animal could ever pull off - capturing energy straight from the sun and storing it up as carbohydrates, fats and proteins. It is not designed to use all of that energy, it is designed to store it in fruit, together with vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and other things animals need (and trees don’t). The tree doesn’t live to feed animals because it has accepted a western mindset; it does so by design.

The struggle to properly express my love for Hamroz is a demonstration of the planetary war between human selfishness on the one hand and life from God on the other. Instead of being cared for on the ISK compound, would I take responsibility to run an independent household (boarders and all, since she wanted ‘em)? Instead of developing my own plans, I will work to establish a family. Instead of that salmon-rich diet, I’ll feed the guests. How sad it would be to live all for myself, yet the alternative is to voluntarily surrender my life.

At the center of every living cell, a huge DNA strand tears itself apart and, sporting thousands of tiny chemical “magnets”, attracts only organic materials (chemicals that have never been alive will not move) to form new strands according to the patterns of its own design. Plants end their lives to be formed into animal flesh. Animals end their lives to be formed into parts of other animals. Everything ends its life to fertilize the earth. Not just in the West – life in Asia works the same way. This surrender of life to sustain life is not weakness, but divinely appointed, very precise engineering. It is the central principle behind all life everywhere.

If the Creator came and lived among us, if He cared enough to participate in the food chain He Himself designed, can you imagine what eating the food His body produces would do to nourish you?