The Human Hand - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

This is part one of a two part series on the mightiness of God's crown of creation. To see part 2 of this series, click here. The Human Heart - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.

My wife and I were just discussing our hands the other day. Yes, I know, that’s an unusual topic of conversation, but we looked at our hands and saw with amazement, how they are formed, shaped, made, constructed, I mean fashioned. Oops, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that our bodies were in any way created, I just can’t think of the right word. What I meant to say was that our bodies have been developed in a very structured orderly way.

I am not a scientist so you can write me off if you want, but I can recognize a great wonder when I see one.

If you (at least most of you) look at one of your hands, you’ll see five fingers – well, actually four fingers and a thumb.  You will see three segments or phalanges on each finger, but on the thumb, only two. The human hand, with the wrist, has 27_[i] total bones in it.

You will find three “knuckles” or “interphalangeal joints” (where the fingers bend between phalanges) on each finger, but on the thumb, only two that protrude past the webbing of the fingers.

According to the website eatonhand.com, each hand has:

• 29 major and minor bones (many people have a few more).
• 29 major joints.
• At least 123 named ligaments.
• 34 muscles which move the fingers and thumb:
• 17 in the palm of the hand, and
• 18 in the forearm.
• 48 named nerves:
• 3 major nerves.
• 24 named sensory branches.
• 21 named muscular branches.
• 30 named arteries and nearly as many smaller named branches.

The bible says: 

     “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19.1) and
     “The heavens declare his righteousness.” (Psalm 97.6)

However, you won’t have to even look up to see his glory. You can still see it by looking down at your hand, for the same bible states:

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvellous are thy works;
and that my soul knoweth right well. (Psalm139.14)

As I looked down at my hand that day, I said; “It amazes me how all of that just happened.

Dear friends, it really takes more faith on our part to believe that the amazing formation of the human body happened by chance over time and that it randomly happened to us all in the exact same way. I realize we are not all formed perfectly, but the exception only enhances the rule. This kind of faith is not based on actual evidence but upon believing what we want to believe and what is convenient. When I see a magnificent structure, I know that there is an architect. I cannot accept that it got there by chance.

I have news: THERE IS A GOD!

I have very good news: HE GAVE US A SAVIOR- HIS SON!

Now, go read the bible and find out more about him.

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[i] 29 if you count the sesamoid bones in tendons of flexor pollicis brevis and adductor pollicis – quiznet