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How do your bones grow?

I have been nose deep in textbooks lately and that has reduced my time for prayer and Bible reading, which usually ends in these Devotionals. It’s funny though. Even in an anatomy textbook it is easy to see God. Last week we learned all about bones, muscles and the nervous system. (Hang in there. I have a point.) We learned that babies are not formed inside the womb with bones, babies ‘bones’ are cartalidge that slowly fuses together (I won’t go into more detail) to create the strong bones of an adult. That’s why children are more delicate.
Here’s the thing. Yes, that’s amazing, but get this. There’s this verse in Ecclesiastes where God says:
Ecclesiastes 11:5 KJV
[5] As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Back then there is no way that they already knew that inside the body of the mother, her baby’s cartilage was fusing together to create bones. Yes I do realize that much of our initial understanding of medicines and chemistry came from the East in the early days, but not this early of early. God speaks to the writer of this book about a concept that the writer would have no way of knowing without a Devine God who told him. Imagine God saying to a person who would have known many things about what was ‘modern medicines in that time and brings up a concept that he couldn’t even fathom. “Grow God? What do you mean, grow?”
Now. Before you say God might have been meaning that the bones would grow in length inside the womb as though I did not understand that. I know they grow longer. Guess why? The cartilage forming together to create an actual bone. You know how doctors say that babies can’t sit up because their spines are not yet fused? This is that. It counts for all bones from the big long bones to the tiny irregular bones. God made it that way so the baby could come out of the mother without harm to it. Now. I don’t think it’s that way with large animals. Puppies and kittens yes, but cows and horses I believe are already semi fused bones, but you would need to ask your vet. Here is my point. God is crazy amazing. He thought of everything! He even scolded a man using medical knowledge years beyond his time. Every detail from the cilia in your lungs to the autonomic beat of your heart, has been planned and counted and cared for. Even in the bad days, God is still I’m charge and knows what He’s doing. Stop doubting Him! He loves you, always. Just copy your parasympathetic nervous system and relax in knowing that Jesus has hold of you, every inch, and He knows what He is doing.

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