The Blueprint That Never Gets Filed Away

Every human body contains roughly 37 trillion cells. Each one carries the complete instructions for making you — your eye color, the curve of your jaw, the particular way your laugh sounds. Scientists call this the genome, and if you uncoiled all the DNA from a single cell and stretched it end to end, it would measure about six feet long. Six feet of coded information, folded with impossible precision into a space smaller than a period at the end of this sentence.

What stops you cold, though, is not the mathematics. It is the intention behind it.

When engineers at NASA design a spacecraft, they pour thousands of hours into the blueprints. Every bolt placement is deliberate. Every heat shield angle is reasoned out. Nothing is accidental. But even the most meticulous engineers eventually file the drawings away and move on to the next project.

God does not file you away.