The Cells That Refuse to Let You Stay Broken

Every second of every day, your body is performing an act of quiet redemption. Scientists estimate that the human body repairs roughly 70,000 DNA lesions per cell per day. That is not a typo. Every single cell in your body sustains tens of thousands of breaks, miscopies, and damage events from ordinary living — sunlight, breathing, the simple act of metabolism — and a team of specialized enzymes rushes in to mend what has been torn apart.

One of the most remarkable repair systems is called base excision repair. Discovered through the Nobel Prize-winning work of Tomas Lindahl in the 1970s, this process identifies a corrupted piece of genetic code, cuts it out, and replaces it with something whole. The damaged letter is removed. The correct one is written in its place.

This is what the Almighty does with a human soul.

We accumulate damage just by living in a fallen world. Bitterness corrodes us. Grief tears through us. Sin corrupts the code of who we were made to be. But God does not look at the damage and discard us. Like those faithful enzymes, He moves toward the broken place — not away from it. He excises what is corrupted and writes something new.

The Apostle Paul said it plainly: "If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here."

Your body already believes in restoration. Let your spirit catch up.