The breath of life…
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed life into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour – about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.
Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of :blood vessels. : :Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 :miles per hour.
The average human’s heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime. The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly – we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
In a normal day in our lives so much happens that we have no control of that we just are not aware of.
Things that God in His grace keeps just going so that we have life itself.
It was Daniel the prophet that said, that God in whose hand our very breath is…Daniel 5:23
Today we have so much to give thanks for – our very life in fact, our every breath!
Will you pause for just a moment whilst your heart, your lungs, your blood system just continues to give you life and thank your Creator for your life.
What a wonderful and peace bringing thought to know that God has my life in His hands….literally!
But this same God wants you to know Him intimately which is why He sent His Son Jesus Christ into our world to bring us forgiveness and grace so that we could know Him who keeps us in His care.