The You Miracle

Your Life And What Comes After (14): The You Miracle, Part One

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Prince Philip’s character in Netflix’s The Crown (Season 3, Episode 7, “Moondust”) said this about his disappointment in what they found when American astronauts landed on the moon in 1968:

“The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all that way to the moon and finding nothing but haunting desolation, ghostly silence, gloom. That is what faithlessness is. As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God’s design and purpose.”

Are We Alone?

The universe contains trillions of galaxies, each with billions of stars—more than we could count in a thousand lifetimes. Worlds beyond worlds are scattered across an ocean of space so vast it makes Earth seem like a speck of dust.

You’d think someone else would be out there by now. But so far, the cosmos has been… quiet.

No alien signals. No visitors. No confirmed microbes on Mars or the moons of Jupiter. Just an overwhelming stillness.

So no, I don’t believe in little green men or flying saucers zipping around our skies. I believe we are the only beings God created in His image—and that He made the Earth and the universe for us to share eternal life with Him.

God’s Focus Is On Us. On You.

What if life on this planet is incredibly special and rare—not because the universe is empty, but because we are the characters in God’s story?

What if Earth is not one of many planets where living, thinking beings exist, but the only place in His vast creation where God chose to create His family?

A vast universe does not make us insignificant. It makes God’s focus on us even more astonishing.

And that makes you a very, very special and important person in the universe. More on that coming up.

Your Life And What Comes After (13): The Body Miracle

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In the early 1950s, biologist Rosalind Franklin was studying DNA at King’s College in London. In 1952, she captured an image—later known as Photo 51—that revealed a striking X-shaped pattern. Franklin carefully analyzed the data, and saw that it that showed DNA was made of two strands wound together, with the genetic codes protected inside.

Her data later led to the correct model of DNA in 1953. The discovery showed how the human body stores, copies, and passes on life’s instructions with amazing detail. What had been invisible inside every cell suddenly became understandable—uncovering the molecular language that is the basis of the immune system, inheritance, and life itself.

Three Ways Your Body Declares You Were Designed on Purpose

Modern culture tells us we’re just globs of cells waiting to die and decay in a universe that doesn’t care. But your body tells a different story. It doesn’t whisper, “You’re just an accident”—it shouts, “What an awesome miracle you are!”

Here are three miracles in your physical body that quietly—but powerfully—rebel against the idea that you don’t matter.

Your Immune System Remembers What Tried to Kill You

Your immune system doesn’t just fight—it remembers. Once it meets a threat, it records the encounter and sets up a faster, stronger response the next time. Sometimes that memory lasts a lifetime.

Your body was built not just to survive the present, but to prepare for the future. That’s wisdom at the cellular level, not an accident.

“The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil.”
—Psalm 121:7

You Are Constantly Changing—Yet You Remain You

Your body replaces billions of cells every day. Skin renews. Blood refreshes. Bones rebuild. And still, you remain. Your memories, identity, and sense of self don’t dissolve with each cellular swap.

If you were just a glob of skin and bones walking around, you’d be a different person every few years. Instead, you remain you. Scripture calls this being “fearfully and wonderfully made”. Biology agrees: something holds you together beyond chemistry.

“I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
—Psalm 139:14

Your Heart Beats Without Asking Permission

Your heart doesn’t wait for instructions from your brain. It has its own built-in electrical system, firing over 100,000 times a day without you thinking once about it. Even removed from the body and supplied with oxygen, a heart can continue beating.

That’s not an accident. That’s by design.

The Bible says God “gives to all life, breath, and all things” (Acts 17:25). Your heartbeat is a daily reminder of that.

“In him we live, and move, and have our being.”
—Acts 17:28

So What?

Your body is not an accident trying to survive in a meaningless universe. It is a living system fine-tuned by God’s own hand for a glorious purpose.

Believing you’re just a clump of cells makes life cheap.
Believing you were designed on purpose—and for a purpose—is rebellion against darkness.

Well done, fellow rebel.

Your Life And What Comes After (12): The Existence Miracle, Part Two

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So What?

What difference does it make in daily life that something exists instead of nothing? Isn’t that just a mind-bending, philosophical question without real meaning?

No.

Here’s why: If everything exists because God willed it, then your life is not an accident drifting through a meaningless universe. You are not just background noise in a cold, accidental existence. You exist because our Creator wanted a creation where relationship, meaning, and purpose were real.

Believing nothing matters is easy and leads to a “who cares?” take on life. Not good.

Believing God created you on purpose and for a purpose—that’s rebellion against darkness and a defiant shout that says, “I matter!”

The Source Matters

When Scripture says,

“For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things.”
—Romans 11:36 (KJV)

it’s making a claim about reality itself. Everything starts with God, is held by God, and always points back to God—including you.

So when the question comes up—Why is there something instead of nothing?—the Bible’s answer is simple:

There is something because God chose creation over emptiness.

God is the reason everything exists, and when you look closely, you see Him everywhere. And that’s not nothing.

Your Life And What Comes After (11): The Existence Miracle, Part One

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“Why is the sky blue?” a student asked the teacher one day. “And how can the moon cover the sun during a solar eclipse if the sun is way bigger?”

The teacher nodded. “Ah, good questions—they sound simple, but they point to how amazing our world is.”

“For the sky,” she said, turning to the window, “sunlight looks white, but it’s actually made of many colors. When that light enters Earth’s atmosphere, the tiny gas molecules scatter the shorter blue wavelengths more than the others. Blue light gets spread all across the sky, reaching your eyes from every direction, so the sky looks blue.” She paused. “At sunrise and sunset, the light has to pass through more atmosphere, the blues scatter away, and you see reds and oranges instead.”

“As for our second question, the sun is much bigger—about 400 times bigger than the moon,” she said. “But it’s also about 400 times farther away, which makes them appear almost exactly the same size in the sky. So when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, it can cover it perfectly.”

A Different Question

Science can answer lots of questions—except maybe the most important one:
Why is there something instead of nothing?

Most people don’t stop to ask why reality exists at all. We just look at what’s in front of us without stopping to ask why there’s anything there to look at in the first place.

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
—Hans Christian Andersen

A Solid Answer

The Bible doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to the answer. It opens with it.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
—Genesis 1:1 (KJV)

Something exists because Someone already did. That Someone is God the Creator, and everything we see and experience exists because He meant it to exist and brought it into being for a purpose.

Nothing Doesn’t Create

Nothing has no power, no will, no potential. If nothing were the true starting point, nothing would still be all there is. The universe didn’t reason itself into existence. Life didn’t organize itself by wishful thinking.

If you train yourself to see everything and everyone around you—in every moment of your day—as part of the incredible miracle of existence, your life will change in amazing ways. Trust me.

Your Life And What Comes After (10): Coming Miracles

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Below is a great quote from Dan Kent that summarizes how we can plug into God’s plan and how each of us can discover our individual purpose and talents in the process.

“Don’t stand around waiting for God to act, or for God to win your battles for you: don’t stand around watching for what God might do: rather, show God what you can do. Gain wisdom, gather knowledge, develop skills, give the Lord something to use as he rumbles through the earth unfolding his glorious will.”
Dan Kent – thatdankent.com

The Next Leg of Our Journey

As we go forward in this journey and you look to better understand ‘Your Life and What Comes After’ we’re going to be discussing three exciting topics:

  • The Existence Miracle
  • The Human Miracle
  • The You Miracle

Before we dive in, ask yourself this question: Do you need to see the person who built the beautiful grandfather clock in order to know that someone built it?

Stay tuned.

The Whole World Is A Series Of Miracles…

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“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

Well said, Hans.

I’ve found the secret: train your mind to see even the most mundane things for what they are – miraculous works of God.

From the tiniest being in existence to the vast splendor of a starry night, it’s all meant to show the glory and wonder of our loving Creator.

Your Life And What Comes After (2): God’s Grand Plan Part 2

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We have a function to perform and a part to play, each one of us individually and all of us together as God’s people, in God’s Grand Plan.

God’s Desire

God’s desire is to dwell together with his children forever in His perfect creation.

Our job in that relationship is to love and glorify our Heavenly Father and to take care of and add value to the creation He has given us.

The original creation and state of mankind was in perfect harmony and fellowship with the Creator and all was well with the universe.

The Rebellion

Then disobedience, rebellion, and sin cut mankind (Adam and Eve) off from their relationship with God.

Adam and Eve hid from God in shame. God’s perfect garden of delight was ruined, brought forth thorns and weeds, and was no longer the joyous place for Adam and Eve to tend and enjoy.

So Along Came Jesus

Then, after the fall and ruin, the whole purpose and plan of God is to restore that original relationship with His people and redeem the creation from the wreck of death and decay brought about by the rebellion.

The way he has done and is doing that is through His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, who through his love and obedience has made it possible for us to once again live God’s original purpose.

So What About Us?

What is our part in all of this today? Where do you fit in?

Let’s consider this idea: Our purpose is to help God in bringing about the redemption of His people and the final restoration of His creation.

Let me say that again with a slight variation: YOUR purpose is to help God in bringing about the redemption of His people and the final restoration of His creation.

So, we can either believe we are just tiny specks of dust with no purpose or meaning floating around aimlessly in a cold and dark universe – or we can believe that we are actually workers together with the Creator of the universe to accomplish a Grand Plan with an everlasting purpose.

I choose the latter. The challenge is to understand and believe it to the point of action. How do we do that? We’ll dig deeper in the next post.

Your Life And What Comes After: God’s Grand Plan Part 1

Prince Phillip’s ‘Haunting Desolation’

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In an excerpt from The Crown, Season 3 Episode 7 (“Moondust”) – a monologue delivered in the show by Prince Phillip the during his moment of mid-life crisis, speaking to a gathering of priests at St. George’s House, the writer and actor capture the essence of a meaningless existence as opposed to the wonder and ecstasy of knowing God.

“My mother died recently. She saw something was amiss. She saw that something was missing in her youngest child, her only son. Faith. ‘How’s your faith’, she asked me.

I am here to admit to you that I’ve lost it. And without it, what is there? The loneliness and emptiness and anticlimax of going all the way to the moon and finding nothing but haunting desolation, ghostly silence, gloom. That is what faithlessness is.

As opposed to finding wonder, ecstasy, the miracle of divine creation, God’s design and purpose.”