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By Elizabeth Prata

I am a Literacy Interventionist (remedial reading teacher) at an elementary school. One of my tasks during the day is to do a supervising duty. I unlock the double doors in the morning so the kids can enter the school at first bell. I supervise the area between the gym where they congregate, and the cafeteria where they may go eat a breakfast if they wish until the final bell tells them to go to class.

My job is to greet the children warmly, make them feel welcome. Guide them to various where they need to go or show them where the rest room or the Lost & Found is. And so on, a bunch of little things to help their day begin on a smooth note. For my part, I am to be observant and vigilant for unusual people or events occurring out of the norm.

There are nearly 500 students in our school. They ALL pass by me EVERY day. I know a good many of their names and I say hello and welcome to them by name as they go about their beginning of day. I look at every face. As an observer, I notice the siblings coming down the hall. I have time to note their facial or behavioral similarities. If a gaggle of children are walking down the hall, I can tell who is a sibling and who is not.

I see this repeated over and over and over 180 days in a row. I marvel at God’s creative talent to subtly change a bone structure here or an eye shape there to make siblings look alike but not identical.

God forms each and every one of us. He said to Jeremiah,

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
And before you were born I consecrated you;
I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
(Jeremiah 1:5)

Elsewhere we read repeatedly that He is in charge of making new humans.

For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
(Psalm 139:13)

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. (Job 10:11)

Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments. (Psalm 119:73)

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. (Ecclesiastes 11:5).

When you think about the magnitude of this creative act that God repeats, for eons over billions of times, it is staggering to the brain. When He says He is higher than us, it is true to an extent we can never even imagine-

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”
(Isaiah 55:8-9)

His ways are wondrous to behold, to contemplate, to rejoice over. One of those ways are to see the evidence in human siblings. Even generationally- I have the same chin as my grandmother and my aunts.

Then when you fold in the fact that God made the universe, planets, angels, earth, and all that is in it inside of 6 days, it is staggering. His ongoing creativity with humans since then is something to remember when we tend to diminish Him in our mind, or lower his exaltedness even an inch.

Sing praises to God, sing praises; Sing praises to our King, sing praises. (Psalm 47:6).

Further Resources

Answers in Genesis: Genetics

Ligonier: From Praise to Praise