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Amazing Love
by Adam Bennett When God invented the human brain he made something very special. The average brain weighs in at around 1.5 kilograms and is 75% water. The brain uses 20% of the body's energy, making it the most energy-consuming part of our bodies. It consumes 25 watts of power while we are awake... enough to illuminate a lightbulb. It uses around 20% of the total oxygen pumping around our body via the 750ml of blood which pumps through our brain every minute which accounts for up to 20% of blood flow from the heart. That blood flows through about 100,000 miles of blood vessels. If they were stretched out they would circle the earth more than four times. The brain hosts a complex system of cells called neurons around one hundred billion of them. Those neurons pass signals to each other via around 100 trillion synaptic connections to make your brain do its thing. It is estimated the human brain has a raw computational power between 1013 and 1016 operations per second... far more that 1 million times the number of people on Earth. Humans have an immense capacity to think let alone imagine. When it comes to imagination you might consider Dvorak's Ninth Symphony, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings or Van Gogh's Night Stars. With this in mind Paul wrote, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." (Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV) Despite the impressive capacity of humanity to think and dream the truth about God is so much more awesome that it is beyond our natural ability to understand. In particular, Paul said that he prayed that we would have, "power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge." (Ephesians 3:19 NIV) Charles Wesley summed up some of the wonder of this when he wrote: And can it be that I should gain, An interest in the Savior's blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain, For me, who Him to death pursued. Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Sources: http://www.downthelane.net/ten-brain-facts.html http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2008/05/08/top-10-interesting-facts-about-the-brain/ http://www.thethinkingbusiness.co.uk/brainfacts.htm Copyright Adam Bennett 2009. More articles are available at http://godward-thoughts.blogspot.com/ Article Source: http://www.faithwriters.com |