Looking at the human body from a purely physical point of view, one finds that it is made up of water, carbon, oxygen, and some other chemical elements. One can even work out, as scientist Robert Pattison has done, the price of material constituents of the human body. According to his calculations their market value is about six and a half US dollars, about seventy Indian rupees.
Yet out of these seventy rupees worth of matter, God has created a human being so wonderful that no price can be set upon him. Not even seventy billion rupees can buy the priceless masterpiece that God has fashioned within the human frame.
One can appreciate the pricelessness of the human body when some part of it is lost. If one loses a hand, for instance, millions of dollars will not buy a new one like it. If one loses one’s sight, all the wealth in the world will not win it back. If one’s power of speech fails him, there will be no tongue in the shops of the world which will put one’s thoughts into words.
How wonderful is it that God should fashion something so unmatched out of things of no value! It is only He who can bring the dead to life; only He who has the power to convert insensate matter into conscious life, to make something out of nothing.
If a magician were to cast a spell on a stone, making it break into speech, everyone would be spellbound at his feat. The feat which God has performed is of a much greater complexity. He has made the inanimate matter that constitutes man’s body into a moving, talking, thinking human being. Yet God’s feat does not cause people to wonder. How blind are those who can see the skill of a conjurer’s magical feats, but not the infinitely greater feats of God’s creation!
If only man were to truly discover God, he would become totally absorbed in the Lord’s wondrous feats of creation. Everything in the world would appear to him as a remarkable sign of God’s power and perfection. While dwelling in an earthly abode, he would see and feel nothing but the Lord on high.