My grandchildren enjoy a game called ‘blowies’. This involves a table, a table tennis ball and two or three people at either end of the table. Without touching the ball, the aim is to blow it over the edge at the other end, whilst the other team try to do the same in reverse. It’s good fun, although it might make you feel a bit lightheaded!

We tend to take blowing and in particular breathing for granted don’t we? It’s an automatic reflex, like blinking and swallowing – but if we stop breathing, we die.

Rather than accept that our incredible bodies formed by accident, I choose to believe in the bible account:

“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”  Genesis 2:7 (NIV)

No one is quite sure about the ‘breath of life’ or as it’s more commonly described these days, the ‘spark of life’; scientists have been unable to create a living organism from non-living materials. If you’re reading this, then perhaps the thought has crossed your mind – how did life start?

The Hebrew King David acknowledged God as his creator; he wrote about it in Psalm 139.

“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:4 (NIV)

The bible not only tells us that God created man and woman, it also tells us why He did it. God has a tremendous plan working its way out for the whole world – we just have to read about it.

A good mind-set for commencing this search is described in Psalm 150:

“Let everything alive give praises to the Lord! You praise him! Hallelujah!” Psalm 150:6 (TLB)