Why? How?

This morning I woke up and opened my eyes. Eventually I got out of bed, went and got dressed. A normal day. These various things we do without much thought, sometimes with no thought at all. I didn’t think to wake myself up, it just happened. The night before I didn’t think to go to sleep. It just happened. There was some thought involved in getting out of bed. There was more thought involved in choosing clothes and dressing. All in all though a normal routine set of actions which happens day after day.

But this morning I applied two questions to the process. The first was - how? How do all of these things happen? Going to sleep, waking up; things which I have little control over and don’t really think about. They happen automatically. But how do they happen? How does my body work? How do all of the many, many, many, different complex processes work together to make things happen?

The second question is even less answerable than the first? Why? Why am I able to do all of these things? Why am I… anything? Well the Bible has the answer to all of this. It doesn’t invoke science or theories or anything else other than the simple premise that God created us, and consequently all of these things which we do unconsciously, subconsciously and semi-automatically, are the result of His creation. That answers the ‘how’ for me anyway. Science and medicine backfill the ‘how’ but don’t explain everything. But that is not a problem for me.

The ‘why?’ is also answered from the Bible. God wants people to believe that He has done all of this and want to find out about Him, and what His plans are. He wants people on this earth who love Him of their own free will for everything that He is, has done, and will do.

All of this, and much more, is in the Bible for us to read and to act on. But the decision is up to us. God has also given us free will to make our own choices because he doesn’t want robots who automatically obey Him! He wants people who of their own volition love Him and act in a way to please Him. The decision is ours.