From March, 2007 until September, 2010, I wrote a column called "As Each Part Does Its Work" for Maranatha News. I will be posting those columns in order here.
Column one.
It had been a busy day and I was tired, so I was flipping through the channels. I stopped at a documentary about Stephen Hawking.
In case you aren’t familiar with him, Stephen Hawking is a British scientist who has challenged existing scientific beliefs, postulated numerous new theories, and been compared to Albert Einstein. But Hawking has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease), a disease which destroys the nerves of the spinal cord. Although his mind remains fully active, the connections from mind to limbs have been slowly eaten away until he can barely do anything for himself. Even to speak, he must use a state-of-the-art machine that allows him to make words by blinking to indicate letters. A mechanical voice then speaks. One reply may take him as long as eight minutes.
I can only imagine the frustration this man must feel—trapped, as it were, in a body that is totally alien to him. Through no fault of his own, he is completely dependent on others to care for him—forced to lead a slow-motion life which, to someone with his whip-like understanding, must drive him to anguish and anger.
But as I watched the documentary, God whispered to me, "That's a picture of Christ.”
Read the rest of "As Each Part Does Its Work" column 1 as a pdf
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