Monday in the Fourth Week of Advent
Deacon Robert Banet
I’ve just been reading in the Bible where it says the hairs of your head are counted.
Oh? Are you sure it said counted, and not numbered?
What’s the diff?
Well, if I said you had 12,506 hairs in your head, that would be something, right?
Right. Go on.
And if I said that hair just by your ear is numbered six thousand five hundred and sixty-three, that would really be something, right?
Yes, it would be even more amazing.
The Bible says they would be numbered. God knows the number of the thousands and thousands of hairs on your head.
That’s pretty hard to believe.
Yes, but there’s something in the natural order that makes it a little easier to believe.
I’m listening.
How many cells in our bodies?
Oh, I don’t know. Millions, maybe?
How about trillions? Trillions and yet your soul knows about each one of them. It gives them life, it tells them what to do, it repairs them when things go wrong.
Is that a fact?
Yes, it’s science. Scientists may not like to call it a soul but whatever you call it, it’s the life principle that governs and regulates the many, many different kinds of cells in your body. So if the soul has that much knowledge of each of our many, many different kinds of cells, it makes it a little easier to believe that God knows the number of each of the hairs of our head and that further, He knows what each of us is doing right now.
Wow! That’s kind of scary.
It could be. But if, right now, you are doing what God wants, isn’t that a comforting thought?
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Hey, I’ve got a question?
Shoot.
What time do they hear confessions at St. Andrew’s?