The Handiwork-What Is Behind It? - Conclusion of Impartial and Just

One type of cell that our body uses to fight invaders is the macrophage; its name means "big eater," which is fitting because it devours foreign substances in our blood. For example, after eating an invading virus, the macrophage breaks it into small fragments.  It then displays some protein from the virus.  This bit of marker protein serves as a red flag to our immune system, sounding the alarm that foreign organisms  are on the loose inside us.  If another cell in the immune system, the helper T cells, recognizes the virus protein, it exchanges chemical signals with the macrophage.  These chemicals are themselves extraordinary proteins that have a bewildering array of functions, regulating and boost our immune system's response to invasion.  This process results in a vigorous fight against the specific type of virus.  Thus, we  usually manage to overcome infections.  

Actually, much  more is involved, but even this brief description reveals the complexity of our immune system. How did we get this intricate  mechanism?  It came free of charge, regardless of our family financial or social standing.  Compare that with the inequity in health care available to most people. "For WHO [World Health Organization]. growing inequity is literally a matter of life and death, since the poor pa the price of social inequity with their health," wrote the director general of WHO, Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima. You can understand this lament made by one of São Paulo's slum dwellers: "For us, good health care is like an item in a window display in a luxurious shopping mall. We can look at it, bit it is beyond our reach."  Millions of people around the globe feel the same way.  

Such inequities move Albert Schweitzer to go to Africa to provide medical care for the less privileged, and his efforts  earned him a Nobel prize.  What qualities  do you associate with men and women  who have done similar good deeds?  You probably  realize that they have love for humanity and a sense of injustice, believing that people  in developing lands too are entitled to medical.  What, then, about the Provider of the wonderful immune system built into us regardless of financial  and social standing?  Does it not more significantly bespeak the Creator's sense of love, impartiality and justice?  



Next time: The Handiwork-What Is Behind It? - Getting to Know the Creator

From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?