I find it strange that God created us with an entire side of our body that we are unable to see. Why is it that our necks were not made to go all the way around? I mean God has the creative power for it. Owls can crank their necks completely backwards, so, why not us? It’s extremely hard to put lotion on your own back, to scratch your own back in certain places and what if you had something growing out of your back, like a mole or a tumor… it’s possible you wouldn’t notice it for months.
Do you find it strange?
Tomorrow I will post some interesting personal thoughts to this strange question.
We all need help from our friends and family. Even if it’s just to scratch our backs.
That makes us reliant on a community of people who can rub lotion on our back for us. We learn to ask and we are rewarded by receiving. If we don’t ask we receive a sunburn! I guess it teaches us to be bold. Hey, if we can ask someone to meet those needs we’re more likely to ask God to meet our greater needs!
Hi Lori,
I agree with Hope. I don’t think God wanted us to be completely self-reliant. Trying to put sunscreen on our own backs is quite a task…but so easy when someone does it for us. God might not have created us with 360 degree swivelling heads but he did create us with a need for each other. And in some of your examples such as scratching our backs and putting lotion on, it would seem that God also created a need in us for human contact…human touch. What if there was a machine invented that could put lotion on our backs for us? It wouldn’t be the same…it might work but we would still be missing the gentlenss and warmth of having someone do it for us.
When Jesus healed the leper, He didn’t have to touch him. He could heal someone with just a word. But His willingness to touch him was a great display of compassion and must have been pierced the very heart of the leper who had been untouched for so long. Jesus healed the leper of the disease because He was able to, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jesus’ compassion through His willingness to touch the leper, healed Him emotionally.
many blessings to you Lori,
Shelley
I think it’s because He never wants us to look back. As Paul says in Philippians, Look ahead, in Genesis He tells Lot not to look back. If we are constantly looking back we can’t see what’s ahead. Yes, I agree too we need each other and it’s community, but I think it’s alot deeper than that. I think if we had the ability to look 360 degrees we wouldn’t move AHEAD in the the things of God, because we would too busy looking behind us
As some of us has found out, when our feet are moving forward and our head is facing backward as we walk, we not only bump into things, but, we are blinded at what’s in front of us. I think if our necks could turn all the way around we would spend most of our time looking around at what we don’t have and less time looking ahead to what He has in store for us.