Our Favorite Proverbs: Proverbs 20:12
- David and Marilynn Chadwick
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by David Chadwick
“The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.”
Proverbs 20:12
We will wrap up this week with Proverbs 20:12, which says, “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made them both.”
Let’s unpack this truth together. Creation proves the existence of God. When you look at creation’s design, there is no other option than to believe there must be a Creator. How can something come from nothing unless there is a Creator? How can order come from disorder unless there is a Creator?
My dad used to say that to believe that this world was created without a Creator and through a big bang is like saying that an explosion in a printing press could create an unabridged dictionary.
Isaiah 40:28 says, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”
The Lord God is the Creator of EVERYTHING. He made it all. Our ears, eyes, nose, and everything else. And before sin entered in, God looked at everything he had made and called it “very good” (Genesis 1:31).
More specifically, though, I think this proverb wants us to take it a step deeper. It’s not just the ear; it’s the hearing ear. Examine the intricacies of the ear. How we hear sound waves. How they go into our brain and are processed into thoughts and then into actions. All of this just happened? No! The ability to hear points even deeper to a perfect God who created the human ear.
And it’s not just an eye; it’s a seeing eye! Look at the human eye. How we see. Light refractions that enter our retinas at immeasurable speeds to give us vision. And all this just happened? No!
Many have come to faith by examining the intricacy of creation within the human body. To say this all just happened, without a designer, is incredulous. There is a God. He is real. He created everything. Both the hearing ear and the seeing eye scream aloud, “There is a God who made you!” And this God loves you very, very much!