Some years ago, I watched Louie Giglio’s video on Youtube titled ‘Indescribable’ (Link: https://youtu.be/AEh56ROJx48). If there is one word that will aptly describe God at the end of that video, it will be, well, INDESCRIBABLE! Louie Giglio, explored the expanse of the known universe in a way that gives sense to this verse:

Psalm 19:1-4 (NLT)

“The heavens proclaim the glory of God, the skies display his craftsmanship. Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known. They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard. Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world.”

I encourage you to see that video. When you are done, you will find yourself asking the same question the Psalmist did in Psalm 8:1-2 “When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”

I started pursuing a PhD in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Science a few months back. I can say without a doubt that I am in a very ‘intelligent’ environment. I have met some really smart people, I mean people operating at really high IQ levels. This is not about the Impostor syndrome where I feel out of place.

In one of my modules, we get to read classical research papers that have changed the dynamics of medical science; beautifully, intelligently designed experiments that give details of the molecular complexity of life (from the lowly E. coli to the lowly man). I marvel deeply at some of these experiments and their conclusions, but even more so at the One who puts all of these in place. Intelligence unquantifiable; intelligence much higher than ours that the best description of it is “as high as the heaven is from the earth”.

What is man that You are mindful of him? Question of the ages!

I don’t want to go full nerd; oh but if only you knew the molecular level details that make up who you are! THIS REALLY BLOWS MY MIND. That the same God who made those massive stars (that after seeing the Louie Giglio video, you don’t even know where to begin in right-sizing Him or right-sizing yourself), will pay so much attention to the most microscopic, molecular events that make life is mind-boggling. A sense of unworthiness washes over me when I study, and I am not talking about the Bible. I mean studying science for my degree.

Who am I that you are mindful of me?

Science has not even come close to fully understanding all the molecular and cellular details that sustain life!

For me it is not so much about the degree anymore. It is not even about the love for biological science. I am just grateful for the opportunity to sit and learn about Him who made me, the God who sees the whole picture but still focuses on molecular details. I am in awe of the One who, by the breath of his mouth, put the stars in place and yet concerns himself with how a DNA polymerase works. I am humbled by the fact that the One who commands angel armies still collects all my tears and numbers the strands of my hair.

My constant prayer is this: “Father, these are your molecules. Teach me something about what you have created; teach me something about You as I study these molecules.”

This passage of scripture will always resonate in the deep recesses of my soul:

Psalm 139: 13-16 (ESV)

¹³For you formed my inward parts;
    you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
    my soul knows it very well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
    the days that were formed for me,
    when as yet there was none of them.