The Miracle of the Heart: Evidence For God

By Angoo Ba

Did you know that a normal resting heart rate for adult humans ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute? That makes it at least one beat every second! Were you aware that during an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion ( 2,500,000,000) times! Astounding, isn’t it!

There’s more to it than that, though. Our heart began beating—expanding and contracting—even when we were in our mothers’ womb, considerably before we came into this world. It has been continuously beating even after that, functioning non-stop, without even a moment’s rest. And it will do so till we take our last breath, whenever that happens.

To add to the list of astonishing things about the heart, consider the fact that although our heart has been continuously beating even before we emerged into this world, it doesn’t ever seem to get tired. At least, I’ve never felt that way.

If I were to wave my leg about in the air, expand and contract my fist, blink my eyes or rotate my head, I guess they would get exhausted in just under a couple of minutes and I would stop. If I were to wag my tongue, I might do a little better, but even then my tongue would complain after a while and would force me to desist. But why and how, then, is it that our little heart, which has so faithfully been beating away perhaps ever since we entered our mothers’ womb, never seems to get tired? That’s a question really worth pondering, isn’t it?

What if our heart, like many other parts of our body, got exhausted after working continuously for a few minutes or a couple of hours? If it decided to take even a tiny break in order to rest, we would probably die very soon. The heart performs such a vital function for us that if it halted its work for even a brief moment, our life might be in grave peril. We simply wouldn’t be able to live if our heart got tired every now and then, like many other parts of the body, and needed to relax for a while in order to recharge and get back to work.

Yet another amazing thing about the heart is that it functions independent of our volition. Most people can choose to move their hand or their leg or wag their tongues, for instance, and they can also choose not to. But that’s not the case with the heart. As long as we are physically alive, the heart continues to beat on its own, whether we like it or not, even when we are fast asleep. Its beating is not dependent on our willing it to. We cannot dictate things to the heart, ordering it to stop and start at our pleasure. Had the beating of our heart depended on our choosing, as in the case of several other of our organs, we wouldn’t be alive very long, because when we are asleep, we wouldn’t be able to control its functioning.

The heart plays a vital and indispensable role in the functioning of the body. It needs to be active at every moment of our life, whether we are awake or asleep. It simply cannot afford to get tired, because then our life would be in danger. Nor, for the same reason, can its functioning afford to be dependent on our will. The heart, then, seems to have been designed in just the right way for human life to be possible.

Now, isn’t all of this just amazing! For me, the only convincing explanation for me is that all of this is a miracle. Since we didn’t design and make our heart ourselves, it stands to reason that it must have been designed and made by someone else—a grand Designer and Maker.

The way the heart has been designed and made is yet one more piece of evidence for a transcendent Creator—that is, God.