Your eye is connected to your brain by your optic nerve. The optic nerve is actually a bundle of nerve fibers. That bundle is made up of 1.2 million optic nerve fibers. Each eye is connected to your brain by 1.2 million optic nerve fibers.

When the eye and the brain first appear, in the human embryo, they are not linked. Sometime during the second trimester of our existence, the 1.2 million optic nerve fibers from your eye start to move toward the brain and the 1.2 million optic nerve fibers from your brain begin to move toward your eye. All those fibers meet in the space between the eye and the brain. Each of the 1.2 million from your eye have an exact match in the 1.2 million coming from your brain. For you to be able to see, the 1.2 million from your brain must match perfectly with the 1.2 million from your brain. That happens twice in every human.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139.13,14)

Praise God this morning for the gift of sight. Marvel at the fact that he is mindful of us down to the most minute detail. Be amazed that the God of the universe is intimately involved in the the business of creation. Be awestruck by the wonder of a loving creator who listens when you call and cares when you hurt and watches over our comings and goings because we are His creation. We are fearfully and wonderfully made.