One of the most common human failings is the tendency to lose sight of daily miracles that surround us. At the top of the list is taking for granted the way our own bodies work.

Each time we sit down to a meal, we give little or no thought to the miracle that turns the food we consume into the nutrients that allows our body to function. We give even less thought to the colony of bacteria that resides in our digestive system and helps with that process.

With all the antibacterial soaps and antibiotics developed to keep us healthy, we have come to see bacteria as the villains in our environment, and no doubt this is the case in many instances. What we overlook and what science is still struggling to understand is the fact that many types of bacteria are essential to our digestive system.

A report by Arizona State University suggests that our digestive system is home to millions of species of bacteria and, just like other aspects of our existence, there are beneficial players and there are the bad guys. Part of maintaining good health is ensuring that the good bacteria outnumbers and overwhelms the destructive variety.

The continuous miracle that exists without our notice is the relationship between our host bodies and the bacterial residents within us. It is a symbiotic system that our science is just recently beginning to understand. It is something that our science cannot duplicate.

When we begin to use our logic to judge the existence of a higher power, perhaps we need look no further than within ourselves. Then we need to consider the possibility that such a mutually beneficial system comes into being purely by accident.

When we begin to recognize the incredibly complex combination of elements that result in our existence, the odds favor intelligent design.

God’s tiny workers labor behind the scenes to keep us alive.