Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I know I have challenged you in the last letters with various subjects and understanding the relations and connections among them.

So today let’s just relax a little and take a nice story to underline and emphasize the astounding creativity and intelligence of our awesome Creator-God! Glory to our Lord!
It is surely not one of the most beautiful animals I have chosen, but it is one example of those fascinating organs God created within His creatures – the electro-motor of the bacterium “escherichia coli”.

As the name already points out, this bacterium lives within our intestinal tract, helping us digesting the more worthless parts of the foods we eat, and also fighting hostile micro-organisms.
You would need at least 300 of those bacteria in line and 1000 beside each other to fill up the area of one square millimeter (mm); and it makes up millions of them to serve you. But let’s have a closer look about the amazing parts of their bodies: for the mobility those bacteria have six so-called flagellum, which by rotation give them a speed up to 0.2 mm per second; well, that doesn’t sound like much, but according to their size they can swim 65 times their body-length in one second. If swam at that speed, we would have to race through water at 250 miles per hour! And by switching the direction of the rotation, escherichia is even able to swim forward and backwards. The rotation of the flagellum is 100 rounds per second, coming up to almost twice as much as the generators in your households rotate!

The flagellum themselves have a spiral form and if you would take them with a diameter of three feet they would have a length of 3000 feet; but in the real scale they are, of course, only 20 thousands of a milliliter long.

The complex functions of all the bacteria’s body parts are just a hymn to our God. Take a closer look how those bacteria can live in that poisonous environment, how they move, their food, how they multiply, and last but not least, serve within us by providing us with vitamins from the K and also the B-group!

Their cell membrane on the first look seems to be very simple, but actually is very complex. There are several layers, one with proteins, one with polysaccharides for stability, one with lipids and so on. The DNA with all their necessary information is almost 1000 times as long as themselves; and as we read before, it is another miracle to form the DNA that way that it fits into the organism. All the letters of information for that bacterium DNA comes up to almost the same number like the letters of your Bible!

We surely can not talk about all of the astonishing characteristics of those bacteria, but we surely have to talk a little about their miraculous “electro-motor” that is built in!
Like every other motor this one needs a stator, a rotor, and the required bearings and lugs. The rotating axis is perpendicular to the membrane’s surface, and it is built in between those mentioned different layers of the cell membranes. By electric power of 0.2 volts the flagellums are propelled, coming by positive particles (Hydrogen ions) moving from outside to the inside of those motors and providing the electrical power they need.

And when people now come up with the asserted theory that these fantastic motors came into being just by chance, they should always be aware that all developments mean nothing, and are worthless, as long as they are not complete and working together perfectly!

The Creator put all His marvelous ideas together creating a functioning motor, and the appropriate navigation system, too! The according sensors also enable the bacterium to swim to areas of rich nutrition, and are also able to warn it of poisonous parts, so the bacterium can avoid them. To do so the navigation system is very much sophisticated, providing the required signals to all six motors. And to emphasize this again: a motor without the appropriate steering mechanism would bring the bacterium also to lethal areas. And also a navigation system on its own – without the motor – would be worthless. What would be the advantage of knowing where the food is, without the capability to get there?

And we can compare this with the parallel situation in our lives. The highest goal our Creator-God has given us is eternal life. What would be the benefit of that knowledge for us if we didn’t have the possibility to reach it?

But as He gave the motor to the bacterium to get to the “rich areas”, He gave us His only begotten Son, Y’shua ha Mashiach, as the Way to the source of eternal life!

Whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life – halleluja! (John 3:16)
Well, that’s it again for this letter. I hope you enjoyed this little story about a very tiny animal, which by its perfect working organs is glorifying our Lord God!

Our Lord Y’shua bless you and keep you – Shalom!