Earwax

Author and Brian Petak: listening

 I feel a small plop in my ear, and when I investigate, I discover it is a small ball of earwax. How much do you know about earwax? I knew very little about it until I read the following entry.
           Our ear canals have about 4,000 glands that produce wax, which accomplishes four important tasks:
1.        Earwax moisturizes the skin, which prevents it from becoming dry and itchy in the canal.
2.        Earwax possesses certain chemicals that are infection fighters, especially if you were to swim in dirty water.
3.     Bugs find earwax to be noxious. The hairs in the canals point outward and, combined with the wax, discourage bugs from crawling into our ears. Here in Georgia, that’s a great thing!
4.        Earwax coats the canal like flypaper, entrapping dirt and dust.

The cells that grow in our ear canals are similar to people-movers at airports or malls; they laterally move and slough off outside the ear. As they grow, they carry old debris-covered wax out of our ears.[1]  
 
Meditation
Job 13:1--Look, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood it.
 
Jesus said in Matthew 13:16, “But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!” God gave us ears so that we could hear and listen. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote in The Last Days of Pompeii, “Look round the world—observe its order, its regularity, its design. Something must have created it—the design speaks a designer.” So, how about that designed earwax—something we pay little attention to, yet a wonderful component of what keeps us healthy. 
 
Inspiration
“The Bible nowhere says that God set processes to work and out of those processes evolved the things which now appear.  The Bible says that God created things by a distinct act.”—Oswald Chambers in Biblical Psychology
 
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Ecclesiastes 12:10—"The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and to accurately write words of truth.”  (Holman CSB)
 


[1]Von Vett, J. & Malone, B. (2023). Without Excuse: The Compelling Evidence for Creation. Search for the Truth Ministries, February 18.