Behold the Wisdom Of God!

My jaw hurts. It feels like a golf ball of pain in my mouth right now.

Hold on there.

What has this to do with the wisdom of God?

I ate a piece of tough bread yesterday. It smashed a hole in the gingiva on the left side of my mouth, which hurts.

As I understand (and grossly oversimplify) it, there are four major nerves in your jaws, one each for left and right, top and bottom. If you get an injury in one spot on your jaw, it was probably by doing something repetitive (e.g. eating chips that are too crunchy) that you should stop doing. So your whole jaw hurts as a warning to stop doing it. Then your mouth needs to heal. How do you keep an injury from healing? Poke it really hard, repeatedly, every few hours.

To keep you from aggravating your injury accidentally, God designed your mouth so you would not want to eat using the teeth on the injured side of it, because the whole jaw will hurt. You'll eat carefully with the other side of your mouth for a couple of weeks, and then feel better. It would have taken a human designer more than one try to get this feature properly implemented. God nailed it on the first try, along with every other part of the human anatomy; hence the title of this post.

P.S. Thank God also for Tylenol!