Delivery Trucks and Miniature Soldiers

Municipal areas require well-organized delivery and defense systems. Ahnost every part of a city requires supplies, such as water, food, dry goods, and factory orders on a constant basis. These supplies must be delivered through a transportation system consisting of thousands of trucks with access to every part of the city through a complex of freeways, highways, streets, and alleys. The trucks transport supplies along city streets to stores and homes, while other trucks remove waste and allow the city to function and thrive.

Our bodies have a transportation system so complex and complete that it dwarfs that of a metropolis. The body’s transportation system cuts through every tissue and organ by means of a network of sixty thousand miles of blood vessels. No cell of your body lies more than a hair’s breadth from a blood capillary. The center of this vast system is a pump the size of an apple or a fist, that pumps two thousand gallons of blood through its chambers every day, sending blood to every part of the body.

The blood carries vital, life-giving oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body. The body has twenty-five trillion red blood cells, which are like little UPS trucks carrying all sorts of packages (such as oxygen) that are needed by the cells in the body. Every cell in the body requires oxygen to remain alive. If the blood is cut off to any part of the body, it deprives that part of the body of oxygen, and that bodily part will die.

If the brain is deprived of oxygen, the brain dies, and the body dies. The white blood cells, meanwhile, are like billions of little tanks protecting the body.

There are five different kinds of these white blood cells, and each one is trained to go after a different enemy. One drop of blood can contain anywhere from seven thousand to twenty-five thousand white blood cells, and the number of them increases when our body is fighting an illness, just like the government calling up the reserves.

As far as our skeletal structure is concerned, our bones do double duty. Not only do they support the body, keep us upright, and keep us from being amoeba-like blobs, but they are hollow.

On the inside of these bones are marvelous little factories that operate day and night, producing these billions of little trucks and tanks. The brain oversees the entire operation, and the heart keeps it functioning. Thirty-five hundred years ago, God told us, “The life is in the blood!’ And when Jesus Christ died, the life-giving blood drained from his body, providing forgiveness and life to all who believe.