How thin is the layer of soil that produces all the food we eat. A thin carpet of life...that's what the soil is. Scientists tell us that the top layer of soil is "45 percent minerals, 25 percent water, 25 percent air, and five percent organic matter". The organic matter is made of living bacteria and organisms and the remnants of dead plant and animal matter. The bacteria breaks down the dead life and returns it to the soil. The roots of plants and trees help to break down rocks to provide minerals. Natural processes can take 500 years to build one inch of top soil. Little creatures like earthworms, mice and moles help enrich and aerate the soil as they burrow through. Each of us has his natural origin in this soil and our composition is relocated soil that God has arranged through DNA to form our bodies. All the food we consume will spring up from this thin layer and one day we will lie down and our bodies will return to the soil to be reused. It is a thin carpet of life that is recycled and gives rise to generations of people who will walk, play, plant, drive, and struggle on its surface. From this thin carpet spring spiritual beings who will, one day, soar in the Heavens with their designer!
Ezekiel 17:5 He also took a seedling from the land
and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside a broad river,
where it could grow like a willow tree.
6 It took root there and
grew into a low, spreading vine.
Its branches turned up toward the eagle,
and its roots grew down into the ground.
It produced strong branches
and put out shoots.
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