When I'm hungry, I'll eat almost anything - a

leather bridle, a piece of rope, my master's tent,

or a pair of shoes. My mouth is so tough that even

a thorny cactus doesn't bother it. I'm a dromedary

camel, the one-hump kind that lives on the hot

deserts of the Middle East.

My big hump weighs 80 pounds and is full

of fat, not water! The Intelligent Creator designed

me so my body automatically takes this fat and

feeds me when I can't find anything to eat.

Naturally this causes my hump to shrink, and soon

it tips to one side. But when I find a nice oasis

and begin to eat again, it builds back up.

Water is often very hard to find out here on

the desert. Sometimes I will have to wait eight

days before I can get a drink. I look terrible then.

My ribs show through my skin, and I may lose 225

pounds. But when I find water, I'll drink up to 27

gallons in just 10 minutes, and gain those 225

pounds back immediately. I was designed for the

hot, dry desert.

People use me for transportation because I

can travel through the sand dunes so well. It's

really easy because my Creator gave me specially

engineered "sandshoes." My two long bony toes

have a super-tough piece of skin stretched

between them. My hooves are wide, but they

stretch and get wider when I step down on them

so I don't sink into the soft, drifting sand.

Sometimes a big sandstorm screams across

the desert, but that doesn't bother me. My Master

Designer put special muscles in my nostrils that

close part way, keeping the sand out but letting in

just enough air to breathe. My Designer also gave

me long eyelashes that hang over my eyes and

keep out the blowing sand. If a grain of sand

should slip through and land on my eye, my

Maker gave me an inner eyelid that automatically

wipes the sand off my eyeball like a windshield

wiper.

It's really difficult for me to understand how some people say I evolved into what I am now. I'm a very technical, highly-engineered dromedary camel. Things like me don't just happen. They're planned by Someone very intelligent and logical. The Creator's Book, the Bible, tells us that this Great Designer is Jesus Christ. It says, "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made" (John 1:3).
Jesus Christ designed a way for me to live in the desert. He also designed a way for you to live as one of God's children. He knew that you can't make yourself good enough to be in God's family. The Bible says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). So Jesus came to earth and took the blame for all your sins - for all the wrong that you have done. He died on the cross and rose from the dead so that you can be forgiven.
When you believe this with all your heart, you will become one of God's children forever. The Bible promises, "To all who received Him [Jesus], to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God" (John 1:12). I hope you'll decide to believe in Christ.
	Bob Devine