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cles are extremely vital ones, their contraction and ex-
pansion is controlled, by the mercy of God, by the so-
called autonomous nervous system. Therefore, your
heart, stomach and intestines perform their duties re-
gardless of your conscious will. This is a most vital
precaution, for if functions like heartbeat and diges-
tion had been entrusted to conscious control, it would
of course be impossible for humans to fulfill them
constantly. That would spell the end of human life.
The flat muscles that work involuntarily move
slowly, but their contractions are long-lasting. They
do not tire, and thus they can maintain systems of vi-
tal importance to the body for lengthy periods of
time. Blood vessels, the digestive tract and the walls
of the excretory canals, for instance, are all furnished
with muscles of this kind. Since these flat muscles
work independently of the skeletal muscles, they are
responsible for only the movements of internal or-
gans.
Imagine that the involuntary muscles were tem-
porarily placed under your control. You would need
to contract the walls of your stomach in order for di-
gestion to take place, and contract your heart to pump
blood. Even if you concentrated on only those tasks,
you still couldn’t possibly manage them. That’s be-
cause these muscles continue working on your behalf
when you are asleep, and perform their functions for
a whole lifetime, never resting. If conscious, there-
fore, muscular contractions would stop when you
wanted to sleep or rest, and that would spell the end
of your life. As we have seen, the flawless order in our
heartbeat is sufficient to show us the mercy that God
has bestowed upon us.