Our god-ness

I found myself mulling over a conversation I had with a colleague….something about us being ancient beings and within our DNA the unescapable desire to duplicate ourselves.

Take having children for instance. Reasons vary from skewed to absurd. Some have children to obtain money, to have someone pay their debt, to assemble a sports team, for the survival of their own species or propagation of a family name, to have someone look after them when they get old, to meet social expectation or else, accidental.

Someone at sometime had said that we were created to worship God. Worship was defined as ‘to come forward and kiss’ implying the intimate nature of the relationship God intends with His creation. The longing to be loved by a being that bears His resemblance must have driven the Great Creator. It is the same inherent drive within us to seek our likeness in someone else. Isn’t that why we tend to gravitate towards the person who reflects a part of us and we lose interest in someone when we no longer have anything in common? We search for that which would bring us a sense of completeness. And how grand it is when you found someone that complement yourself and have the ability to capture both yourself and the other person into one! It brings that much more security when you can love yourself three times.

I think that the Almighty have taken a great risk creating us… for when He created humanity and breathed into us His Spirit, He was essentially creating a part of Himself - a being with a free will. Didn’t He say we are gods and are children of the Most High (Psalm 82:6)? And so it is pointless to blame Adam and Eve for the sin of humanity. Had Adam and Eve not eaten from the forbidden tree, where else and when else could we have exercised this god-ability called ‘free will’ when there could be no such thing as choosing good from good? But God, despite knowing that the disobedience of two creatures will require Him to sacrifice His own Son, persisted in the creation of humanity. And since God is said to be the source of all that is love and good (Mark 10:18), perhaps He only saw the good that which was in Adam and Eve. Some love and goodness that drove God to even subject Him that had come directly from His bosom to death just to bring the whole world back to where God is able to see His ultimate purpose fulfilled! Such love and goodness that it compels the Creator to turn the heart of His creations from stones into flesh to bring us back into fellowship with Him (Ezekiel 36: 26-27)!

Isn’t it that we take the same risks when we have children? You hope for the good from your kids knowing well the tendency that your children may one day turn their backs on you? So why still have kids knowing the costs? Perhaps because nothing surpasses the elation of hearing your children tell you how much they love you. Isn’t it grand to have someone love you by their own free will without the need to beg? Free-will, both a curse and a blessing, had made it possible for us to experience anger and forgiveness, sadness and joy, hate and love, to give and receive, to be human. We need someone to love and be loved in return – attaining the perfect love, overcoming that fear and sadness of rejection.

I could sense the Creator’s heart towards us as I sense mine towards my two children – a mother’s heart to see them safe, happy, successful, healthy, reaching their potential, achieving their goals, experience and enjoy all that life is, the emotions, the trials and the hardships, make mistakes and learn from it because this is how they get to know themselves, discover things, plan things and be able to make sound decisions in life, live in an adventurous way not just survive. This must be how God wants to see us if He has His choice over our lives.  If only we choose to line our will with His......

“Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…So God created man in His own image...male and female He created them. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostril the breath of life…” Genesis 1: 26, 27; 2:7 (NKJV)