Think about all the organs and machinery inside your body. Evaluate the wonder of your seeing eyes, your hearing ears, and other senses. You have electrical circuits in your brain to help you think, learn and make decisions.
As David said, we are beautifully and wonderfully made! But we also have a spiritual side.
When God created Adam, the Bible says he became a living soul. The person you are, that God made you, is not flesh and blood. Watchman Nee, a Chinaman who did one of the most profound studies on the soul, wrote his evaluations in his book, “The Spiritual Man.”
The Bible says in Genesis as soon as God breathed life into Adam's nostrils and this life poured through the body, Adam became a living soul. Nee believed the soul is the combination of man’s body and spirit. The breath of life became man’s spirit; that is the principle of life within him. The Lord Jesus tell us,, “It is the Spirit that gives life” (John 6:63).
This breath of life comes from the Lord of Creation, Nee continues.. Before they sinned, Adam and Eve had the capacity to live forever. But they sinned and became mortal, meaning that they would be subject to sickness and death.
God warned Adam and Eve that if they disobeyed him, they would be punished. Satan told Eve not to believe it. But God is a just God and in spite of his love for Adam and Eve, He took away their immortality (he'd warned them they would die if they ate of the forbidden tree) and caused them to be mere mortals who had to work, sweat and get sick and die.
God wanted Adam and Eve and everyone who lives thereafter to know there are consequences for evil and rebellion. That’s still true today. We reap what we sow. God had made Adam and Eve in His own image, and the book of Genesis says God blessed them in spite of their sin. He gave man dominion and authority to care over the every beast and bird
The Lord made all sorts of things for humankind to enjoy. He gave us water to drink and swim in. Flowers to smell and look at. Furry animals to touch and love. Birds to sing and flap their wings above us in blue skies. The sun to warm us in the day and make things grow. The moon to light our way at night so we do things such as play Kick the Can.
Every good thing comes from God. Love also comes from God, because God is love (1 John 4:16) And he loves you! God said his creation was very good, but when sin came into his wonderful world, there was a need for man to have a way back to holiness and purity -- and eternal life. God promised a Redeemer, Jesus Christ, way back in Genesis when He told Adam and Eve, in a prophecy that foretold Jesus would come and crush Satan’s head (Genesis 3:15).
For nearly 4,000 years prophets wrote and preached about the coming Messiah, and one day H, Jesus, was born in a stable in Bethlehem, fulfilling every one of those prophesies. According to both of the Apostle John’s books in the Bible (John 1:1 and 1 John 1:1) Jesus, the Word, God’s Son, was there at creation. Jesus is God, just like God the Father and God the Holy Ghost. And God’s love was shown for us in something that can never be changed when Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose from the dead so that we could live forever.
“What manner of love is this!” one scripture says. “Another verse says, “Greater love hath no man that to lay down his life for a friend.” That’s what Jesus did, and it shows God’s love for us better than anything. God loves you, just as you are and will always love you, even if you don’t serve Him. But He longs for you to give your life to Him, to accept Jesus as your Savior, and turn from sin. That’s the love story of the Bible, and it has a happy ending -- living forever with Jesus in joy and bliss.
©Ada Brownell
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