November 20, 2020
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. ~ C.S. Lewis ~ |
We are made in the image of God. The Imago Dei. As such, we have immense intrinsic worth to the Lord our God. It also means that we share with God aspects and abilities that include being rational, relational, emotional, volitional, and spiritual. As creatures created by our Creator, we share what are called, Communicable Attributes. Although God in His essence is perfect love, wisdom, and holy, we are able to experience partially these communicable attributes. We have this ability and capability because we are made in the image of God. What about the attribute of Eternality? God is the eternal one, with no beginning and no ending. ("From everlasting to everlasting you are God.” Psalm 90:2). But we who are made in the image of God are also created as eternal beings. We look forward to eternality called eternal life experienced as both a quality now and a quantity then. (John 10:10) God is not trapped by time, but He is hidden from us through time. (Psalm 90:4) The writer of much wisdom, Solomon the Preacher, in the book of Ecclesiastes reminds us; “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” Have you ever had that sense that you were made for somewhere else? You were. Have you ever felt that something is fundamentally incomplete? It is. When Paul says our citizenship is in heaven, he reminds us that we are not home yet. We await the great transition through the coming of the Lord Jesus who will transform our bodies and transfigure our spirit to find ourselves in the glorious presence of God. Inside our self, our soul longs for this and our spirit moans for this because as Pascal reminds us: “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” Until that “day” arrives, we are to hear and heed the words of the Apostle Peter as he commands us. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. Serving Him with you Until He comes for us, Fred Chay |
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