CANNOT BE BOXED
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Genesis 2:7-22 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. … And the LORD God said, It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
…. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made
he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
John 3:1-18 … even as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up, 15 so that whosoever believes in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His
only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. 17 For God did not
send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might
be saved through Him. 18 He who believes
on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
There are people
that try to understand mankind by categorizing people in chart boxes and files.
Some time ago someone
showed me some charts in a discover-and-appreciate-yourself book written by a
few Ph.D.s, exclaiming in great relief “See, that’s me . . . now I completely
understand myself!”
When I pointed
out a few of their characteristics that didn’t mesh in their sector of some of
the charts: For one, an item saying analytical individuals have difficulty
making decisions. Whereas, though analytical, the friend gathered facts and
quickly arrived at a conclusion, decided, and took action. Whereas another
acquaintance never analyzed any issue and was expensively indecisive.
My friend
immediately looked troubled (Optimal fragility in response to outside stimuli;
a trait in a different sector.), looked thoughtful . . . and then with
realization declared “I’m unique, aren’t I?!!”
God made Adam,
then built Eve uniquely different, and has done so with men and women ever
since. We may say “She/he is just like ______!!!” but this is never so.
Examining the
Hebrew in Genesis chapter 2 we find that God squeezed Adam into shape from the
elements, dust, earth, at hand; whereas He took a rib from Adam and built Eve.
And He has been wondrously forming us ever since.
There is only one
characteristic we have in common. A book has been compiled on the normal
inherent trait of humanity: We all are
sinful, needing redemption, with Jesus being the only trustworthy Redeemer.
Analytical or
not, it is decision that definitely requires agreement with God to escape eternal
condemnation. EBB4
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