The
Bible tells us in the very first
page of Genesis that God's creation
of man was different
from His creation of all other things. He created man in His own image, after
His likeness. (Gen. 1:26). Just like a glove is made
in the image and likeness of a hand for the
purpose of containing the hand, the human life was
created according to the image and likeness of God for the purpose of containing
God.
Man
is also a vessel, a container (Rom. 9: 23-24). Because
we are
vessels of
God, God wants to be our
content. Just as bottles are made to contain water, we are made to
contain God. This is the reason that knowledge, wealth, material possessions,
and accomplishments can never satisfy
us, because we were created
with the capacity to receive and contain God.
The
Bible divides this vessel into three parts: the spirit, the soul, and the
body (1 Thes. 5:23). The spirit of man is the
faculty made specifically to contain God, to be filled with God. It is deeper
than the soul. Man has never satisfied because this deepest part still remains to
be filled. Through the body man is able only to contact physical things and the
soul psychological things, but through the spirit man is able to contact God,
contain God, and enjoy God.
This
is the purpose of human existence: God wants to enter into man's spirit to
become man's contents and man's satisfaction. Your creation is for the purpose
of containing God into your spirit. May the Lord bless you and cause you to live
according to God's purpose.
--Bible
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