This message is a brief insight God gave me while reading the Book of Acts with my family, and it will be followed by a in-depth series.
The following quotes are from three different editions of the Bible, and as I read them, the Holy Spirit began to reveal so much to me that I began to see them.
“…For in him we live, and move, and have our being…”
“…For it is in closest union with Him that we live and move and have our being…”
“…For in him we have life and motion and existence…”
Because these passages describe who we truly are and how we should truly interact with God, I was ecstatic; because, as further reading from this section stated:
... Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device...
... Since then, we are God's offspring. We ought not to imagine that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man.
... If we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man. "
The beauty and message behind this is that when we understand that we have been "created in the image of God" and that we are "His offspring," we will then understand that we are like him, and since he is not a manmade tangible thing, we will understand that there is so much purpose for us.
If we were to refer to the story of Tarzan, for example, we have this boy who is raised by apes and is unable to reach his fullest potential both mentally and as a person as a whole because he believes that he is an ape. He therefore walks, talks, thinks, and reasons like an ape. However, when a child is raised by human beings, he starts to learn from birth how to think logically and apply his mind. He, therefore, begins to walk into his purpose, unlike a child who, like Tarzan, is raised by apes.
This Tarzan example also applies to us in the sense that we can only truly begin to live out our highest potential and purpose when we have communion and a close relationship with our Creator, in whose image we have been made.
When we try to find our purpose and exist outside of Him, it is no different to looking at other species for direction as to how we ought to act, live, and "have or be." We will never be able to find the answers we seek unless we are connected to our originator, God, and recognize that he is not a created thing.
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