Audience of One

Unique

Humans are obviously unique. But it’s surprisingly hard to say why. (New Scientist, 24 May 2008.)

Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created human beings in his own image,
   in the image of God he created them;
   male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26-27, NIV.)

When God is no longer in the picture, we’re left with the blind, pitiless indifference of the Selfish Gene. Without God, we can never be clear on what it means to be truly human. Because of Jesus, we can see clearly what humanity is like! We’re more sinful than we ever imagined (the necessity of the cross shows us that, and we stand in stark contrast to the way Jesus lived), but we’re more loved than we ever dreamed (the fact that Jesus died that death for us shows us that!). In Jesus we see a picture of true humanity, worshipping God with our whole lives, as we were intended to be.

We find the eternal joy we were made for in the eternal God who made us. We find what it means to be human.

Matthew @ 09:53, May 28, 2008 to | Comments (0)