Hey, here’s what I'll call a “jot or tittle” from my reading in the scripture this morning in the book of John, specifically John 3: 13, where Jesus says to Nicodemus, who doesn't get the idea of being born again, that if I have told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?
I got to thinking, “What are the earthly things that Nicodemus should have known, that the people of God should have known?”
And one would be that the heavens, the earth, all of creation reveals the glory of God. And when we can't see the unseen realities being revealed in creation, then how can we ever believe and see that there is a recreation by Christ through the Holy Spirit, according to the will of the Father, of the image of God in us?
I think sometimes we're so subconsciously subdued and subjected in our thinking by evolution, that we don't see the mystery of the unseen things, that the seen things are revealing to us.
In other words, if we see human beings as merely the sum of their body parts, male and female defined strictly in light of their body parts, well, we've lost the soul; we've lost the unseen.
And when we reduce, as Christians, what it means to be male and female to body parts, and we can't see the unseen [that is their whole and true nature], then how can we ever believe that we truly are being renewed to the image of God in the person of Jesus Christ, who is the image of God?
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