All of life is purposed and all persons have a particular place in that purpose. When God the Father ordained life He ordained the specific purpose of each and every aspect of life. It is all interwoven into one gigantic scheme of life that continuously evolves toward the final hour. When that hour comes it will be finalized. Humankind will have achieved its destiny.
It is the will of Almighty God that we live in harmonious relationships. His plan is that we learn how to resolve our differences through loving concern. And when we don’t, we contribute to the discord that is already prevalent in the world. One is the product of their environment, when they fail to heed the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is that quiet inner voice that speaks to us from the depths of our heart.
When one perceives that Almighty God is the Author and Giver of life; then and only then, can they pursue the destiny that God the Father has mapped out. The Creator of life is the controller of life. It is the power of God that sustains the universe. And it is the power of God that ordains life to it’s purpose. When men pursue their destiny, it is the Creator of all life that is leading them.
Men must come to realize that God is who He says that He is. He is the Almighty I AM that I AM.
The problem with life is that we have failed to acknowledge the Presence of God in our daily affairs. Life has become a form of living without substance. To live without substance is to live without hope of an eternal destiny. The primary cause of the failures in life is that man fails to enter into an intimate and fulfilling relationship with the Almighty.
It is inconceivable that man has chosen to fashion Almighty God after his own perception, rather than after the plan of God. When men choose to follow their own path, it becomes a crooked trail. When men likened God unto themselves and made no effort to fashion themselves after God, theirs was the free-will choice that established the way of destruction. However, when one chooses to follow the path that God has set before them, it becomes a journey with purpose and a destiny. Each person must find the road they are ordained to travel.
The directed will of God is outside the time/space constraints. Eternal God operates in the realm beyond the physical. There are no time/space constraints in the spiritual world; only thought transference. When men refuse to allow Almighty God to direct their daily affairs, they then proceed to limit their activities to the time/space dimension of life.
We have only to look around us and give serious thought to what we see, and it becomes evident that there is intelligence and a harmony that underlies all of creation. Instinctively we know that somewhere we have a place in this great and marvelous universe that surrounds us. There comes a time in the life of each one of us, when we stand in awe of the magnitude and mystery, that are an integral part of creation itself, and we wonder what it all means for us.
Each one of us must find within ourselves the meaning of life; that purpose for which we came into existence. We must discover the way of thinking and acting that will give us peace and bring us to wholeness. And that must come from our own reality. We are not carbon copies of some other person’s perception of reality. All of our life we have been aware of that person deep within us, who yearns to know the answers to the age old questions of “Who am I?”And “Where am I going?
A serious search for the truth requires that we question those concepts that we hold about our life. The first step in understanding what it means to be created in the “image and likeness of God”, is to pay attention to that person deep inside of you, who instinctively knows that there is a place for you in this vast, complex, wonderful universe.
If we really look through questioning eyes at the order of the world around us, we see intelligence and harmony. Everything in nature has a design and a season. Our bodies are incredibly miraculous in their design. When we step back from the sights and sounds of the world, we can truly see the creation that surrounds us. All the wondrous beauty in nature, the warmth and love of our pets, the blaze of colors in our flower garden; we begin to sense that we are truly part of a universe that could only have been created by an intelligent Being.
When we have taken the time to see the world around us, we are led to reflect on our personal relationship with the Creator of such order. And even if we have never read or studied the Bible, we have heard over the years that the Bible is the written Word of Almighty God, the Creator of all things.
Let us start with the very first chapter in the Bible, because it is there that we are told, that we are created in the “image and likeness of God”. (Gen .1:26, 27). Wow! What an incredible concept to think of ourselves in the likeness of God. A concept that is much too big for us to get our minds around, until we come to the realization that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways. (Isaiah. 55:8)
What does it mean to be created in the image and likeness of God? God is Spirit and when mankind was created, they were given a spiritual nature along with their physical body. Throughout the centuries, the people of God have recognized that God manifested to His people in ways that showed His love and care for us as a parent. Scripture is filled with the promises that God has given, and fulfilled, to His people. So through the Word, and the directed will of God, we are given to know of the wonderful inheritance that Our Father has provided for us.
Spiritual life is simply the expressed knowledge of the Presence of God Almighty. All other life exists for the purpose of modifying ones behavior to understand the purpose of living. That is to say that God has purposed life and until one finds that purpose they are only existing.
When we “bump our heads” on the consequences of bad choices, they are the experiences that may serve to redirect us to a fuller understanding of the principles inherent in God’s design.
When God is in full control then life takes on meaning. Life is truly the extension of the Almighty in His plan of fulfillment for His creation. When life has purpose, it is being directed by the Holy Spirit, but when life consists of meaningless wandering it is because it is under the direction of the Prince of darkness. This is a literal truth.
Christ the beginning and the end taught the principles of life during His ministry on earth. Jesus gave us the guidelines in His teaching of love, mercy, justice and hope.
