The never-ending experiment… (pt 3)
The foundation is central to our core being because it is what we cannot see, but know it’s there. Just like there’s more to you than what others around you may see. Or, the air—you don’t see it, but you know it’s there because you breathe it in and out every second of your life.
Understand this: your life is far beyond what you can physically see, and it takes seeing life through a different lens in order to see beyond what our natural eyes cannot perceive. Standing firm on the unchanging foundation will allow you to see beyond the natural, as this foundation gives you peace and doesn’t operate under confusion, chaos, or disorder. Regardless of what’s happening in the ever-changing world, this foundation remains the same yesterday, today, and forever. True understanding of this unchanging foundation requires us to look past the surface to acknowledge who created it, along with its foundational purpose.
When we step outside and see the sky and what occupies it—the sun, moon, stars, and birds; the waters and what occupies them; and the dry land and what occupies it—the trees, vegetation, creatures, and humans—we are looking at the work of a living God. Creation is one powerful way God has made His presence known. Another way He has revealed Himself is through the Holy Bible, which is divinely inspired—not a product of human wisdom, but literally breathed out by Him. The Bible is unlike any other book; it is the living Word of God that brings about lasting, supernatural change in those who receive it.
When we open the Bible, the very first thing it reveals to us is God speaking the entire universe into existence. He established a precise order where everything has an intentional purpose under His authority. When He created humanity, He did something completely different from the various living creatures. Yes, God blessed them, telling them to be fruitful and multiply, but with humanity, God said:
“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the seas and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” (Genesis 1:26).
And like everything else that God spoke, it happened. God created male and female in His image and blessed them, saying to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. Humanity was set apart, made like God in a way that other living creatures were not. We are uniquely designed to resemble Him in our ability to think, to communicate, and to be in deep relationship with Him and others.
Morgan