Tuesday,
June 6, 2023
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.
Genesis 2:7
An adult human body
consists of slightly more than 200 bones and 78 organs. Five of the organs are considered vital
to life, heart, lungs, liver, kidney, and brain. Now, those are the rudiments of biology, the
basics of structure and function.
However, life is not all biology, just the physical mechanism of the
species; there are also the metaphysical (abstract) body parts, without which
we could not exist. There is spirit and
soul to go with those body parts, and let us not back-shelf what gave life in
the first place, God breathing His own breath into Adam’s assembled body parts. Then, and only then, did he become a living
soul.
God made humankind. God also revealed to Apostle Paul the analogy
that, as a human body functions in concert with all the bones, organs, and
resident breath of God, so the human race, with all its different and unique
parts, is to function inter-dependently, working together for the good of the
body.
Applying that
principle to the “body” of Christ (the church), God’s intention is that the
differences that form us into groups, male/female, nationalities, social
strata, religious sects, etc, fade into the background. As in Adam, Spirit supercedes flesh. As a species, we have light years more in
common than that which divides us.
In the Gospel
accounts we find Jesus under attack by (supposedly) spiritually-wise religious
teachers. They accused him of being
satanically-inspired, because Jesus had healed a demon-possessed man. Jesus, ever the master of logic, as well as
truth, told them their diagnosis was ridiculous…Satan casting-out Satan?
A kingdom divided by
civil war will collapse. Similarly, a family splintered
by feuding will fall apart. Mark 3:24-25
For You Today
Our human bodies were created to have bones which support and protect the inner body parts, and those inner parts strengthen the bones. All of that structure was formed to cooperate with the breath of God inside our spirit and soul. We were created for better than feuding and dividing into camps.
So, here is a word
to hear; gird-up your stapes bone and let it sink-in:
So now I am giving
you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved
you, you should love each other.
Your love for one another will prove to the world that
you are my disciples.” John 13:34-35
There are about 2,500 devotional
posts and 400 sermons in the Rocky Road Devotions
library. To dig deeper explore
some of these: Out of the Dust and Trans-Creation
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