It is the story of who we are, why we are here, and how God Himself — the Creator of the cosmos — calls us home.
In the beginning — Genesis 1:1 tells us — "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
God did not stumble upon chaos and try to make sense of it. He spoke — and from His Word, galaxies spun, oceans swelled, trees rooted, and the first dawn broke the darkness.
As Psalm 33:6 declares, "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth."
Creation was not random.
Creation is not random now.
God created with design: with physical, moral, and spiritual absolutes.
Like the laws that govern the stars and the tides, there are laws written deep into the fabric of existence: into nature, into conscience, and into the soul.
Then, in His crowning act, God formed man and woman — not merely as advanced creatures, but in His own image. Genesis 1:27 tells us:
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
What does it mean to be created in the image of God?
It means we were made to reflect His nature — a union of body, mind, and spirit.
Not by accident, not by necessity — but by love.
We were made, as the Psalmist says, "a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor." (Psalm 8:5)
But something happened.
Something tore the veil.
Something broke the sacred harmony.
Scripture calls it sin — a word that has become heavy and battered, but at its root, it simply means "to miss the mark."
We missed the mark.
When Adam and Eve reached for the forbidden tree, they were not simply breaking a rule.
They were grasping for God's throne.
They were saying, "We can be like God… without God."
And so the relationship fractured.
As Isaiah 53:6 confesses,
"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way."
C.S. Lewis once said,
“The moment you have a self at all, there is the possibility of putting yourself first — wanting to be the center — wanting to be God, in fact. That was the sin of Satan: and that was the sin he taught the human race.”
We traded light for shadows.
We reached for something we could never master, and in our grasping, we became blind.
But the story does not end there.
It never ends there.
Because even as humanity wandered, God continued to speak.
He spoke through the whisper of Creation itself — the mountains, the seas, the birth of every child, the mystery of every seed that falls to the ground and rises again.
Psalm 19 declares:
"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge." (Psalm 19:1-2)
And God spoke through prophets — across centuries, across cultures — weaving one golden thread of promise through the tattered cloth of history.
He called Abraham to leave everything behind.
He wrestled with Jacob until dawn.
He whispered to Elijah not in earthquake or fire but in the still small voice.
And then, finally, God did something unimaginable.
The Word that spoke the stars into being became flesh.
John 1:14:
"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."
Jesus came.
Not simply to teach — but to reveal.
Not simply to heal — but to make whole.
He taught the very truths of Creation, not with lofty arguments, but with parables:
The mustard seed.
The treasure hidden in a field.
The lost sheep.
He spoke to the spirit, bypassing the cluttered mind and hardened heart, calling to the deepest part of us that still remembers Eden.
And then — on a mountainside — He gave us the greatest sermon ever spoken:
The Sermon on the Mount.
He did not start with condemnation.
He did not begin with rules.
He began with blessings.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven..." (Matthew 5:3)
The Beatitudes are not just beautiful sayings.
They are the compass for our return to what we were created for.
They are the map back to the heart of God.
The Beatitudes teach us to let our spirits lead — with humility, with mercy, with a hunger for righteousness — guiding our minds and bodies into communion with the Holy Spirit.
For Jesus did not come merely to point the way; He is the Way.
John 14:6:
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
In His life, Jesus showed us the nature of God.
In His death, He showed us the love of God.
And in His resurrection, He showed us the power of God — power not to dominate, but to renew and restore.
As Paul writes in Romans 6:4:
"We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life."
Eternal life does not begin when we die.
It begins when we abide in Christ now.
John 17:3:
"Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
When we live following The Way — the Way of Jesus — we are not merely surviving.
We are living into the prophetic rhythms of the seen and unseen worlds.
We begin to dance to the music of the cosmos.
We begin to move with the heartbeat of Heaven.
We realize that there are no "ordinary" moments, no "accidental" encounters.
As C.S. Lewis reminds us,
"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."
When Christ abides in us — and we abide in Him — the garden of Eden is planted anew within our own hearts.
We are no longer reaching blindly for a fruit we cannot grasp.
We are being fed the Bread of Life Himself.
And that changes everything.
Everything.
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In closing, let me say this:
The world tells you to seek your truth.
Jesus says, "I am the truth." (John 14:6)
The world tells you to follow your heart.
Jesus says, "Follow me." (Matthew 4:19)
The world tells you that you are enough.
Jesus tells you: "You are loved, and through Me, you are made whole." (John 15:9)
Today, I invite you:
Lay down the burden of trying to be your own god.
Return to your Creator.
Live into the physical, moral, and spiritual absolutes that anchor reality itself.
Live into the prophetic rhythms that Jesus has made possible for you — not by your striving, but by His grace.
Let your body, mind, and spirit sing together again, as they were always meant to.
Let your life, as small and precious as it is, be caught up in the eternal symphony of God's redemption.
As the Apostle Paul writes in Acts 17:28:
"In Him we live and move and have our being."
Amen.