Creation meet your Creator

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. (Psalm 139:13-14)

How well do you know the one who created all that you are? If we want to understand him more, we need only ask for his help to see clearly what he says, does, and doesn't do. Yes, I said the things he doesn't do because there are just some things that are contrary to his nature, while they may be inherent in our own human nature. He doesn't sin - it isn't in is nature. He won't contradict himself - it isn't in his nature. He won't go back on a promise - it isn't in his nature. While all those things may be part of our human nature, they are not part of his. God made us in his image, but we were born with a sin nature - able to choose to do the things that are contrary to his nature. We need his exchanged nature in order to live upright and holy lives as he intended.

Part of what he fashioned within each of us is our spirit - the place where his Spirit was designed to dwell. If we want to live complete lives, we need his Spirit within to fill that void that was created specifically for him. Our minds will be transformed by the power of the Spirit of God within us. Our choices will begin to change. Our emotions will find a balance or harmony. Without his presence in our lives, we make some pretty dumb mistakes based on some pretty dumb misconceptions. Misconceptions such as we are the most important ones in our world - our needs come first. Where his Spirit dwells, there is a change of focus - from us to him first.

God's plan in creation was to have a people who would fellowship with him. Fellowship is possible when we allow his Spirit to indwell us and to change our priorities in life. When we say 'yes' to Jesus, we welcome his Spirit to go about changing who we put first in our lives. Our 'delicate, inner parts' that he so perfectly knit together begin to function differently. It isn't that our heart beats differently, but our heart certainly directs our choices differently. Our minds don't just focus on the issues around us, seeing them as too hard for us to handle. They turn to him, study his words, and listen to his voice for direction and wisdom. Fellowship means more than just saying 'yes' though. It means we enter into relationship - purposeful and attentive relationship.

We won't walk in the fulness God intended for us until we invite him into our lives. That 'space' is going to finally be filled as intended - as we were created to be filled. The more we give his Spirit access to our lives, the less we will find our focus turning toward 'me, me, me'. Just saying!