We are not God, therefore, bought with absolute and final reality, we are very small, our existence is secondary and depends on the absolute reality of God, he is the only Being that exists for himself in the universe. We are derivatives, it has always existed and had no beginning, so no one shaped it. We, on the other hand, receive form, that’s right. However, we were created. Am I who I am? It is His name (Exodus 3:14).
- However.
- Since He created us with the most sublime design for a creature?Enjoy and manifest the glory of the Creator?we can have a very substantial life that lasts forever.
- That’s why we were created (? Everything was created by him and for him?Cl 1.
- 16).
- That’s why our sexuality was redeemed (?a price.
- Now.
- Glorify God in your body ?? Co 10.
- 31).
- Is that why we pray (?And whatever you ask in my name.
- Will I do.
- That the Father may be glorified in the Son?Jn 14:13).
- That’s why we do good deeds (? May your light shine also before men.
- That they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven?Mt 5.
- 16).
Is this the reason we exist? Demonstrate the glory of God. Human life is completely focused on Dios. Es the meaning of being human. Our nature was created to magnify God; our glory is to give glory to God; when we fulfill this raison d’eer, we have substance; there is value and meaning in our existence; to know, enjoy, and manifest God’s glory is to share god’s glory. We do not become God, but is it part of God’s greatness and beauty upon us when we achieve this purpose of our existence?Reflect God’s excellence, This is our substance.
Not fulfilling this purpose for human existence is simply a shadow of the substance that God wanted to possess when He created us, not to manifest the glory of God by having fun, above all, is to be just an echo of the music God wanted. do when He created us.
It’s a great tragedy. Human beings were not created to be shadows and echoes, we were created to have the characteristics of our God, to make divine music and have a divine impact, this is what it means to be created in the image of God (Genesis 1: But when men abandon their Creator and love more other things, do they become similar to the things they love?Insignificant, useless, worthless, unimportant and demeaning of God.
Look how the Psalmist presented this fact: “The idols of nations are silver and gold, the work of men. They have mouths and do not speak; they have eyes and they don’t see; they have ears and they don’t see. “hears; because there is no breath of life in your mouth, how do they become the ones who make them and everyone who trusts them?(Come out 135,15-18; see also Sal 115,4-8).
Think and shake. You look like the things done by men and trust: mute, blind, deaf, it is a shadow of existence. It’s a simple echo of what God wanted you to be, it’s an empty mimicry in the scene of history, with a lot of movement and little meaning.
Dear reader, do not be shadow and echo. Get rid of the spirit of centrality in humans, an epidemic of our time. Look determinedly, see, know, and appreciate life in the light of the Lord. “Come, jacob’s house, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. (Est 2. 5). In the light of the Lord, you will see him and see all things as they really are. You will wake up from the drowsiness of an existence in the land of shadows. You’ll crave the substance and find it. It will make your life divine music. Death will only be a journey to paradise. And what they leave behind will not be shadows and echoes, but a tribute on earth, written in heaven, to God’s triumphant grace.
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