Humans Being

April 5, 2008 | 6 comments

Danny

It came to me somewhere around mile 5 yesterday as one of my lungs was exploding out my nose and my feet felt super-glued to the treadmill. What’s the point? The question began with a focus on my legs and exploding lungs. “What’s the point of doing this to myself?” As mile 6 approached somehow the focus evolved to the whole of humanity and our point of existence. Why did God create us, what is the point, and what are we to be doing? As I watched the trees outside my window sway in the wind, a crow land on the telephone wires, and a car drive by, I suddenly was overwhelmed with His pleasure in the state of simple being. Our point, our purpose, is to just be. I think we get so caught up in “what’s God’s will for my life, what’s His plan” that we forget He finds the greatest delight in our simple existence. It’s why He made us. We, like spider-webs, trees, bumble-bees, birds, and all the rest of creation have been created as an expression of His divine wisdom and power. Humans being the pinnacle of this expression display His divinity with such detail that to contemplate the physical, spiritual, emotional essence of our being is to be overwhelmed with a genius Creator beyond our imagination. I resolved at the wrap up of mile six to just be. I quit running yesterday in a million more ways then just getting off that treadmill. I stopped in the depths of my soul running from the reality that God finds His greatest pleasure in me existing in light of Him, just being. This seems to be so against the current flow of Christianity. Rather than pursuing his will, seeking to find His plans, striving to do His work, I’m determining to just be. Like the spider-web hanging from the branches, like the tree swaying in the wind, the bird on the power-line, no pursuits, no striving, no laboring, just being. For some reason it seems that if humanity would just “be” than so much in our lives and world would be made so much better all around. I pray for our church that we would ever more simply become His “humans being”. Just His people loving and living as He created us with the deepest satisfaction in the fact that we are nothing more then “humans being”.

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April 6th, 2008

Judd Johnstone

I agree very much… It seems when I try to strive and find out who and what God wants me to be I go crazy and even get depressed. It seems as though that should be our mind set is to be and do what God wants. But the only way that can be accomplished is simply “being”. God created us in His image why strive outside of that. Thanks for the blessing!

April 6th, 2008

Melanie

That was so encouraging Danny. Thanks for sharing.

April 13th, 2008

Terry Sherman

It’s through our being with Him and enjoying Him that we learn how to follow Him. Indeed, following is not striving, it’s letting Him lead the way. Following someone up a mountain trail isn’t always easy, but the path is already chosen; we don’t have to determine it or map it all out ahead of time. That’s His job, and we just follow. In my own life, it’s when I’ve chosen to simply be with Him and enjoy Him that I discover His rest and stop striving to be or do what I think He wants of me. Then I’m in a place to receive whatever He wants to give me, with joy and trust.

April 14th, 2008

Danny

Right on Terry. I think the greatest struggle by far is trusting that the path, even in the steepest points of agony, is indeed His path.

April 28th, 2008

Marina

I often find myself worrying about pleasing God. I understand he finds joy in humans just “being” but is there a way to “be” wrong? How does sin play into that idea? Are we supposed to “be” while following his guidelines he set for us? I struggle with “being” wrong. I suppose you just have to follow the Lord on his path and pray when you find yourself wandering off in another direction.

April 29th, 2008

Danny

This is the greatness of God’s grace Marina. We are infinitely worse then we could ever imagine yet infinitely loved beyond our ability to understand. You are correct in stating that we should just follow the Lord on His path. This is the most pleasurable part of our walk with Him. The Cross has brought about a righteousness that is not our own yet given freely and God’s greatest pleasure is that we exist, “be”, living that truth more and more.

Fantastic questions and I’m praying for you.

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