The complexity of the human anatomy and physiology fascinates even the most unbelieving scientists given the fact that, at least from the standpoint of Christianity, God formed us out of the dust of the earth.
The design of our internal system is absolutely brilliant that sensible and intellectually honest people would have difficulty assuming that man is only a by-product of a certain natural process or chance. The existence of man and the complexity of the design of human physiology and anatomy presuppose a Grand Designer. Consider for a moment the eye. The eye has been called the window to the world. It is so amazing that this ball-in-a-socket thing can see the things around us. Is it merely by sheer chance that we are able to see the things around us? Is it only by mere chance that the anatomy of the eye became exactly like it is? How in the world a dead rock would become something like the eye after billions of years? There are so many things to see around us that we need the eye to see them. I suppose that the eye is there because it is designed for the purpose of seeing the things that need to be seen. In other words, there must be a reason why we have a pair of eyes. We have this ball-in-a-socket thing neither because of mere chance nor of a natural process. There must be a reason why we have these “windows to the world.” And if our eyes have a purpose for being there, then there must be a Designer for there can only be a purpose for something if somebody designed it.
But God did not only design man’s entire morphological structure; he also designed his spiritual makeup. The Biblical truth that says that God created man according to his image refers to far beyond the physical being of man. It points to the more “complex” or even mysterious part of man which is the soul/spirit. And because man is created in God’s image, he expects man to take him seriously on a personal level having personal relationship with him as in a father-child relationship and not merely for religious purposes. Being created in the image of God, man should always be in a reciprocating mode to God.
People who take God only as part of their duties (i.e., religious) and come to God only when they are in trouble are at best harming their own selves without them realizing it. They are harming themselves because that is not God’s design of man. God designed man according to his own image so that man would “walk and talk with him in the garden,” that is, to have a personal relationship with him.
In the process of time, every man would soon realize that something is missing in their lives, but it takes deep humility and forthright honesty with oneself to admit that it is God that one really needs.
God designed us with the “imago dei” or the “image of God” stamped in us. And because of that our lives cannot have real fulfilment without God himself personally relating to us and us to him. True fulfilment in life is never found within the created order; it can only be found in the Creator himself because everything God created is temporal, thus, cannot fulfill something that is designed for eternity like the souls/spirit. And this soul/spirit that God designed us with is, by default, hungry for God. This hunger is a hunger for something that is eternal and it is insatiable until eternity gets into the individual’s soul/spirit. But the human tendency is to search for something that would satisfy his/her soul/spirit within the created order, and that is because of the fact that we are also satisfied by the temporal in terms of our physical structure. Man, in his pursuit to satisfy his greatest need within (i.e., spiritual need) has mistakenly thought that this need could also be addressed by physical or material means to the point of daring to try to satisfy such need without the recognition of the Creator.
Since man is also (and I would say, primarily) a spiritual being, he/she is not meant to live for the physical or material only. Jesus implicitly says that we could pursue material things and yet still leave our soul unfulfilled and even be in danger of losing it (Mark 8:36).
Until we allow God to enter into our lives we will experience a death-like existence. We exist but no life at all – no fulfilment and no true happiness at all. Even the most successful man in this world could just merely exist and not really live the life God intended for him. Albert Einstein once said: “It is strange to be so well known in the whole world and be lonely.” And what about the story of the man behind the film “The Aviator”? Howard Hughes was one of the wealthiest men during his time. At the age of 45 he was one of the most glamorous men in America. He piloted exotic test aircraft, owned chains of hotels all over the world, and even an airline – TWA. At age 65, “the aviator” still had plenty of money – $ 2.3 billion, to be exact and yet he died as one of the most pathetic and lonely men in this world.
Jesus said, “Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). Man should not only address the physical side of his being. He needs to address the spiritual side as well because he is designed to do as such. He is designed with a soul that only the eternal God can fulfill and give real life to. We might temporarily get away with a physical reconstruction to satisfy the physical but nobody can do a “spiritual reconstruction” of the soul. Only God can reconstruct the spiritual side of our being because he alone is the Grand Designer of our being.
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