Becoming

Genesis 2:4-7

We head ever deeper into a story, a road traveled. There is important teaching here, but the teaching is not prior to the story. In other words, it is not moralistic in the sense that someone said something like, ‘I want to teach this so I’m going to tell this story to convey it.’ It’s more like real life, because that’s what it is. There are things to be discerned in our own stories, but our life stories are not concoctions to convey points. God could do that, but he seems to take our personhood more seriously than that.

We should be prepared, therefore, to find more questions raised than answers provided. But the more we are drawn into it, the more we will see ourselves in it, be drawn together and to the author. The answers we seek will come from living that story together.

We are living beings because of the breath (the same word can be translated ‘spirit’ or ‘wind’) of God in us. We can depend on him for the inspiration we need in every respect.

Prayer:
Your Word is so full of wonder, God. It has all the excitement of fantasy, but is even more intriguing and involving because it is anything but fantasy. May your Word fill my heart as well as my mind, that my understanding may come from closeness with you. Through Christ. Amen.