A Living Being

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

A LIVING BEING

Gen 2:4-7

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens —  5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground —  7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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There was this mist, which is the more direct meaning of the Hebrew word,'ed, like a fog, or vapor, a mist, that covered the surface of the land. Although it is not recorded as to how long this mist covered the land, it would make sense it was early each morning and when the sun began to shine and heat up the land, the mist fell away. But each morning all the plants’ life that began to spring forth from the ground, every kind according to each own, every seed-bearing plant, and trees of every kind. Yet there was no man to work the ground. Here is where we get our beginning. We already know that we were form from the dust of the ground, but we also know that we were formed in the image of God. However, as with the earlier account, when we are told we were made in the likeness of God, that is their image, which we already considered the three in one and that is the likeness in which we were formed. Now we are at that place where we get the breath of God in our lungs which makes us a living being. Although, it would seem this only applied to the first man, or Adam and after that God no longer got involved in the rest of our lives, as in our beginnings in the womb. Job makes that clear in his talking about how he treats his menservants and maidservants, that did not God make them as he did Job in the womb of their mothers. The psalmist speaks of God forming him in his mother’s womb. Isaiah also speaks of about the Lord who formed him in the womb. Jeremiah makes the point the Lord God knew him before he formed him in the womb. It is clear that each and everyone of us have been formed by God into who are to be, and we cannot escape the idea that we too have the breath of God in our lungs. We understand the genetics of following or having the genes of our parents and may resemble their physical appearances to some amount, but we are each one individual person, different in every way, for each of us have been formed by God in the womb of our mothers. We are not simply the offspring, like that of animals, but we are a living being formed by God and who have his breath within us. How wonderfully we have been made and we should appreciate that God is so intimately involved in our lives. How can we not live thankfully, and always be praising him and giving him all the glory. We know our lives, being made by God, should reflect him and his glory in our lives. The question is if we are successful reflecting his glory or have, we quenched his glory, so that we might try to have our own form of glory to receive praise from men. We should be careful to only reflect his glory, people will give him praise. Let us always remember it is God who made us a living being.