Human Nature

Human nature gets a bad rap.  It is blamed for all the bad stuff.  It is the explanation for our wrong choices.  It is what drags us down into the miry pit and the boggy clay of life.  It gets us in a mess.  If there is anything wrong, we can always say something like, "Well, I am only human."  Indeed, in our day human nature gets a bad rap.  It gets a bad rap because it is not our human nature which is the culprit.  Instead, it is just an easy way to explain away stuff in a way that makes the bad stuff seem justifiable.    

Someone needs to say, "It just ain't so!"  Human nature deserves better than a bad rap.  When we read the Genesis account of creation which introduces the unfolding story of the Creator and the human creatures He created, we read a Word which tells us that human nature is not inherently bad, or evil.  Instead of being bad, the Scripture includes it inside all that is created and described as "...indeed, it was very good."  (Genesis 1:31)   This human nature we want to blame for all the stuff that makes a mess out of living and causes us to know alienation from our Creator is not something bad, but good.    

What may be true is the primal human nature put in us through creation has become distorted.  It has become like a window that is flawed making everything viewed through it as something which it is not.  When God put this human nature inside of us, He did not create a sin mechanism, but a mechanism which would enable us to know Him, relate to Him, receive divine love and care from Him, and be the one means through which we would experience oneness with the One who put it there.  And while we may be broken in need of some restoration and while we may be wearing the name of sinner in need of redemption, we were created not for our brokenness, but for wholeness.