Being Human

We often excuse some of the things we do which we know we should not do by saying, "Well, I am only human."  To read and think about the story of the beginning in the book of Genesis is to come to a different conclusion.  To take those words seriously would cause us to declare the fact that we do some of the things we do which we should not do because we are not human.  To be human in its rawest form is to be one who bears the imprint of the Holy.    

We are not made as anything but holy.  We are created as God intended for us to be.  We are created for a purpose as surely is every bush and tree, every creature great and small, and every wonder of creation that we see in awe.  The creation points toward the Creator.  Each part of it glorifies the Creator by doing what it is created to do.  We best glorify the Creator not by our words of praise and lifted hands, but by living according to the purpose for which He created us.  In our case we were born to glorify Him with our living.  It is our purpose.   

We are conceived and born as a holy creation of a loving Father and Creator.  It is the moment of our conception and birth that we are, therefore, truly human for we are in sync with the reason for our being.  It is when we are swayed to accept some other choice in life other than our created purpose that we become something less than human. It is at this point that our humanity becomes tainted with sin and it is out of that brokenness that we wrongly blame our creation.  To say we sin because we are only human is to blame God for our sin.  He did not create us for sin, but to bring glory to Him.