Have you ever stopped to think about what it must have been like when God created people?\u00a0 I picture Creation as a kind of artistic event\u2014where God stands back looking at a blank canvas and formulates his ideas and then says \u201cLet there be\u2026\u201d like an artist brushing strokes of color to create the image held in his mind.\u00a0 Then he steps back and says \u201cIt\u2019s good.\u201d and keeps adding more and more to the picture.\u00a0 But when he had finished everything else and was ready to make people he became the sculptor.\u00a0 It\u2019s like he got down on his hands and knees and picked up the dirt on the ground and shaped it into a man.\u00a0 This part of his creation he wanted to do more than just speak into existence.\u00a0 He wanted to mold Adam with his own hands and then breathe life into him.<\/p>\n
And it seems that the farther we drift from God (as individuals and a culture) the less we care about Human life.\u00a0 It tends to become less important to us.\u00a0 A thief can wind up serving more time in jail than a murderer.\u00a0 Old people, unborn children, and the disabled are seen as less valuable.\u00a0 And we suffer as a people because of it.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s time to take a fresh look at what it means to be a human being with the breath of God in our lungs that sustains us and makes us alive.<\/p>\n
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