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What Are You?

by leekierdorf

Some say, I am only a sinner saved by grace. That is not true. You are also a child of God if you have believed in Jesus.

Your status has changed. In a dramatic way. You have passed from death to life.

A sinner is one whose life is characterized by sin. Is that you? Has there been no change in your behavior?

You were an enemy of God but now you have been reconciled to Him through the blood of his son, Jesus.

This is the greatest change that a person can have. No, you didn’t deserve it. But it is false humility to call yourself a sinner. You are now one of God’s own. Let your light shine.

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Soul

by leekierdorf

Do you know what your soul is?

Your soul, as well as your body, is a gift of God.

Where did you come from? Your mother gave birth to your body but she did not create your soul.

Our body does what we want it to do. We forget that all this had to be learned as a small child.

We did not know how it worked at our beginning. We learned to process what we could see. We learned how to use our arms and legs. Yes, we learned to walk.

And our hands are most remarkable! Consider the opposable thumb.

Yet, our soul remains a mystery. Our soul is made by God, in his image. And our soul needs God very much. If we have been “saved” by Jesus, what does this mean to our soul?

Since we are no longer at war with God, we have peace in our soul.

Moses asked God if he could see His Glory. God showed him some of it.

Job asked God for an answer to why he had such losses in his life. He received an answer from God.

Do we desire more from God?

Jesus said, “Seek and you will find.”

And there is alway more of God to be found by us.

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What Happened to Adam?

by leekierdorf

Adam only speaks a few times in Genesis.
He speaks in response to seeing the woman:

This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Later, he answers the Lord’s question:

Where are you?

And Adam said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

These two statements are very different. He is not especially self aware in speaking of the woman. He states facts, gives her a name and explains why.

But in the second, he uses the word “I” four times. He has become extremely self aware and is only concerned with himself.

What happened between his two statements?

He ate the fruit of the one forbidden tree. The root of sin is selfishness to the exclusion of others.

This is exactly what Adam shows. His nakedness bothers him now because he feels disconnected from God, his wife, and nature itself.

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