Too Much For My Puny Mind

One day I heard a message that brought in me the desire to analyze more deeply my roots. It was around Thanksgiving time and the pastor was expounding on the time after the flood that destroyed all human beings on earth, but eight people. People lived for hundreds of years in those times. I thought that relating might have been better for them since they were able to talk to each other about their roots. They could go back from generations and see family members many hundreds years old. How exciting that must have been!

The funny part was for me to ponder the fact that all of us currently living on earth came actually from the same eight people. I knew about that, but it was a time for re-introspection. I have heard the speculations, but wonder from which one of the sons of Noah and wives my race came into being for sure. I am considered a Creole in my country because I was born of mixed ancestry which may be a mixture of European, Black, Indian or Spanish. But when I became a citizen of United States of America, I am finding myself choosing either Black or African American when I have to identify my race on a piece of paper. At times, I will choose the “other” category and specify “human race.” Is there such thing as a pure race? My race is considered to be the dominant race (by us black people—SMILE!) because if a black person has a child with a European or someone from any other culture types, and whether the child has the black features or not, the child would be identified as a black person.

Now as we look around and see the many diverse people, with various cultures, is it not funny to recognize that we are after all one family. I remember in studying the evolution theory how the information given to us never clicks in my spirit. I guess I should say that if we agree with the Word of God, we are one family as God says we are. Is it not mind boggling to see what God has been doing in allowing the whole earth to be re-populated from the eight members of the same family after the flood? And if we look further, we were created in the image of God Himself. We are all wonderful spirit beings from the bosom of God placed on earth for a specific assignment and wrapped in a jar of clay.

Most of all, after accepting Jesus in our lives and being born again, we are from a pure bloodline, as one body governed by one spirit, and being transformed daily in the likeness of Jesus who is already glorified by Father. We have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring Word of God (1 Peter 1:23). I, even I, with all my human frailties can consider myself a daughter of the Most High God. Glory to God! Hallelujah!

I heard on TV that one can pay up to $800 to do a DNA test in search for their ancestry that can reveal a family line up to 10,000 years. Doesn't this thought contradict what God says in the bible about the existence of man on earth from Adam to our generation? This DNA test is possible because of various scientific anthropologic studies of the last few decades. Have human been living on this planet at least 10,000 years? The Word of God in Acts 17:26 states that God made from one man every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation. Isn't the way of God unsearchable? Isn't God SUPER smart, great, magnificent and really AWESOME! Oh, the depth of the riches, of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

I think sometimes at how Father is looking at us living our lives and treating each other. It brings great laughter often or great pain. At times when I look at my children misbehaving, I tell them sometimes, where did you guys came from? Do you think Father is saying the same about us all? It seems that I can feel Him laughing when all is well, or be sad and deeply grieved when we misbehave and ignore His commands. The emotions we are feeling, are they not His, since we are in Him, and He is in us when we are His children?

When you look around you and you see someone else, do you think that this is my brother or my sister? Do you even realize and understand fully that, after all, we came from Father and that in Him we live, and move and have our being? (Acts 17:28; Psalm 100:3) Do you know that all you have and all you are, is His? (Romans 11:36) Do you remember His Word in Genesis 1:26 to Jesus and the Holy Spirit: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Do you understand that you are light in the Lord and must live as children of light? (Ephesians 5:8) Are you aware that you must put aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light? (Romans 13:12)

Do you understand that the Holy Spirit – who is the invisible image of Jesus – given to you is now living through and in you if you are a child of God? (Acts 2:38; Acts 16:7) This is so sad to know also that even the ones who do not accept Father's love, grace, mercy and authority are also all alive in Him. Does not He himself created all things and give to all men life, breath and everything? (Acts 17:24-25; Hebrews 11:3; Revelations 4:11) Do you know that you were created for Him, for good works, for His glory, that you are currently seated in heavenly places with Him, and are in Him when you accept Jesus in your life? (Ephesians 2:4-7, 10; Colossians 1:16; John 1:1-5)

Next time you have unkind thoughts, say inappropriate words, or act improperly towards someone else, remember what the Apostle Paul said in Galatians 5:15-16: “If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.” Also, since our physical lives are but a vapor that vanishes, let us learn to live by the Spirit so not to conform to the desires of the sinful nature. May Father have the eyes of our heart enlightened to see that after all we are one family when we are in Jesus. Let us all learn to be gracious towards each other, to be thankful to Father who called us to this marvelous life of light, and remember that we are all in all, in Christ, in God the Father, and are all in it together!

Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and obey it! (Luke 11:28)

Marie Monaus