"In Our Likeness"

Something is running in and through my consciousness lately. About people. About humanity. 

This something is about how much I am becoming intrigue (of curiosity or interest of unusual, new, or otherwise fascinating or compelling qualities) of human— how they move, live and have their being.

The more divine encounters to get in touch with people, the stronger does the compassion intertwined with, and submissive to, this God-given passion.

Yet I would never expect it to be all smooth-sailing. Such as one thing, there are surely people could never understand why I am giving myself such time for the understanding of humanity.

There was once an encounter with an intellectual, spiritual person, and he just uttered hastily during our short, passing conversation that I am just taking too much pride with the knowledge. It may not be a big of a deal to him when he said that but it is something that I still carry these days. As much as how I want to clarify to him what it really meant to me, he did not lend me his ear. Lest I parted from him in a careful contemplation. His words echoed in my head as I walked away from him. It may disguise into a form of discouragement but  it have eventually procured to be a challenge with purpose under heaven. 

Genesis 1:26, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

We are a body and a soul. Just as how we have accepted Biology in our daily life and makes it a channel to understand and preserve His “good” creations of the human body, so does Psychology presents an understanding of the human mental processes and behavior. How God had fearfully and wonderfully intricate all the physical parts of our body is equally how He fearfully and wonderfully fashioned our soul-- our emotions, our traits, our characteristics…our personality. Complex, yet fearfully and wonderfully beautiful!

"I WILL PRAISE THEE; FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: MARVELLOUS ARE THY WORKS; AND THAT MY SOUL KNOWETH RIGHT WELL’ (PSALM 139:14).

The basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! The knowledge and understanding of His creations enlightens me to truly appreciate the Creator. It will be an instrument pointing me to a more strengthened adoration of God Himself— just as how, after He made them, He beautifully captured to describe them as “It was good.” 

I write in the light of a hope that we, people, will keep our hearts and minds open to the diversity of God wherever and whatever field God has placed each of us. In a highly regimented, regulated, restrictive environment, every course field can frustrate, oppress, and enslave-- unless one holds his/her purpose uppermost in mind and in heart. By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, I have always been able to see what the eyes as such can't see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. In everything, I graciously see God preeminent. 

"Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."(JOHN 1:3-4).