Sunday, March 5, 2017

Ancestry

Many, many people are interested in their history and their lineage.  We love to know where we come from--what our ancestors were like.  All of us come from strong stock that made it through difficult environments and passed on their seed to us.  We have become survivors because we come from survivors.  What were their lives like?  What did they live through?  And what kind of mix of people are we?  We are blends of nations and cultures, height and weights.  We are in infusion of generations of talents, heart breaks, victories, loves, comforts, and miseries.  But what if we go deeper.

We are daughters of Eve and sons of Adam.  True enough.  We have an inherent nature bent toward selfishness, violence, and fear.  We are all fallen from the time of Adam and Eve--it is our lineage of sin and we are powerless against it.  It controls our lives from the moment we are born.

However, there is an even deeper and more real nature that we often overlook.  We get so focused on what we cannot do and the struggles of life that we forget that our Father is actually Adam's father.   We were created by God.  Our Father is really our true ancestor and it is this heritage that runs deeper in our souls then the sin that we are born into.

As we sin we build up layers between ourselves and our true divine heritage--the "very good" we were made to be.  Jesus, God himself, bridges this gap for us--giving us access again to this ancient ancestry--the primordial soup of holiness into which we were introduced.  It is our true nature of friendship with the divine that beckons us to return and Jesus frees us to be again our true selves and not the false sin self.  What a lineage we have.

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