When Asked this question, among the most popular answers, we have:
– I am James, I am Jane,…
– I am a Rwandese, an American, A kenyan, An European,…
– I am a black man, a white man, …
– I am a christian, I am boudhist, I am a musulman,…
But are those answers really define who you are? Does your name define who you are? – Today if you change your name, are you changing who you are? Does the color of skin define who you really are? – God forbids, but today if you are burnt 100%, will you be someone else? Does your religion define who you really are? -Tell me, if you change your religious or political affiliation, will you have a chance to change who you are? Does your nationality tells you who you really are? – There are many people who have two nationalities, who do you think they are then?
Without any religious affiliation and with the help of the bible, I would like you and I have a conversation if I may say .
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27.
I searched for the definition of image and I found that image means a representation, the likeness or similitude of any person or thing. Then I remembered one thing, I went to the mirror and looked into, I saw myself in the mirror or as I would say I saw my image in the mirror. Someone else would have said that my image looks fat or skinny but still for me I was looking at myself. I could have brought many mirrors and they could have reflected many images of myself but still I would have said those are the images of myself. It would have happened for other people to find some physical differences between my many images of myself but still they are all my images, in other words they are all me. If I had legs, all my images would have had legs too, if I had jumped, my images would have jumped with me, whatever I would have done, my images would have done too. So I could say my images are just an extension of myself. I could look into the mirror, see my reflection and say: “ that’s me”, and that would be true because me and my image are one. Probably even one of my images would have looked at me and said I was him.
Then If God created you in his image, after his likeness, can you guess you are!!! You are his image, I am His image, we are all his images though many mirrors (our physical bodies). When God sees each one of us, He sees Himself. We are all his images, we are all ONE and We are all GOD, we are all The Source, we are all The Universe.
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
1 Corinthians 3:16
Again I searched the definition of temple in the dictionary and found that temple means a building where people gathers together for worshiping or praying. Basically what makes that building to be a temple is not how beautiful it is or how big it is but the gathering of people.
Imagine now you being a building in which God/The Universe/The Source/ dwells, that is what being God’s temple truly means. The very God you and I are trying to search is within each of us. We are more that the building, We are basically God living/dwelling in that building.
You think it is blasphemy, then what about this one:
“I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High”
Psalm 82: 6
If you read the book of John in chapter 10, they tried to stone Jesus by accusing him of pretending to be God but he just reminded them of the same law they said they believed.
Most of us(former Christians, Christians,…) we were taught that Heaven is the dwelling place of God. And for me, I do really believe that the kingdom of Heaven is the dwelling place of God. But Where is that place located exactly? (Up in the sky, NASA would have told us at least,… lol). Anyway most of us, when we think about heaven, God’s dwelling place, we think about abundance of everything we desire; abundance of love, happiness, joy, health, wealth,…
“… the kingdom of heaven is within you”
Luke 17:21
Think about it for a few minutes: – You are the image of God, – You are God’s temple , – You are God, – the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. Then think again about your names, skin colors, your nationalities, your whatever. WHO ARE YOU?
You are GOD, you are the source of everything, you are the Universe, you are the Perfection, you are the Beauty, you are the abundance, you are already everything you are looking for.
“In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and You in me, and I in you”
John 14:20