GodReflection: News Flash—We Inherited God’s DNA

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts – Isaiah 55:9

It shouldn’t be all that hard to attribute to Creator God the concept of thought. Did God design me to also possess a thought component and if so why?

One morning as I walked through a megacity in South America I came to a blocked sidewalk. The barricade was to protect me from an open utility trench. Since I am the curious type I had to look inside.

To my amazement, I saw thousands of individual wires wrapped to form an enormous cylinder.  Together, each one joined as a giant tube to provide electrical and communication service to millions.

I find Scripture to be somewhat like that.

Jointly, a bundle of countless themes wrap their way through the text to enhance and provide validity to God’s principle story line played out from Genesis to Revelation, “Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children” (Revelation 21:7).

One of those sacred text wires is the thought process of God. He conceives creation and then shares much of His thinking throughout Scripture.

I can’t recall anywhere in the Old or New Testament that records God specific declaration that He placed within me His thought module. However, I do read that He made me in His image.

An obvious characteristic of God’s image is His rational ability. He plans. He creates.

He reflects thoughts of disappointment at the consistency displayed by us humans in our failure to love Him in return. He thinks about how He will redeem to himself His most cherished creation. These are all big God thoughts.

An Old Testament music director catches the richness of God’s mind:

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand (Psalms 139:17-18).

So here I am a human of the 21^st Century with an identifiable piece of the Holy Genome. I can think. Pretty neat huh?

My guess is that God receives joy in seeing deer sprint across meadows, dogs playing and dolphins leaping. He must smile at His colorful array of birds darting about the planet. All of them operate from instinct. None possess the thinking gene.

Only with humankind did he share His ability to think.

The obvious question stands before me. Why was it important to God that He pass on to His human creation the gift of thought?

Why am I wire to ponder, meditate and reason?

Time after time I read in Holy Scripture variations and enhancement of God’s promise: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.”

That is one of the countless God thoughts that is higher than my thoughts.

I suspect God wants me to use the thought-gift received from His DNA to align my heart with His around His ultimate goal.

How is it possible that God wants me as an eternal guest in His Home? Certainly, I don’t understand why the Holy would think like that. Doesn’t He know about my stubbornness, my pride, my lack of patience, and the gazillion other ways I fall short of the mirror image of Jesus?

I’ve thought, pondered and meditated on the implications of life eternal in God’s home.

As I use His DNA thought gift I’m driven to conclude that I will trust His thoughts and have faith that He knows what both He and I are thinking.

Better still, I am thankful that He sees my faulty thinking through the cross lens of His Son.

Stay tuned.

Dr. Gary J. Sorrells

A GodReflection on Did God Design Me To Think?

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