A Call To Be

There was no question with God as there was for the agonising Hamlet.

There was the call to be.

As the culmination of His creation reflecting Him in all He was. His first call to humanity was to be fruitful. Being fruitful in a very real way was continuing to be who He created humanity to be. Fruit of God-reflecting humanity is more of the reflection of God on the earth. It’s not primarily about the doing, it is about the being.

We keep being who He created us to be and there the fruit is. Just as an apple tree’s fruit was an apple that within it bore the seed of more apple trees, so the fruit of His reflection on the earth was an image bearer who would bear His image and in that would further produce more of the image being borne. This is why the greatest tragedy in human existence is never really learning what it is to be.

Neither can we learn what it is to be, until we return to the caller whose image we are called to reflect.

The capacity to do is because of what we’re called to be and when that is activated by reconnecting with the Creator then all we do brings glory back to Him.

Humanity is marked with agonising over the question of whether to be or not to be and what to be if you’re going to be. Yet rather than wrangling over those self-indulgent and self-absorbed approaches to the purpose to live there is a liberating alternative.

Before any other call in the human existence, God give the call to be.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden