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In a discussion yesterday, a revelation came to me: There are no special human beings, or people who are created more superior than others. We’re all made in the image of God (Genesis 1: 26, 27), and are a unique specie. We are, each one of us, fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139). No exception.
Why then do we think otherwise? Psychologists have performed many analytical researches, studying human behavior and classifying us into different personality types. These classifications have sought to label people and determine what they can or cannot do. Or what they’re more fitted for, and what they shouldn’t even aspire to. These studies have made their ways into schools, organizations, and societies. They have shaped how we are placed in the spectra of these societal communities.
In the temporal, there are things that shape who we become in later years. These are: the way we’re brought up, influences in the home, what we’re exposed to in life, and our own self-determination and will. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6). This holds true for Christian upbringing and otherwise.
Keying into this normal belief in totality and placing these labels on our foreheads can be quite dangerous as many people go on to live lives well below their aspirations and capabilities because they have placed themselves in an imagined box that has imagined boundaries – boxes and boundaries that have been determined by fellow humans.
There is another normal. This other normal says: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Consider these truths:
- We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us? (Philippians 4:13)
- He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40: 29 – 31))
- And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10: 17 – 19)
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