Genesis !: 26-28 tells us that we are made in the image of God. Jesus came to show us that by grace we can learn to see that we too are son of God or daughter of God. God desires no less than that we recognize our connection to Him and thus realize our own divinity as Jesus sought to show us.
Like God we have the potential for good and evil as all free creatures do. But God does not choose to ever express His potential for evil only for good. But only by understanding and being able to be evil do we understand what evil is. The coexistence of opposites is always necessary to be truly free. Giving into evil destroys freedom. Overcoming evil with good establishes freedom. So us having the potential for evil does not disqaulify us from looking to God and saying, “I am that that Thou art!”
Hebrews 11: 6 says, “He that comes unto God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of
those that diligently seek Him.” God rewards us by revealing to us that we are connected to Him and not separated from Him and that we are that which He is. When we believe in this unity with God we are empowered to say, “I am that which Thou art!”
Here is an example of this works. God is nourishing of all creation. The Bible, science, philosophy, great theologians from many traditions all agree that God or whatever you call the ultimate source of the universe is nourishing of all that is. Quantum physics calls this nourishing source the unified Field which they have discovered as an intelligent field that hold all existence together, integrating, correlating, nourishing all existence in every moment. Some physicists like Max Plank calls this Field the Divine matrix. Some say it is not only a field of intelligence but it is also conscious. But something or God nourishes everything, “from a tree, to the movement of stars and galaxies, to the migration of birds, to the movement of our own immune system, to the digestive process that is taking place inside us to the beating of our own heart. All this is nourished.” (Deepak Chopra, “Creating Affluence, page 88).
When we wake up to being truly in God’s image and that “we live, move and have our being in Him,” (Acts !7: 28), we can say, “I am that which Thou art. Thou art nourishing of all that is. I too am nourishing. I can nourish the health and longevity of my body by what I do and eat and how I think. I can nourish all whom I meet with love, friendship, peace and happiness. I can nourish nature by loving it, caring for it and respecting it. I can nourish all that I touch. I am that which Thou art. I am nourishing!”
The Lord Jesus who came to nourish our souls would appreciate this.
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