Who am I? Why am I here?

Who am I? Why am I here?  Almost all of us ask ourselves these questions at one time or another in our lives.  That is especially true now that we live in a time when chaos and confusion seem to be all around us. The desire for meaning and purpose is universal. Yet we strive to "live our best life. A common rational in not meeting the ideal is, "Well, I am only human." Questions you might also ask are what is the ideal human and what part of our humanity keeps us from attaining it?  

One of the principles of Biblical interpretation is when you want to know the true sense of a term or a concept, you look at the first time it is found and see its context. So let us look at the original model of a human created by God and placed in the garden.  God said, "Let us make man (male and female)in our own image and likeness." Gen.1: 26,27  The context of "image" can be translated character, and the context of "likeness" translated to look similar or reflect the image as in a mirror.  So, God made us to have his character and reflect his likeness.

God wanted family that would be like him and love him.  He placed man in the earth to rule over it and to steward or care for it. 

  • To take dominion or rule over it as the Lord himself would do. -much like the modern day ambassadors sent into foreign country to do the Kings business with the king's full authority to carry it out. 
  • To steward or care for it; to make it prosper to its fullest. 
Because Adam and Eve had the image (character) of the Lord they could rightly handle the power and authority the Lord had given them. 

God also said to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Hab. 2:14 says,  "the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea." All creation would see the image and likeness of God himself and would respond and be fruitful.

Satan came and deceived Adam into relinquishing allegiance to God and  his authority to rule.  He came under Satan's rule whose nature was to steal, kill and destroy.  John 10:10  Therefore Adam and everything under his charge would die because of the separation from God. 

We can't fully know the fullness of who Adam and Eve were and how they functioned because we only see man and the world after Adam's fall and really after the flood. But God did give us a human model in Jesus to help us see and understand who Adam was and what was his purpose. 

Jesus is called the Last Adam. He came to restore what was lost and to live the life as it was meant to be. 

  • " For in Him all the fullness of Deity (the Godhead) dwells in bodily form [completely expressing the divine essence of God]." Col.2:9-AMP
  • So it is written [in Scripture], “The first man, Adam, became a living soul (an individual); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit [restoring the dead to life]." 1Cor. 15:45- AMP 
  • "The Son is the radiance and only expression of the glory of [our awesome] God [reflecting God’s Shekinah glory, the Light-being, the brilliant light of the divine], and the exact representation and perfect imprint of His [Father’s] essence, and upholding and maintaining and propelling all things [the entire physical and spiritual universe] by His powerful word [carrying the universe along to its predetermined goal]" Heb 1:3-AMP
  • The last Adam's (Jesus's) nature and job description is a picture of the first Adam's Image and likeness. "..Jesus said to him, 'Have I been with you for so long a time, and you do not know Me yet, Philip, nor recognize clearly who I am? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?  Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you I do not say on My own initiative or authority, but the Father, abiding continually in Me, does His works [His attesting miracles and acts of power]. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe [Me] because of the [very] works themselves [which you have witnessed]. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, anyone who believes in Me [as Savior] will also do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these [in extent and outreach], because I am going to the Father.' " John 14:9b-12-AMP

Questions to consider:
  • How do I live like the man(woman) created in the garden?
  • How can I become like the second Adam?

We will explore the answers to both of questions in depth in the next Kingdomviews blog.


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