Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “Meeting Divinity With Contempt”.
Life on earth in all of its varieties comes in many shapes, sizes and configurations. From the tiny bacteria and single cell lifeforms to the giant grey and humpback whales and everything in between there is one thing we all have in common. None of us possess what can be characterized as attributes of the divine with one, and only one, exception. That lone exception is the animal man.
The biological features of the animal man are closely related and similar to many other animal species, especially of those we refer to as mammals and primates. But there is one important difference that separates man from all other animals. It is what I call the divine spark. It is the light of God that has been imparted to humanity that elevates us above every other creature and places us on a path to join the eternal Creator.
This light gives us awareness, creativity, speech, reflectiveness, a sense of good and evil, hands and feet and a body suited for divinity and so many others qualities and attributes no other animal has or can ever attain. This is no accident or evolutionary phenomena but an act of God and a birthright God has given to every human being.
God has given us this spark of divinity and it is left up to us to make use of it as the Creator intended or to treat it with contempt and misappropriate it to enhance and fulfill our animal passions and desires.
A birthright is both a privilege and a responsibility. The receiver of the birthright receives more than the others in their family. We, as humankind, have received more than any other species and creature on the planet because we possess divine attributes none of the rest have.
Secondly, we have a responsibility to behave in a way that is worthy of these attributes we have and use them for what is good and just and compassion toward all creatures, both human and nonhuman.
We demonstrate contempt for this birthright when we fail to acknowledge it, when we take it for granted, when we use it for selfish gain and desire, when we use it to hurt and harm others, and when we allow our animal instincts and passions drive our thoughts, decisions and actions.
Our daily prayer should be one of thanksgiving and appreciation to our Creator for making us animals with divine sparks. We should be able to look at every creature and see the wonderful blessing God has given to us that they can never have. It should make us all the more responsible for the power God has given us.
We should pray for the wisdom to exercise it properly and in a manner that is worthy and pleasing to the One who gave it to us. And according to His promise, if we rightly exercise these divine gifts and attributes, their will be more to follow including the one of immortality.
But it all depends on whether we exercise the proper and right reverence for giving us a piece of the divine or if we meet the divine gift with contempt by treating it as something we didn’t ask for, we could care less about and have no responsibility or accountability for possessing. You can hear the complete sermon by clicking the sermon title above.
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Pastor Jordan
