As human beings, we were created to contain his image (presence) and manifest his likeness, from a love – faith relationship, and the incarnation of Christ was reaffirmation of mankind’s identity, and purpose. The son of God did not take up residence in an animal, or an insect, but He took up residence in a human being, because human beings alone were created to contain divine life, and in containing the life of God, reveal that life from glory to glory (ever increasing Christ likeness). This is who we were created to be, and this is what we were created to do, therefore, without the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, human beings search for false identities, and live their lives unfulfilled because of surrendering to small purpose. Jesus did not come to annihilate fallen humanity; instead, he came to liberate, and elevate human beings to their original noble purpose, of being carriers, and revealer’s of the life and likeness of God. We were created to contain and manifest glory, and therefore, the new creation in Christ is restored to God’s original masterpiece. The word “glory” in the Old Testament carries the meaning of “weightiness, heavy,” and in the New Testament the word signifies “presence and revealed nature.” God’s presence, and his nature is a weighty thing, and you and I were created to be in union with, and steward such weightiness. Apart from Christ, no matter how much noise in the world that a human being makes, it is a small story that they have settled for, as they desperately search for, or give up the search, for true identity and purpose. Every Christian, because they are in Christ, are part of a weighty and BIG story.
Colossians 1:25 – 27 says, “(Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Colossians 3:3 – 4, “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is manifested, then you will be manifested with him in glory.”
2 Corinthians 3:18, “But we all with unveiled face beholding as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
No Christian should ever feel significant, or get lost in some journey trying to find themselves, or their purpose in life. Every Christian carries the weightiest identity, and destiny because we have been restored to our original true self as image bearers (glory containers) and to our true destiny, which is to manifest the true nature of God, as we allow Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, to live out His big story in and through us. It really does not matter what you do vocationally, but only WHO is doing it. The Who that does the what, whatever the what might be, is what makes the story of our lives such a glorious one.