We are wired for significance – the image of God
What could possibly be the source of all this energy, all this desire, all this frenzied search for a place of purpose and significance? The image of God. E. Stanley Jones, the Methodist evangelist and friend of Mahatma Ghandi so eloquently put it:
"Three writers, all important and prominent - John, Paul and the author of Hebrews -all say in varying terminology that man and nature and the whole universe were made by Christ and for Christ, that a destiny is therefore written into the structure of new things, and that structure and that destiny is a Christian destiny. Whom he did "predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Rom. 8:29) We are destined by our makeup to be made into his image. When we work in his way we work well; when we work in some other way we work our own ruin.
Can anything more important and more consequential be said about human nature and human destiny? I f so, I do not know of it, nor have I heard of it. It sounds too good to be true, but it is too good not to be true."
According to the original Owner's Manual for human beings, the Bible, it is clearly stated that God deliberately made us in the same class of beings as himself, able to understand right from wrong, able to communicate and express thoughts, able to be creative in many facets, and able to express love and be loved. God is the one who gave us His desire to express ourselves in actions of creativity, love, and passion. He is the one that said "Go ahead, whatever you think of to do, go for it. Fill the whole Earth with the signs and evidences of the image of God in man. Fill the earth with art, music, families, nations, and swimming pools. Write code, write novels, write constitutions, and live according to this constant divine push to live, love, and show forth the fruits of your brilliant mind, heart and soul. And everywhere you do this you are showing forth the Glory of God, as well as the ingenuity of man.
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