Through the centuries, man has craved divinity. Man has always wanted to be like God, or to be a god. It started with the deception of Eve. Adam & Eve were already like God (Genesis 1:26), but the serpent said to her: eat & you will be like God, knowing good & evil (Genesis 3:5). They ate, they became like God in the sense of knowing good & evil (Genesis 3:22), but they lost the very thing that actually made them like God in the first place (His nature).
From that day forward, there has been something in man, a knowing: "I am meant to be more". Different men have devised different ways of becoming "more"; becoming gods. They tried to make an everlasting name for themselves by spectacular achievements (Genesis 11). Some attained great wealth, power & influence & sought to immortalise either their names or themselves. Some men killed other men & drank their blood; others subjugated fellow men (Judges 1:7) & often demanded worship or worship-like postures & expressions from them (Genesis 41:43 & Esther 3:2-5). Some, through research, have sought to use science & technology to achieve those very goals.
There's another category of men that have sought things such as "the fountain of youth", "the secret of life"; "the center of the universe" or "the hub of creation", often out of desire for immortality, great power or great wealth. Others have done everything they thought could work to give them powers beyond the natural. In recent years, the Eastern religions have gained ground in the Western world. Why? There's a promise of divinity, the introduction of a most fantastic thought: that divinity dwells within every man & can be nurtured & activated through transcendental meditation. It simply speaks to a certain deep-rooted desire in the human heart. From Egyptian Pharoahs to Japanese & Incan emperors to American serial killers and leaders of various cults or religious sects, men through history have fancied themselves gods or God.
Of all these men, not a single human being has attained divinity or even immortality. But in A. D. 30, a Jew named Jesus came on the scene and began to declare himself God (John 10:33). Several times, the Jews were ready to stone him, but they never could. Sometimes, he hid himself supernaturally, sometimes his words made them unable to. At other times, he simply walked away. This same man kept saying that it was possible for men to be born of God, born from above just as He was (John 3:3&5). He began to say that by simply believing in him, men could have eternal life (John 3:16). He went on to say the strangest thing:
"If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have eternal life in you. If you don't, you haven't!" (John 6:53&54 paraphrased)
This time, the Jews were deeply offended & confused & many who had been following him turned back. It seemed like he had simply gone off the deep end. But those who stayed with him later understood (and experienced) exactly what he was talking about (John 6:63, 1:1 & 1John 1:1). While he was NOT introducing to the Jews the cannibalism that men through the ages practised in trying to attain divinity, he sure WAS painting a picture such people could relate to: "you can eat & drink all the blood & flesh you want to, but if you haven't had my own (by believing my words), you don't have the divine life!"
This life was to be like a never-drying wellspring of water within them. This life was a different kind from that life by which they had been existing before he came. This was a superior life, a higher life, THE DIVINE LIFE. This was divinity at their doorstep. What men have sought through the ages, what men have done all sorts of things to attain or at least mimic; readily available at their doorstep, readily available at YOUR doorstep. According to 1John 5:11&12, this is the testimony of God: He has given us eternal life (ZOE: the divine life & nature, what makes God God), and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has that life. He who does not have the Son does not have that life, period!
Do you have the Son? No? Then you don't have eternal life. It really is very simple. Do you believe that God has raised Jesus from the dead? Then take a moment right now & confess Jesus as your LORD, receive the life He so freely offers. Have you done that? Now I can speak to you as to every other believer.....
You are divine in origin & nature
You are heavenly, born from above
You are not of this world, realm & plane
You are divine
You are a god, just like God
You have been born of God, not just adopted
You are a child of God, you are God-class, God-kind
Don't look at your body or soul, look at your spirit, the real you!
Look at Jesus, look at the Father!
Look in the Word for that is your mirror!
You are just like God, you can function like Him by His Spirit & Word in you
The only thing you are not is God Himself (the Father, Son & Spirit)
Yet you are a son, just like the Son
Where the Father & Son are seated, you are seated
By the Word & Spirit of God
Everything that God is, you are
Everything that God has, you have
Everything that God can do, you can do
That is glory!
This is divinity!
Light dawns!
