Christian Living

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Human Nature

We have had human nature since the inception of man in the earth. Humans have a nature that s inconsistent with the way they were created. There are frailties in the inherent character of basic constitution of a person or thing. Man’s disposition and temperament falls below God’s guidelines written in His Word. The controlling factor that God once had over man is of another force now. Nature is the inner force or the sum of each force in an individual. Man is human and they have characteristics that are distinguished by fundamental or essential differences. Human means human kind’s original or natural condition.

Man is a natural being that nature has provided for since creation. Man existed in nature shared with animals, trees and everything else God created. They had a relationship with God like nothing else that was created. But by human nature men failed to obey and was run out of the occupied space they called home; Eden. Man was created and styled like a tree but higher in rank than any animal or thing. Man’s most prized possession in the Garden was the woman that God took out of him and gave him. He laid the woman beside Adam and she became his wife; a helpmeet beside him. They were to multiply and be fruitful replenishing the earth. They were made to make more of themselves; being earthen beings. Essentially God first made them in his image. He created them spirit beings, but once that dirt was applied to them they had eyes full of the beauty of nature around them. And when Satan saw this he used it to his advantage. Satan saw the opportunity where he would beguile Eve and deceive Adam in the process.

We today are deceived by things in the earth because of its beauty. As Eve stood gazing at the tree which held the most beautiful fruit, wondered why God did not want them to eat of it. Satan having the inside scoop in heaven (as he had previously lived there and knew the mind of God) used what he knew to beguile Eve. Genesis 3:1, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden as God said to you? Eve answered saying we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but now she tells Satan what God had told them. She kept talking until he got out of her what he wanted to deceive Adam. Adam was deceived when Eve ate the fruit and nothing happened as God had said would happen. He then allowed Eve to get him to partake of the forbidden fruit also. When Adam ate the fruit fed to him by his wife Eve, things began to spin out of control. Maybe the earth stopped; there was no motion. They had lost their covering and the evidence of their actions was before them. There they were stripped of their innocence. The human nature was birth forth in the earth in its fullness as well as sin. So now it’s just human nature to sin and disobey God laws.

Man’s problem is they do not count up the cost of their inquisitiveness. They did not see, question, or examine to see what God says about what to do. But then they already had instructions of what not to do. How many times do we get in trouble because we don’t do things Gods way? Man has to see to believe. Now things occur in life in conformity with the ordinary course of nature, not marvelous or super naturally. Man formulates by human reason alone rather than revelation. They contemplate rather to sin or not sin. In the beginning sin was not an option because man possessed a higher quality of human nature that had not been tested yet. Now we cultivate our behaviors that will not grow without human care. Spiritual enlightenment was not an option but now it is because of our human nature to sin.

So many today is growing without human care needed for them to turn out right. It’s just human nature now for children to have babies when they are babies themself. It was never meant for man to divorce his wife, but it is now. Mankind being in a state of nature without spiritual enlightenment is one not regenerated. Many people live in or as if in a state of nature untouched by the influence of civilization and society. There is no real existence although they have a physical body as contrasted with one that is spiritual, intellectual, or fictitious. We can relate to one another in the physical sense of nature. In this time we live in we still though fully advanced in education and the Word of God fall short of the norm. If man will choose to go back to their original state of sanctity in this world they would not be so opposing to the spiritual world. God is true to nature and as much as be in us we should desire to be like God as close to Him as possible.

Man’s closely resembles God; yet they lack artificiality and self-consciousness. We are ingenuous which implies an inability to disguise or conceal one’s feelings or intentions. Children possess ingenuous enthusiasm because they are naïve which suggests lack of worldly wisdom often connoting credulousness and unchecked innocence. We are to be unsophisticated which implies a lack of experience and training necessary for social ease and adroitness. Artless suggests a naturalness resulting from unawareness of the effect one is producing on others. God’s people are more than just regular, they are special. We are born without the usual powers of reason and understanding for this is learned behavior. A natural have skills, talents, and abilities that they are born with and needs proper attention that the person can with all that is within them nourish them and grow. As the people of God with all of our natural abilities have a great chance at success in whatever we do.

Our human nature has been nourished to bring out the best inside of us for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We must educate ourselves in the Word of God both heard and studied if we are to succeed and not be mediocre in this world. Success is God’s will. God is a Spirit and man is dominated by the appetites of this world which causes man to be deprived of the Spirit of God. A sinful appetite drives God away. Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom. Why would we run halfway and turn back to sin? There is a way that seem right to man, loving pleasure is natural for a man and that’s what we call human nature. Human nature goes against the grain of God. Many things in this life increases vanity. A feast is made for laughter. When we come into the presence of God it should be with praise and thanksgiving.

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