What is Man?
"What is man?”
reads an excerpt from the book The Measure of a Man, written by Martin
Luther King, Jr. Dr. King wrote, “There are some people, that believe ‘man is
little more than an animal’ and there are those ‘who would lift man almost to
the position of a God.” Shakespeare also
considered this question. In the play, Hamlet, the character says, “What a piece of work is a man, how
noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties…” This question about who man really
is has occupied mankind for many years.
Yet the Bible describes man as someone God made a little
lower than the angels and crowned man with glory and honor and
made man the rulers over the works of His hands (Psalm 8:3-8). The scripture also emphasized, “…you put
everything under their feet (Psalm 8:6). That is great news for all of us who
feel overwhelmed by the many challenges of our present age. Nothing can defeat us.
According to the Bible, we know what God thinks of us (Jeremiah
29:11). We know that He made us for great things and we know that we are even
made to sit in heavenly places with Him (Ephesians 2:6). Therefore we can
praise the Lord for what He has done for us and that we have a great
relationship with Him. We don’t have to
be depressed or downhearted or downcast today; we are made in His image and He
loves us (John 3:16).
Please comment below and share
with others how you learned a new perspective about who you were in God. You
can encourage others to do the same.
Psalm 8:3-8
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3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what
is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
5 You
have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and
honor.
6 You
made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their
feet:
7 all
flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild,
8 the
birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the
seas.
Jeremiah
29:11
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New International Version (NIV)
11 For I know
the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to
harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Ephesians
2:6
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6 And
God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in
Christ Jesus,
John 3:16
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New International Version (NIV)
16 For God so loved
the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life.
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