I’ll be doing a post per month throughout 2022 about the names of God. This month is Elohim, the God Who Created Us. The One who knit us together with His own hands and purposefully placed us in the wombs of our mothers. It’s a level of intimacy that no one else has access to.
No one will ever be able to understand us on the level to which God has created us. People try, and they do want to understand us, but they are limited by their life experiences and the lens they’ve created in which they interpret the world around them. Only Elohim, our Creator, has access, knowledge, insight, forethought, and understanding to who we are and who we were created to be.
The root of our internal struggle is between our earthly existence (who we are) and our spiritual (wo)man (who we were created to be). Our spiritual life is eternal, and part of God’s design is that our spirits instinctively search for home, the presence of God.
Think “Garden of Eden.” Before Eve bit the forbidden fruit, we walked in the full expression of who we were created to be. And we knew it well because we enjoyed daily walks, conversation, and intimacy with God. His presence illuminated our worth and gave proof of our identity. Because we spent time with Elohim, discovering Him and His value system, we gained understanding of who He was and therefore who we were in Him.
Once Eve’s desire to be like God overtook her, she used her gift of choice to defy God’s safety net that He had in place, and she ate from the forbidden tree. Sin broke direct, face-to-face communion with God.
Part of that fallout is that, without direct communion with God, we are left to figure things out on our own, dying in our sin and limited by temporal things. Our spirit (wo)man waits to be reunited with Elohim, and it searches everywhere and everything until it finds home again. In the meantime, we are led by the world’s value system, and we make decisions and goals based on our own ways of understanding, our wants, jealousy, envy, anxiety, fear, loneliness, etc.
Apart from Elohim, it is not possible for us to walk in the full expression of who we were created to be. Without restitution for our sin that has separated us from Him, we are left to struggle with who we are in our broken, decaying humanness.
We no longer have access to the Garden of Eden, but Elohim is the God of restoration. Our dirt in His hands is simply new life in the making. Despite our sin, Elohim has provided a way for us to once again discover Him, share intimate moments, and learn to walk in the unique way He created each of us. And we don’t have to wait until heaven to understand what that looks and feels like.
Restored intimacy with our Creator is found in the sinless payment for our debt through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, the Christ. Accepting what Christ did on the cross and making it personal to you is the Door, Jesus Christ, that brings you into direct conversation with God. We’ll still have to wait for face-to-face communion in heaven, but there’s no delay in moving from salvation into intimacy with Elohim.
The cross, worship, salvation, songs, prayers, and reading your Bible are all for the purpose of ushering you into the presence of God and to create moments of intimacy as you spend time in His presence.
Elohim knows the number of hairs on our head be it before you brush your hair or after each time you do. We are fearfully and wonderfully made from the cellular level to our skills and passions and spiritual lives, as well as our personal fleshly qualities and so much more—all the multi-faceted ways God uses to make us unique expressions of love, creativity, wisdom, knowledge, discernment, understanding, courage, hope, justice … just to name a few qualities.
Each person is an intended expression of God’s majesty and intimacy. Each facet of who we are reveals something about God’s character and His heart for His beloved children. You look just like your Father, Elohim.
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These questions are in no way a substitute for healthcare professionals or any level of professional counseling. I’m an advocate for taking care of oneself mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. These questions reflect my heart, NOT my profession.
This questionnaire is an opportunity to journal your thoughts and feelings. It can serve as a launching pad on which to evaluate your heart condition as you understand it. My hope is that you will take the truths you discover about yourself and hold them up to the Light to evaluate them against who God says you are.
- How did God make you unique?
- With regard to God’s unique design in you, what are some of the qualities and/or characteristics He has created in you?
Use God’s Word to take control over the traumas in your life. Whenever you feel terrorized by your thoughts take them captive by replacing them with the truth of God’s promises in His Word.
Here is a scripture for you to print, cut and carry with you and/or post in places where you will see it often. Ground yourself in God’s truths not Satan’s attacks. Encourage your heart and mind every time you are reminded of His great love for YOU!
If you have not made what Christ did on the cross personal to you, then take a moment to acknowledge Christ’s work on the cross. Repentance leads to salvation, and salvation opens up direct access to Elohim. Just like any relationship that grows in intimacy, it takes spending purposeful time together.
If you want to discover the full expression of who you were created to be, say this prayer with me, and then move closer to God by pursuing His presence.
Father God, I believe that You sent Your Son Jesus to die in my place. He paid the debt for my sin that I could not pay. Thank You that, through the blood of Jesus, I’m forgiven and You have made it possible for me to be reunited with You. As best as I know how I invite you into my heart and I invite you to reveal Yourself to me. I look forward to discovering Your heart for me and for You to awaken my spirit and reveal to me who You created me to be. Amen.
