Have You Got a Chunk of God?

                         Imagine you woke up one morning to discover that God had just placed a chunk of Himself inside you.  What would be your expectations?  That you would be invincible, omnipotent, capable of leaping tall buildings in a single bound!!  Wait, that was Superman.  But now you could be more than a Superman!   

                                                   Look and see!

See that elderly man suffering from dementia?  He has a chunk of God inside him.

See that obnoxious bully making trouble on the playground?  He too has a chunk of God. 

                                                And so do you!      

It’s right there in the story of the Creation.   The first human beings in Genesis.  After God created Adam, He “blew into his nostrils the breath of life.” So, God implanted a sample of Himself into all human beings.  So, is that the end of God’s chunk?  Did it all end at the beginning? 

Because God is perfect in all aspects, we are given only a sample of his essence.

So, when the waiter brings you a sip of wine from the bottle, you aren’t getting the whole thing but with one sample you’ve tasted all of it! So too, with that one God chunk/breath/ sample inside you, you’ve got all of Him.  God uploaded the essence of His Being into you as a human.  Just as He did to Adam. 

But hey, if you suffer pain and get in trouble, in what way is this chunk inside you? 

He has given us the power of choosing. He has given us mores and values and rules and desires and hopes and dreams. He has placed us in an imperfect world where bad things do happen to good people.

                                       All this comes from Him.
But what about the Bad Guys…..don’t they have that chunk of God?

Of course, but they have chosen to ignore it or never realized the chunk in the first place.  Helping those who have ignored the neshamah (Hebrew for spirit) becomes the work to those of us who realize the reality of that little piece of God within us.  It’s not an easy task but this is what God desires of us.  

However, when we really look around us and let go of our own egos in order to bring about the reality of God to others, we now read the Gospels with the realization that Jeshua was distilling this God chunk into His disciples and now into us.

We are only mere humans but what a gift we have!  It’s God’s giving us a piece of Himself. 

            It’s that chunk of God that gives us hope and true peace.