For me, life just is

I made the statement in the previous article that for me, life just is. However, I believe that there is more to life than just being. We as humans are far more than thoughtless, mindless beings that exist by instincts alone. The animal world and all living lower species live by their limited inbred instincts. They can only make decisions based on their instincts and physical needs.

Unlike humans, animals cannot build a house, invent a car or fly to the moon. They cannot even take the smallest thing known to man and use it for their advantage. They would not even be able to give it a name let alone describe it to others. Life for an animal, insect or ameba is limited to their instincts and environment.

Man on the other hand can be anything he wants. He can invent things that will take him to the moon or across the galaxy, or beneath the sea without dying. Man is so resourceful that he can make and do anything he desires. But the one thing that man cannot make or invent is life. We believe that God created life. An individual who has the knowledge and know how to make anything he wants. Man has inherited this knowledge but unlike God, man has to discover it for himself; and what it is and how to use it. Man cannot just form a body out of the dust of the earth and breathe life into it. He cannot even make another living being without using an existing living part like DNA. Life seemingly is in the living parts.

Webster describes “life” as “The condition of living or the state of being alive”, “alive” as “showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive.” Life is also said to be consciousness. When a person becomes conscious of him/herself, they are alive. Again Webster says that consciousness is “An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation”. But, what is life?

When a man makes love to a woman, it is possible for them to make a new human being. They are actually using microscopic parts of themselves that has life in it already and when combined starts to divide and grow into another human being. The being produced is not an elephant, or a lion. It is not even a rabbit or squirrel or an ameba.

Is life just life? Just is? It seems so. If we can believe that God has life in himself, we can then believe that when he breathed into the formed dust, physical body, he breathed a small life force part of himself into that body. That is what gave life to the dust thing. A never-ending division of God life force, that is in all living things.

Life truly is a mystery, a mystery that can only be described by God. Life just is.