The Miracle of New Life

Having followed closely the nine month birth process of our grandson Ethan, Paul who was born December 23, 2010, impressed upon me again the incredible miracle it is to bring new life into the world.

However, the process of new life did not just begin nine month ago, rather than it began three years ago, when my son David attended the annual Feast of Tabernacles in Schluchsee Germany. There he met a young lady - Sabrina, and there the Miracle of New Life had its actual beginning. This encounter of two people, male and female, let to an engagement one year later, and to marriage the following year in November of 2009. What was the driving force that made it happen? It was love! Love was the driving force that overcame a multitude of obstacles and brought two people together who then had the capacity to bring new life into existence.

Yes, bringing new life into existence is a miracle, a gift from God, in whose image man was made. God created only one human being – Adam. From Adam God made Eve. Adam and Eve were given the capacity to reproduce themselves through procreation resulting in their children Cain and Abel, and their progeny, down to you and me, and to our grandson Ethan.

This process of procreation, which results in new physical life, is the corner stone of the human family, driven by love, resulting in an ever expanding humanity (now appr. 6.9 billion). Where will it end and what is the purpose of it all? From the biblical record we learn that the physical is but the beginning, the example and precursor of that which is to come – the spiritual.

The physical is temporary, the spiritual is eternal. The physical is sinful, the spiritual is sinless. The purpose of human life is to progress from the physical to the spiritual. Male and female, human love, the process of physical procreation, the ever expanding human family, where all created to teach us godly love, the process of spiritual procreation for the ever expanding Family of God.

And so we learn that God who is our perfect example, chose for Himself a wife, the slave nation Israel, and entered into a marriage covenant with her. 1500 years later God chose the Israelite woman Mary to carry and give birth to His first born son whom He named Jesus. It is a spiritual love story, beyond our full comprehension. The excitement and joy our son and his wife experienced, having produced new life – their firstborn son Ethan, is something all parents share when bringing new life into existence. God Almighty is no exception. Proudly He proclaimed: “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” Yes, Jesus was born as the son of man for a specific purpose, to atone for the sins of the world, but He was also born as our example to show us the way of how to become a child of God, of how to become a spirit God being after the image of our Father via a resurrection from the dead.

Let us not diminish the miracle of NEW life, whether the first born of man or the first born of God with the mythological Roman Catholic, Trinitarian teaching of existence before birth. Let us live and experience the gift of love not only physically, but in its full spiritual dimension when the marriage of the lamb to His bride, the Church of God, will find its climax in perfect godly love for all eternity.