What Is Human Nature?

There is a difference between human and adamic nature. We are human and were created human but we received the adamic nature when Adam sinned. As humans, we have the right to accept the covenants God has made for us. These covenants are the means to overcoming the adamic nature. Colossians 1:21-23 (NASB) 21And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--23if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

This passage shows the covenant work of God and what is expected by God of us as a covenant response. This also leads me to a very important truth regarding us as humans.

Last night I was awake for several hours as I prayed and meditated on His Word. I felt to repent of something that has bothered me somewhat. As much as I love the Word of God, I get rather bored in some Bible studies. I was convinced this was my fault and I was confessing this to the Lord when the Spirit spoke very clearly to me that the problem lay in not discerning the essence of the Scriptures. As I knocked on this word, this amazing revelation was in my spirit. We as humans do not perceive the limitation God has put on all created things. The essence of the Scriptures is not a historical recording of events but an unveiling of human limitation and the very real truth God is not limited but is limitless and dwells in eternity and, therefore, is not limited by time. Time was created for man who dwells in this limitation. Astronauts take their calenders and watches with them into space as they are still limited by time.

There are physical limitations, limitations of spirit, limitations on celestial beings, limitations on every created thing for all will know the end of all "things" as God establishes a new order. This limitation existed in the Garden of Eden but was a blessed time of being taught by God. Adam knew he was limited in knowledge and knew God as the Awesome One Who fellowshipped with him and led him into understanding and knowledge. The temptation to Eve was taking control over the attaining of knowledge. When Adam sinned, the knowledge of that limitation disappeared and he began to trust in the knowledge he attained through experience and his own opinions. This dangerous reliance on our own opinion for knowledge is the basis of following false gods. While Satan is the author of religion, man's imagination cements him to the concept of false worship. We begin to think of ourselves in wrong ways because we do not have a true understanding of the limitation placed on us as human beings. We judge ourselves wrongly. We condemn ourselves wrongly. We judge others and we judge God because we do not understand the limitation on us.

Men have a limitation on them as well as women. Both have human limitation but there is another limitation that we need to understand when judging the opposite sex. Man is not complete without a wife and the wife must understand she is as the church that must rely wholly on the Lord as the Head of the Church, with respect and reverance to Him. When we realize we are limited with a purpose, we begin to rely on God for guidance. We begin to lean on Him and not on our own resources.

Jesus said that IF we abide in Him and His Word abides in us, we may ask..... What does that mean to you? Without knowing how limited you are, you cannot know how vital it is to abide in Him. It no longer is a nice saying but an absolute necessity. His word in you becomes a flow of His unlimited Life flowing in you and you abiding in Him so His strength surrounds you. Why do we need to know our limitation? When we know our need and turn to the Lord, He is able to teach us His ways and manifest Himself to us and work within us. Paul came to this realization when he saw his own weakness. II Corinthians 12:9-10 (NASB)9And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Colossians 1:11-10 (NLT) 9And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

This is the reason all created things have limitation. In covenant, God is able to work in those who respond to Him and create His image in them. Only as you release your weakness to God is He free to work His strength in you. Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me." We will be set free of limitation when we receive our resurrected body, fashioned after His glorious Body. Jesus shed His limited time in this realm through the death on the cross, but before He did, He declared it is finished. The finished work means a finish of limitation. Man in God's image will know no limitation to do God's will. Even now, if we move through covenant as Jesus did, filled with the Holy Spirit, there is no limitation to do His will.