It’s a snowflake thing. You know, where we cut out one part, and the rest all match exactly. It’s the repetitiveness that gives the paper snowflake its fascinating aura.
Snip at a folded piece of paper to create a series of paper dolls, all attached hand in hand, and it’s the same. We marvel at what we’ve done, not so much because it’s beautiful, but more because so few snips can create such an astounding masterpiece of intricacy.
God’s plan is to make us into paper dolls for him. Yes, we read that right, paper dolls. That doesn’t mean we’re weak, or that our personalities disappear. Rather, it means we are imprinted with the image of our maker, we continually hold hands, and the world is astounded at the intricacy of God’s ornate design.
Genesis 1:27 unfolds God’s paper dolls, and we see ourselves springing forth from his hand:
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
1 John 4:1 warns us about fake paper dolls:
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.”
2 Peter 1:2-4 says that keeping our hands attached is the strength in our chain of dolls:
“May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.”
Hebrews 2:17 reveals that Jesus holds hands with the rest of us, imparting his strength unto us:
“Therefore [Jesus] had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.”
Colossians 2:8 cautions that to be folded any other way than Jesus’ way is to lose the imprint of Christ:
“See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”
We are as individual as can be in our humanity, but it’s our uniformity in Christ that gives us our strength in him. When we hold hands with the strongest believers among us, we will draw strength from them, and we will prevail against the evil one.
Our strength comes from Christ, but it flows through the hands of our fellow Christians.
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