Today, the retrospection began with the phrase, "You're an introvert; you're predisposed to hating people." And, as scheduled, ended with the conclusion that I've been wrong enough to warrant a "how dare I".
I've been accused of selfishly hating humans in general quite a bit. Human and yet at odds with humanity, yep, that's me. Even this past week, it seems like everyone has noted how much I hate people and avoid them. And I think that accusation has happened partly due to a self-proclamation. In a lot of ways, I've freely admitted my distaste for humanity. The selfishness, the complexities, the intrusions, the complications, the things I can't change: sometimes people are just too much.
But what about the heightened sense of arrogance that is woven through that mindset? How dare I casually deem some of God's creation as undeserving of my time? How dare I only have understanding for myself? How dare I view people as worth God's time, yet not mine? To ignore treasured children of God because they frustrate me, to devalue the meaning that comes through the sanctity of life: that is the pinnacle of arrogance, and that has been me.
How dare I?
Especially when only a few things can be deemed as having sanctity. And "sanctity" itself is not a word like any other in the English language; its meaning is unique. It has no comparable synonyms. It means a pure, holy, and sacred recognition which would be wrong to dismantle. But I believe the ultimate definition of "sanctity" is "something explicitly blessed and willed by God." That is why a marriage of two believers is one of sanctity. Marriage is a union of two of God's creations, his children, breathed in his own image and likeness. And the love in it is one birthed by God and exemplified through Christ. In that is the sanctity of marriage. But the sanctity of human life is above that, even.
Human life is so indisputably sanctified because each one sees existence due to the will and purposes of God. And sure, so is everything else. But not everything willed by God is created in his image, created with capabilities of knowing and glorifying his character. That capability is specific to human life. Each human life is born with purpose, with a capacity for emotion, ministry, knowing and experiencing God, expanding their soul. Lives are not accidents. Humans are purposefully breathed into existence in the image of God.
He creates, designs, and whispers exquisite purpose into each life.
That is why human life has sanctity, and that is why it is absurd, fleshly arrogance to devalue even a molecule of that.
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