A Recipe for Self-Love

 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they my rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. Genesis 1:26

   You need to be confident that there is clear, unchallenged archaeological and anthropological evidence first brought to light by British anthropologist Dr. L.S.B. Leakey and followed by African scholar Cheikh Anta Diop, that the oldest fossil remains of a human being were found in sub-Saharan East Africa. Further, more recent DNA research has revealed that the first woman who lived on this planet carried the universal gene that is common to every racial grouping on earth. This woman—even geneticists call her Eve—was a Black-skinned, black-haired woman.

   In the first five verses of Genesis chapter 1, God creates the heaven and the earth, causes light to shine on the primordial darkness, separates light from darkness and gives each a name. And thus ends the first creative day. There is no biblical or scientific evidence to suggest that what is described in verses 1 through 5 happened in a 24-hour span of time. In fact, it could not have happened in 24 hours because there was no sun or moon yet created, and therefore no way to measure a 24-hour period.

   The first day could have been millions or billions of years long. But, if you want to believe that the first day was 24 hours long, then praise the Lord and pass the donuts! If you do not believe that the first day was 24 hours long, then praise the Lord and pass the donuts! What you believe about this has nothing to do with your personal expansion today.

   In all of God’s creative work from verse 1 through 25, He merely speaks “Let there be” and whatever He says comes to be. It is not until verse 26 above, that God speaks different creative words. God does not say, “Let there be humankind.” Rather, He says, “Let us make humankind.”

   In essence, the All-Originating Spirit of God is saying to you, “You were too important to me to leave to the impersonal ‘Let there be’ commands. I Personally had to make you to be like Myself—creative in and of yourself and free from antecedent limiting conditions.”

   Genesis, chapter 1, is not about humankind—it is about the character of the All-Originating Spirit of God. Only humankind is created in the image and likeness of the All-Originating Spirit of God. Thus, your identity rests in the personality, character traits, and identity of God. You cannot know who you are without understanding who the All-Originating Spirit of God is.

   The key that will open the door to your unlimited potential for personal expansion will appear when you accept the fact that you are—in your individualized, personal microcosm—precisely what the All-Originating Spirit of God is in Unindividualized, Universal Macrocosm.