Where Kisses Come From

Kisses Come from Heaven

 God's Word says that where graciousness and truth have met together, righteousness and peace have kissed...

Psalm 85:10

Graciousness and truth have met together;

Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Incredibly, after reading this, my computer page went to Ed Sheeran's YouTube video:

My mind was somehow imagining this tune might have been going through Our Creator's Mind after He breathed the human soul into Adam's nostrils:

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living person.

And he became a living person ... 

Looking at The Holy Bible, I thought about what God must have envisioned that living person to be, to have inspired all of those words that explain who and what was meant in the examination of that which was created. God described what He had created by the sixth day this way:

Genesis 1:31a

And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.

Hmm...

God "saw all that He had made." God "saw" (רָאָה râʼâh, raw-aw'; a primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively examine and behold, H7200). Thus, God saw man in the RAW, in the manner in which God intended, purposed and beheld man to be as He examined the man He created as He imagined.

Check out what GOOGLE's Generative AI says about what is necessary to be able to see to get an idea about what goes into being able to see. 

His vision lit all He had made, everything, with its fully intended purpose, function and presentation, to be seen and examined ... and BEHELD; it was not just good, it was VERY GOOD.

Have you ever wondered what was meant by "very good"?

Imagine coming across a fine porcelain vase on display in a museum. How would you know this vase is very good and thus worthy of being displayed to the glory of the potter that made it?

You would very carefully, gingerly almost, hold the vase up to a light. This light identifies perfection in its having been made. It also identifies its flaws and imperfections. The fewer imperfections seen, the more and more pure is that which is examined by the light. So, light is a metaphor for the action of seeing with The Creator's mind's eye(s).

BEHOLD, it passes intensive inspection and comparison against that which was intended. The goal in its making is for it to be without flaw! To be without (חָטָא châṭâʼ, khaw-taw'; a primitive root; properly, to miss; hence [figuratively and generally] sin, H2398).

If in the porcelain's examination flaws (sins) are found, then wax is used to eliminate the flaws. So, when the porcelain is held up to the light, the flaw(s) will not be seen. Our word for that description is "sincere," which is literally and figuratively "without wax."

That Light referred to in Genesis 1:3 was God's first creation. In describing God's creation in Genesis 1 & 2, I didn't see a single, "ooops." Did you? We were made in His image

So how is it that mankind got to its present state? It has been 5000 or more years since Creation took place. Our quest to be "like" God has proven that we all have still forgotten that "like" God is not "is" God. And it pointedly says that mankind should quit trying to think of themselves in that way. As the Bible says, man was made in God's image, not as God.