Heinz is running an advertisement now that starts with a tomato plant and what looks like a tomato growing yet it slowly morphs into a heinz ketchup bottle. The catch phrase is "grown, not made". This has really tickled my theological ponderings.
Are we grown or are we made? God created us in His image, perfect and complete.
Yet now we are covered by the stain of original sin that distorts this image.
I have thought repeatedly about whether we are grown or made. Is the perfecting power of the Spirit "growing" us into our intended form or does the Spirit instead, through his sanctifying power uncover our original form or, how we were "made"?
In pondering this I have come to the conclusion that it is a bit of both because we only have access to the power of the Spirit through the blood of Jesus. The acceptance of God's grace filled gift in Jesus unleashes incredible power within each of us that goes to work refining and growing us into God's original intent, uncovering His image, removing the junk that the world has sold us, that we have bought, removing the lies about ourselves that we have believed. The Spirit convicts us when we digress back to these places, believing that we are who people tell us and not who God tells us. I am rambling now, but I guess the conclusion I have come to is that we are made to be grown.
What do you think?
"This is the written account of Adam's line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God." Genesis 5:1
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