Do you remember being in your mother’s womb? I know the quick and natural response is “no.” But take a moment to try and look back into your memory through the eyes of Jesus. Can you picture him forming you in infancy? Can you imagine him breathing his breath of life in you? You are the work of his hands. You were born through him. 

John says “Through him all things were made.” From the beginning of your life, you’ve had the mark and fingerprint of Jesus in you. I know it’s sometimes commonplace to learn that “we’re all born sinners.” And while maybe there’s something to be said about being born into a world of sin, the truth is Jesus made you and he doesn’t make mistakes. And he doesn’t create sin. 

Every human being was created by Jesus, with his imprint on them. The devil can only twist and trick and lie and manipulate. But he doesn’t have the power to create or sustain life. That power only comes from Jesus. 

This is why Paul could comfortably tell people that in Christ we all live and move and have our being. You can’t get your “being” from the devil. Your pure being and life came from God, and it never truly left you. Yes,  it got twisted and distorted. We’ve all fallen into sin and fallen short of the glory that God bestowed upon us. But your entire existence is still rooted in God.

May Christ give you his eyes to look back at your life and see that his mark and his spark was always in you. The enemy has done all he can to distort it, but Christ’s light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot ultimately stop it (John 1:5). 

Christ was always the light within you, from the first moment you were given life. “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind” (John 1:4). And he’s still the light within you, to this day. May the eyes of your heart be enlightened (Ephesians 1:18) to see his glory within you and within all mankind.  

If you were abused and manipulated as a child, it was the enemy trying to taint the innocence of Christ within you. And no matter what you went through, Christ’s innocence remains. Anything that is from the enemy: lies, hate, pain, jealousy, insecurity, etc. None of it belongs to you. Christ died to make sin dead to us, holding no power over us, to reveal himself as our true identity. 

He is a fountain of pure light, of love, of purity, of glory. At Elisha’s Riddle we are always remembering the truth that Christ is the Riddle hidden in all of creation. The Logos, the Word of the Father, who is the life and light of all humanity. He is for you and in you today, as he always was and always will be.