“Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?” (Luke 11:40)

When we think of God as the Creator we easily think of God as creating the physical world around us, but we often miss that God is the Creator of the spirit and soul within us, and the Creator of our minds and our hearts.

God has created all of us with the hidden place of our own minds and spirits. And these are often the places we see needing God the least, and often the places we live most in rebellion against God.

As God sustains the physical world around us, so we need Him for the inner world of our own souls. We need God to teach us how to live.

As mentioned in the previous section, we often walk in this world in whatever beliefs and philosophies catch our fancy, and we don’t understand how much this is idolatry, nor just how dangerous and harmful this is.

We need God to teach our souls how to live, to show us the way to go. It is only in truly abiding with Him that we come into a right understanding of life, meaning, wisdom, truth, godliness, and goodness.

We need God to define life, and to teach us how to live. Without this we wander beneath false gods, desiring many things that we need: meaning, purpose, life, truth, goodness, peace, and yet we will never truly find these without God.

Again, we must talk about the church here, because our need is for God and what is truly of Him, and we can fall short of this by being brought into bondage to false ideas about God (Gal 2:4-5). These things are some of the greatest traps of the Devil, and many fall prey to them.

Rather, the need is for what is truly of God. To be taught by the Word of God and the Spirit of God. “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” (Rom 8:14) It is imperative that we truly be led by God and not by the spirit of the minds of men in their own ideas about God. Many serve the latter, imagining they are following God, and do not see just how starved and lacking, harmful and vain, their ways truly are. They have mere philosophies in religion, which are no different than the ways of the world—walking in mere philosophies about life.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (Jer 2:13)

But as we step beyond these things, both living beneath our own minds and the mind of the world, and beyond the minds of mere men in the name of God, this is where we come to be truly led by God. He is the true fountain of living water, and where our lives are found. He is not just the Creator of the physical world, but the Creator of all within us.

(This is an excerpt from the Genesis 1 commentary.)