What Is Man ? Job 7:17 (Part 1)

The question is What is man?  It would seem a fair question to ask, of ourselves, and of the Lord really. If we start really basically the answer is pretty simple. We are made out of stuff.  OK, maybe not that simple. Here is a break down that you are probably more familiar with.  The human body is primarily composed of 65-90% water.  The explains our inability to tolerate too long a time spent without  water doesn't it and why becoming dehydrated has such a detrimental effect on our human performance. 

Another way to measure the stuff we are made of is to look at the various elements that make us up. Incredibly the entire human body is made up of just 6 elements - oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus.  The thing that is surprising to me, is because of this kind of consideration the human body is composed primarily of oxygen. Approximately 60-65% in fact. 

In Genesis 2:7 we read how God scraped up some dirt and molded it into His own image and blew into this dirt scuplture's nostrils the breath of life and he (the dirt-man) became a Living Soul.  The breath of God changed the idea of a man into a Man.  It changed the non living dust into a living soul and created Adam. It still changes man today.

Its not so surprising to me that we are nearly 90% water then because Jesus said to the woman at the well that if she knew who it was that was talking to her, she would ask Him (Jesus) and He would give her Living Waters to drink. This Living Water is even more important to our ultimate health than mere h2o.  Its also not surprising to me that we are made up of nearly 60% oxygen at the same time since it was the Breath, the nesh-aw-maw, the Spirit of God that brought Adam alive.  It is the Word of God that gives us Life. Jesus said that the Words he spoke were both Spirit and Life.  It is the Spirit that quickens or makes alive completely. 

The question was What is man? Well I would suggest that we were primarily designed to be made up of the Spirit of God - Living Water and Life giving Breath/Words.  I need things broken down simple for me to really get it, and this is pretty simple indeed. We need the Word of God to become, and stay alive. At least alive (quickened) so that we can and will be ready when He comes for us at the close of this age or at the end of our race. 

What is man?