Welcome to Things Unseen, especially if you're new today to our weekday podcast.

This week we've been thinking about the ways in which our lives can be distorted by sin,

the way our souls, that is, our lives as creatures originally and

lovingly made as the image of God to reflect his likeness. I can think about the way these souls

can be bent out of shape. I wonder if you ever think this. I might never have been. I did nothing to bring myself

into being. More than that, this world might never have been. So my existence, the fact that I have

life, I owe it all entirely to God. It's because that's actually true

that it's logical and originally was instinctive for us to love him, to live for him, to want to

please him, and to enjoy him.

When you think about this, how sinful our sin really is,

because it even blinds us to these basic realities.

We don't see God clearly, we don't see the world clearly, and we don't see ourselves clearly.

What fools we are't see ourselves clearly.

What fools we are to make ourselves the center of the universe.

When compared to our glorious creator, we're no bigger than ants crawling across the ground.

But we strut about the world so full of ourselves.

We need to be reminded of Paul's words in Romans 9.

Who do you think you are, O man?

Whoever you are.

What I'm thinking about here is that one way in which our sin distorts our soul shape

is that it causes our heads to inflate with pride and self-sufficiency.

We are big-headed souls, and that's not a pretty sight.

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