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, been thinking 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 to make ourselves the centre 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.

And 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.

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