The Life Principle

 

 

What is this thing called life

Which no man can ever create?

Though that doesn’t stop him from trying-

He is more desperate here of late.

 

His robotic feats are amazing,

We hear of artificial intelligence

But his efforts at creating human life

Are meeting Divine resistance.

 

God is the creator of all nature

In the beginning that’s what He did,

What man innovates is artificial

And to create life is from him hid.

 

God is the Creator of life

But this is without man’s zone

Even though he is at the stage

Where he is creating animal clones.

 

There is a moral responsibility

That God has taken on Himself,

Intrinsic to all human beings

There is the matter of moral health.

 

The life principle in man

Is really the breath of the Living God

And at the point of a man’s demise,

That life principle is recalled.

 

From God to man, from man to God

Never from man to man,

This life principle I must repeat

Is a part of the Father’s divine plan.

 

 

While a man can terminate a life

He is unable to give it back,

That is the prerogative of Almighty God

And that is a scientific fact.

 

There is a tendency to believe

That God and science are at odds

And in blinding the eyes of men

The devil has done a good job.

 

God is omni-science

There is no science outside of God,

The devil knows this too

But after all, it’s not his call.

 

God is the source of all life

Both natural and spiritual

And because our life is hidden in Christ,

That life is also eternal.

 

 

So, man cannot give life

It does not matter how hard he tries,

God is the limiter that determines

The altitude to which man flies.

 

For after all, God is the only God

And man will never be,

The creature can never be the Creator

And this, the creature needs to see.

 

The life principle we need to know

Is the principle for our life,

There is no life outside of Creator God

Without Him there is only strife.

Robots cannot attain to salvation

However apparently intelligent!

No amount of artificial intelligence

Can make a robot repentant.

 

God is the one that gives life

Life physical is a loan from God

But His spiritual life is eternal

And this is the possession of the called.

 

The one who grasps this opportunity

Shall never, never die,

This assurance was given by Jesus

And on it we can rely.

 

You would recall the occasion

He’d given back life to Lazarus,

The only resurrection and the life

Is the Creator, the Lord Jesus!

 

Stewart Russell © May 2020