The God Gland

7 then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground,[b]and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.-Genesis 2:7

I love this line from the creation story. God breathed the breath of life into us.  I wonder if this is what resulted in us being made in his image?  I don't know if the Hebrew words line up, but perhaps it was the Holy Spirit herself that was breathed into us.

I believe that when we were created (however it happened) the one thing God certainly gave us was a desire to know him. Humanity spends so much time thinking about God. Even those who do not believe spend a great deal of time considering why they do not believe.  The hunger for God is every bit as real as the hunger for food.  What a terrible trick of nature it would be to hunger for food if food didn't exist!

There may even be a physical cause for this hunger.  The pineal glad, which helps us to fall asleep and awaken, has also been called "the God gland," and "the seat of the soul."  It has been labeled as a pseudoscience, but perhaps there is something to it.  Perhaps this is the physical cause of our need for a relationship with God, placed there by God.  Perhaps it is the thing inside us that connects the soul to the flesh and communicates with God for us.  Perhaps it's where we recognize that still, small voice.

Humankind has achieved so much since the time of Moses and since the time of Jesus.  We have explored the earth and our solar system and even a little beyond.  We have discovered so much through science and found that creation probably formed differently from the beautiful biblical accounts and that some of the miracles we have read about in the bible might have good scientific explanation.  And yet, for all of our knowledge... the majority of the world still believe in something or someone more. Maybe God placed our need for him within us.

Creator God,

Help us to acknowledge our inborn need for you. Amen.