He created man in His own image, therefore man looked like God, and man was created out of muddy clay , God caused for a mist which contained particles of water in order to mix the clay and started this sculpture , man was not created by the Word like everything else in God’s creation with man He took time to create, He wanted man to be in His own image and He wanted man to have reasoning, a mind to think and to make decision, and in order to have a conversation with him, man had to have freedom and this what God created, at the end he looked to the this sculpture and breathed His Spirit and the statue became alive. This was the finishing touch and the gift that man received from the Creator – life and soul “I thank you, High God--you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvellously made! I worship in adoration--what a creation!” [Psalm 139:14 – The Message].

Then woman was created and they were called Adam and Eve. Adam from a statue of clay became a living soul, a living being when God breathed on him and the Spirit of the Lord entered into Adam, and from that moment we all have a portion of God that we need to release and this will only happen when we accept Christ Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. The breathing of the Spirit of the Lord brought a release of life to the statue and it became a living soul, became alive and he was called Adam, Eve was created from a rib taken from Adam, this brought about the significance of marriage, and of unity, like Adam earlier Eve must had the experience of receiving the Spirit of the Lord.

What was wonderful was the fact that God each day conversed with Adam in fact they walked in the cool of the evening. The other lovely factor was that they conversed in a spiritual language, until the day Adam and Eve sinned and the conversation stopped, two important things, two important facts stopped from that moment, the fellowship and the conversation, by this I mean the spiritual conversation, I believe that Adam and Eve were saturated of the spirit of God, and the glory of the Lord, this was the reason why they were not aware of his nakedness.

God was aware that this creation was not going to be faithful therefore He told Adam and Eve not to eat of fruit of the tree of life to see if Adam and Eve passed the test of obedience. They, until disobedience came on the scene walked in the Spirit of God. Since that day there has been a longing in God’s heart to see this happening again when man would speak to Him in an heavenly language, filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with His presence and glory, yet there was this impediment that stopped this to happen, sin was still ruling man, and even though there were sacrifices dedicated to God, they could not remove the stigma of sin.

God needed a sacrifice that would wipe away sin and open the door for His Spirit to be breathed once again into man’s nostrils to give man life again. John 3:16 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”[The Message] is the key, Jesus had to die to reconcile man to God, and thus restore the relationship and fellowship between God and man and once this was done then the door for the Holy Spirit was opened to fill man, sutured man in order to converse again with God in an heavenly language.

This was also a type of things to come, when Jesus was walking on earth, He spoke to His disciples about the Holy Spirit and the functions that He had and the impact that the Holy Spirit was going to have not only on them also to others that would believe on Him. On His resurrection “Then he took a deep breath and breathed into them.” Receive the Holy Spirit," he said.”[John 20:22] a new life, a spiritual life moving in God dimension speaking a new language, the divine language of God, bringing the Church in the place before Adam sinned, this is what the Lord has desired ever since the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden, from His presence

Life and life more abundant means just that, salvation and the infilling of the Holy Spirit go hand in hand and the clay that became man came alive with the breath of God, so on the day of Pentecost one hundred and twenty people were set on fire with the infilling of the Holy Spirit and the first century Church moved in the power and life of that outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The at the beginning of the twenty century  there was another outpouring  that brought the Church in a place of power and anointing  once again the Holy Spirit came down and breathed life in vessels of clay and from that moment many wonderful things happen, some good, some bad. But through it the all Lord was and is in control.

Man once again is conversing with the Lord in a spiritual language, until the day will come when man will stand in the presence of the Lord saturated with His glory without distinguishing man or woman but all covered with His glory and Spirit we will walk in the cool of the evening with God. And it will come to a full circle.

By Sergio Occhiochiuso