"Altogether, almost half of human genes - the largest proportion known in any organism - don't do anything at all, as far as we can tell, except reproduce themselves."
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
I read this and it makes me wonder: have we got, built into us, the potential for much, MUCH more life? Half our genetic makeup just sits there, doing nothing except reproducing itself so it carries on. And we only use something like10% of our brains.
One day we will be resurrected and will be more fully alive than ever before, with new bodies, capable of much more, far beyond what we can comprehend now. I wonder if God has somehow already built this potential into us. We just can't "access" it in this life.Like we're mostly asleep. Stumbling around in a daze. Only 10% alive.
If you read some of Paul's letters, he often uses imagery like this. But he also goes further. Paul's perspective is that, through Jesus, we can slowly become more awake even now, start living in the new world, while other people yet sleep. We can wake up and live more fully, more completely, even if it's still only a tiny bit more like our future life.
Could we somehow start living this built-in potential in this life?
I'm not completely sure how this all works yet, but my hunch is that saturating yourself in Paul's writings will give us some ideas.
