It Is All In The Packaging
Celeste Solum
August 10, 2025
We live in a day an age of perception and sensory manipulation. Marketers spend much thought and effort into enticing and attractive packaging rather than improving or providing a quality product inside.
In our daily haste, we forget that the contents of a package are much more important than the wrappings.
We do this with people as well. If someone is well-groomed, attractive, with elegant clothing we will favor them with our time and attention. If a person is disheveled in appearance with a pungent odor we will dismiss them in our lives.
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him. Isaiah 53:2
The Bible is a standing stone encouraging us to pay attention to the inner character traits of a person-intelligence, values, beliefs, and invisible spiritual assets that make up the person, rather than what he projects. We know the essence is there, even when we cannot find the words to say.
The deepest recesses of our spiritual makeup very much determine the visible and orchestration of our life mission such as how I speak and move, what I say, where I go and what I do.
This is the Divine plan of Creation. God has a design and purpose for all matter, whether it is at the “Planck” size or the far reaches out to the heavens. All matters interact and were formed in such a way to carry out their mission.
Most of us know that each person has a soul. When our assignment comes to an end the soul leaves the body.
The Creation has a soul as well, and hinges on mankind, God’s ultimate handiwork, which is to study the Word and to walk in it’s ways.
The building blocks of creation were brought into existence through letters and words with intent.
To understand this brings dimension to creation, “ex nihlio” which means existence from nothingness. There was nothing in the physical reality before the moment of creation. There was but Creator God’s intent, and then:
-The universe came into being in order
-Tools would exist so that His will is fulfilled
Man exists to carry out the will of God as expressed in the Bible. The universe exists to provide the conditions right for man to carry our God’s will for Him.
This is critical to understand for you are here at this pivotal time in history because your steps are ordered by God. He has purpose for your life.
Many have questioned their life and purpose since 2020. Life has become more difficult with very little nuances of our historical and biblical history in the way we dreamed of living out our life and age.
For many, fellow mankind has disappeared just as the moist morning vapor.
“Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away”. James 4
You are a blessing and a very necessary part of the Divine Tapestry of Creation woven for the good of all things, whether it be the stars in a distant cosmos or a speck of dust which many of us do not contemplate, and yet contains a veritable universe all within its system.
Today, take time to nourish your spiritual essence. For mi‑b’sari echezeh Elokah—From my flesh I behold G‑d (Job 19:26).
God bless each of you,
Celeste