Lovely landscapes, inexperienced vegetation, in every single place appear calm and peaceable. Hmm, I prefer it. Blue skies with fantastic birds hovering about it, beautiful and exquisite creatures dwelling in concord. Every little thing is so as simply the best way I had meant it to be. Glorious! Glorious! That is good, excellent. That is presumably God expressing pleasure over the work of His hand. He was comfortable about His creation. So upon every little thing He mentioned it was excellent. Genesis 1:3;
“And God noticed every little thing that he had made, and behold, it was excellent…”
Apparently to start with the world was excellent, no air pollution, no stains and there was no sin. Concord thrived and peace rained. Nature loved equilibrium. There was stability and the mechanics of the weather of the world was so as. It was a stupendous world.
We are able to see from the foregoing that the concept of making the universe was thrilling to God. Probably the most Excessive was comfortable about it. A significant purpose for God’s pleasure aside from the wonder and splendor of the world, and of each different parts of nature, whether or not they’re dwelling or non dwelling, was that, it was creation that marked the start of the existence of man, a creature that bears the picture of God. Genesis 1:27;
“So God created man in his personal picture, within the picture of God created he him; female and male created he them.”
The scripture above explains why God was delighted in handing over to man, the dominion of the world. It’s just because he (man) is a bearer of the picture of God. So God gave him every little thing. Let’s check out Genesis 1:28;
“And God blessed them, and God mentioned unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the ocean, and over the fowl of the air, and over each dwelling factor that moveth upon the earth.”
It’s crystal from the scripture above that it was the need of God for man to have dominion over the earth and the air. A cautious take a look at the phrases “earth and air” implies complete dominion over the cosmos. That means man can go in the direction of any size within the cosmos so far as his knowledge can take him. So whereas man celebrates his breakthroughs in rocket science, astronomy and the like, it was not a factor of marvel earlier than God as a result of He had declared it already to start with. The purpose right here is that, essentially the most Excessive gave all of it to the bearer of His picture –man.
Whereas being caught up in a misty cloud of deep surprise, the Psalmist gave the expression:
“What’s man, that thou artwork conscious of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
The phrases spoken by the Psalmists may be summed up as God, what’s so particular about man?A solution has been introduced to this query above. Man is particular as a result of he’s a bearer of the picture of God. He’s so particular that God gave him dominion over the cosmos. This “specialness” of man is of precedence to God such that upon the derail of the primary man (Adam) and his progenitors, God needed to ship His solely begotten son “Jesus Christ” to position them again on observe. See John 3:16;
“For God so liked the world, that he gave his solely begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shouldn’t perish, however have eternal life.”
Apparently the important thing to getting again on observe is to easily imagine in the one begotten of God. To imagine Him because the one despatched to revive man. To imagine Him because the savior of the world.
The world is ours. God gave all of it. Apostle Paul knew this, his phrases to the Corinthians was: all issues are yours. See 1 Corinthians 3:21-22;
21 Due to this fact let no man glory in males. For all issues are yours;
22 Whether or not Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or dying, or issues current, or issues to return; all are yours…”
We are able to see in verse 22 of the scriptures above that even the world is ours. God gave all of it. He did on the very starting of creation.
Nonetheless, many are unaware of this actuality. The truth that God has given man all issues. So right here is the issue, many have upheld the issues of this world greater than the creator of the world. In different phrases, they’ve given honour to the reward reasonably than the giver of the reward. It’s like lusting after what you personal. It’s yours already so why lust after it. Within the mild of the foregoing, John the beloved instructed us to not love the world or the issues contained in it. See 1 John 2:15;
“Love not the world, neither the issues which can be on the earth. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is just not in him.”
Using the phrase “love” within the scripture above might suggest “lust coupled with a robust attachment”. So the instruction is that we should always not lust or connect our minds to this world or the issues contained in it. Why? As a result of all issues belong to us. The world and all its parts shouldn’t be given precedence over its creator. Apparently what makes us lovers of God reasonably than lovers of the world is in detaching ourselves from lusting after the world and issues contained in it. Anybody who has indifferent from the world and the issues contained in it’s connected to God.
