For as long as man has been here, he has questioned about where creation came from and why was everything created. The world's greatest minds have struggled with this question for millions of years. Scientist and professors have sought answers to this question and have tried explaining it with evolution and the Big Bang theory.
This question should never arise with the child of God. Men questioning the spirit realm because they cannot see it, would be like a fish believing the entire world is underwater because they've never lived on land. We are made in the Image and likeness of our Heavenly Father, God, Who is a Spirit. The spirit realm should be as familiar to us as it was to Jesus.
The reason the earth and the vast universe was created was for man. If you omitted man from the equation, then there would be no need for the vast provisions earth provides. All of it's beauty and resources would be wasted on the animals of earth. Our Father created and prepared a place that would please His children, just like a couple expecting a baby would prepare a nursery with pleasing and necessary provisions for that child.
Man was never supposed to be separated from his Heavenly Father. Man's body was to be immortal and his spirit eternal. Sickness, disease and death were never part pf God's plan for His children. The disobedience and high treason that occurred in the Garden of Eden caused man to die in his spirit and be separated from the life coming from his connection to God, Who is our life. Jesus came to do away with that spiritual death and bring restoration to God's family.
If man hadn't died spiritually, then he would never died physically. Spiritual death came first and then the life of God was gone from man and his body began dying. It took satan 930 years to teach Adam to die. Adam had only known life until that time in the Garden. We're taught to die after only 85-90 years, today and simply accept that. All of the misery and heartbreak that death has wrought to humanity was never in the Father's plan Whose heart longed for a family.
Even today, as we pray, "Our Father," we still hold back from a Father and son/daughter relationship with God. It must greatly hurt the heart of God when He sees His children being afraid and distant from Him. We still stand afar off in the outer courts instead of in the throne room of His grace. Even after God gave His Own Son as a sacrifice for us, we feel unworthy and unclean in His presence. All that God did through Jesus still seems not to have been enough to cleanse our conscience from our guilt and shame. This keeps us away from the great heart of Love Who gave it all to gain us back.
The whole of creation was to be a blessing of love and a nursery for God's family. He left nothing undone in His quest for the things that would please us. If we dive to the deepest parts of the ocean, there are a wealth of unknown fish and creatures of great beauty to amaze us. God didn't simply crate one bird, but He make thousands of different birds to please every one of us. God didn't just make one type of dog, but He made hundreds of different breeds to please different persons. He made thousands of varieties of flowers for the pleasure of various persons.
All of creation was just to be a pleasant place for His family to live. God declared that "everything was very good" before He created man to live among it. Everything was to be subjected to God's man, including animals and birds and the fish of the sea. Jesus proved all of this to be true during His earthly walk. As the "Last Adam," Jesus was like the first Adam except Jesus didn't succumb to the tests and trials of the enemy. Jesus did all of what God's children were born to do in the beginning. He had dominion over the elements, the laws of physics, demon spirits, the laws of gravity and even then fish of the sea. Jesus made the fish fill Peter's nets until the boat nearly sank under the load.
This is how all of God's children were to walk and live in the abundance of His creation. This is the place that Jesus came to deliver back into our hands for the Father. Through Him we were to be reconciled back to son ship rights with our Father. We were made to be in right standing and righteous by our faith in His completed work,. All the authority given to Adam was restored back to us in Jesus. His Name is our power of authority to all His inheritance.
We keep waiting to go to heaven for these things to be regained again. In His death and resurrection, Jesus has already done everything needed to deliver us from the bondage of the first Adam and bring us back to be one as He and the Father are One. When Jesus said that, "It is finished" on the cross, He meant it. There is no more debt to be paid under the Law of sin and death.
.
No comments:
Post a Comment