(The following text is a reprint of a post dated 7/27/05)
Where Will It End for You?
Once, before there was an Earth or a blanket of water swaddling the Earth -- even before there were angels – there was a great all-powerful God who lived from forever. This great God never got lonely (a Being so great and with so many characteristics does not know loneliness), but His will from forever had been to create a creature with traits and distinctive qualities of being -- a personality – similar to the Creator's. Eons before He implemented this desire, God had thought within His many-faceted being, "I want to make a creature patterned after my own diverse Self, someone who will be able to commune with me and glorify my great Name."
When the time was right, this great God went to work with a will and purpose that would not be denied. He first created a habitat for the man-creature that was yet unmade. When chaos erupted on the planet that was in the making, God said, "Not so!" and His Spirit brooded over the confusion like oil spread on troubled waters, wresting tranquility out of the demonic turmoil, and peace reigned again on planet Earth. And God looked and He saw that it was good.
In order to stress the grandeur of the creative moment, we could say that now God threw out His arm in a mighty, sweeping gesture and from each outstretched finger a myriad of angels sprang into existence. We could say that, yes, but there was no need for the grand gesture. We have to think and pray as we read any of the great biblical accounts, so that they might impact us with the drama that is inherent in them, and which the Bible states so tersely. We use great figures of speech due to our inability to convey the majesty that was in the act itself. All the great Creator did was speak – no – all He did was to reason the angels into being. It was a much grander moment than I could express in words and by using dramatic language. It was similar to God's saying, "Let there be light!" Did He actually speak the words, or did the thought project itself from within His mighty Self – and light flared forth instantly and unimpeded? The act alone, without my verbal props, is the drama and the majesty and the grandeur.
God's next act was the pièce de résistance: He formed man out of the dust of the ground that lay so plentifully all around. It was not, strictly speaking, a creative act; God used what He had already created to mold a man-creature into existence.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Gen. 2.7)
Again the biblical account does not elaborate on the act. It puts the story out there in a bare-bones manner. God has intended for us to study and pray for further enlightenment. We need flesh to cover the skeleton account. When we seek Him diligently, God begins to reveal to us the utter glory and wisdom and knowledge and power that are inherent in Him and which translate into His wonderful acts in the Creation of the universe. He will also show us many other bits of gold as we dig into His Word.
Looking again at the Bible passage above, we see that God took a handful of dust from the ground and molded it into the form of man that God had already conceptualized. That lifeless body was material man as opposed to the spiritual nature given to him soon afterwards when God "breathed into [him] the breath of life." What a powerful deed lies in the bare words used to tell it! Man, taken from the ground on which he would walk, was sculpted by God into the shape that pleased Him, and He then breathed into man not just breath, but the spirit of life that would never cease to exist. (This does not denote eternal life; it signifies only eternal existence. Eternal life is the "more abundant life" of which Jesus spoke many centuries later.)
"And God blessed them [Adam and Eve], and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over...every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Gen. 1.28)
This Is Where It Ends
We have been looking at some of the underlying facts in the Creation story. There are many more fascinating bits of data that we have not touched, many of which we are ignorant. But we know this: God created the worlds and man and all we can see around us. He gave the Earth to us to rule it and to cultivate it as a gardener does his flowers. It goes without saying that we have failed miserably, nor have we given God the worship and praise that are due Him.
The Church is actively trying to reach every single human there is in the world today, but we know that many people will reject the truth of God. Therefore it remains up to you, whoever you are who are unsaved, to make your own salvation sure. You have to leave the lost pack of lemmings that are running mindlessly to their everlasting destruction, and turn to God for yourself. It is so senseless to run to your own damnation!
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