29
May
2006
Power and Purpose!
Amy bought me a new NASB Bible at the weekend! And this morning as one must do with a new Bible, it was time to go back to Genesis ch.1 – wow! How powerful God is, that His word or words can bring so much into being!
My thought pattern as it often does began to drift, lets look at a few of these poweful statements in Genesis.
“3. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.”
No He didn’t say it would be nice if it wasn’t dark, he didn’t speak negative before making it be, there was no great length of words, just straight to the point – “Let there be light” – Why so effective? Because God is in control! He is the creater, He is in charge, He is all powerful!
“26.Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
I was telling a few people about a moment I had several weeks ago looking out the back of Phils house, I was watching the cows eat grass, dump, walk a bit, eat grass ,,,,, (you get the picture) - I said to myself there is Gods Creation – the cow fulfilling its purpose, eating grass to produce milk and one day a few sirloin steaks.
But what about humans, what is our purpose, more to the point, Christians what is your/my purpose. For some reason we need to be in a seen part of ministry, to be on the pulpit, on tv, healing the sick or stuff like that to be fulfilling our purposes in life? Our purpose is maybe as wee see in verse 26 to look after animals, our families, our friends, to Love Gods creation, we are created in Gods image – an image that reflects Love, and likewise maybe our purpose is to use the power we have were we rule in everyday life to Love as well, so for a father to Love his Children, for a manager to love and care for His staff, for a Builder to Love and take care of the buidling that one will inhabit, for a Teacher to Love and care for the children under his/Her care.
Maybe our Purpose is simpler than I thought.
Today make Your Primary purpose in Life to LOVE!
phil
seems like you need some love and comments….. anyhow, good to see you’ve moved to the definitive translation…. always knew Amy would sort you out.
your bro pd.