GOD PREPARED FOR US
God had the vision to create men and women so
that He would have a family to love. But before He even created Adam and Eve, He
had to do the prep work. In my world of painting in the construction and
entertainment business, it’s usually 75% prep work like sanding and caulking and
only about 25% doing the actual painting.” We complain about it, but that’s just the way
it is, and we’re in good company because it was that way with God too. He spent
five days preparing the whole earth and the heavenlies for the entrance of His
humans.
Genesis 2 summarizes the creation:
“These are the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God
made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew” (Gen 2: 4-5).
Notice here that in God’s realm, the plant
already existed, and every herb existed in God’s mind and sight before it
became a physical thing on the earth. God shows us right here in the beginning
of the Bible how we are to have faith to bring good things into the earth
realm: We need to “see” them in the 5th-dimensional “vapor” form,
and with our faith and our words, we bring them into our natural realm, just
like God is showing us here.
“There went up a mist from the earth and
watered the whole face of the ground. 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. 2:6-7).
In the Chumash, the first five books of the
Bible in Hebrew, verse 7 is translated: “And He blew into his nostrils the soul
of life.” The Chumash goes on to explain: “God thus made Man out of both the
lower [earthly] and upper [heavenly] matter: his body from the dust and his
soul from the spirit. ‘One who blows, blows from within himself,’ indicating
that Man’s soul is part of God’s essence. This soul made Man a living being,
defined as a speaking spirit. Accordingly, the life that is unique to Man and
which only God could “blow” into him is the rational soul that includes the
power of intelligent speech. This is what elevates a human above animal life:
the ability, and therefore, the responsibility to use his intelligence in God’s
service.”
God loved us so much that He spent five days
preparing the earth and the heavenlies just for us to enjoy.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
“So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, ‘Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every
living thing that moveth upon the earth.’
“And God saw every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the
sixth day” (Gen 1:26-28, 31).
And God did this for us: “And the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the
ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of knowledge of good and evil” (Gen. 2: 8-9).
Some people may think that the earth doesn’t
belong to us anymore, but I believe that it does. God’s not going to anyone or
anything take His gift away.
Psalm 115: 15-16 tells us: “Ye are blessed of the Lord, which
made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the
heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the
children of men.”
God thinks we are very important, and throughout the Bible,
He reminds us of how much He loves us and of how important we are to Him
always.
In Psalm 8, David thinks about how much God thinks about us:
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon, and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
what is man, that
thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?
“For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels” (Ps.
8:3-5). The word for angels is Elohim, which can be translated “angels” in
some places, but should have been translated “God” in this verse because we
know from Hebrews 1: 14 that angels are not regarded above humans, but were
created to serve God’s men and women: “Are they not all
ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of
salvation?”
God created men and women to have dominion
over the other things He created. And that means dominion in a good way, to
care for the earth and the wonderful other things and beings God created.
“Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
thou hast put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen,
yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of
the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas” (Ps. 8:6-8).
We as God’s living speaking children, have
great authority over all things of the earth. As we get to know God’s will for
good to reign, we have authority in the name of Jesus Christ to call the good
things of God into our realm, and we have the authority to throw the bad ones
out.
All beings and things are subject to the authority we’ve been
given by God in the name of Jesus Christ. The name of Jesus Christ is our
calling card and our weaponry as well.
Paul reminds us in Philippians 2:10: “That
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.”
Our
God loves us so much that He knew we would be born exactly when we were born
and to whom we would be born, and He knew exactly what would be happening in
everyone of our lives for all our lives. He planned the earth and all the
heavens for us. We have authority in the earth and the heavenlies, and we have
Him.
Let’s
be brave in our individual endeavors, and let’s draw close to Him always.
“How often would
I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings”(Matt. 23:37).
Love, Carolyn
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