Man was given a
task in the beginning…”Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the
air, and all the living things that crawl upon the earth…”
But that task was
given in the light of man’s creation…”Let us make human beings in our image,
after our likeness.” Human beings are to
be to the things of the earth as God is.
God is sovereign over all His creation.
God attends to His creation with love, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Is this how human beings are fulfilling their
task? I think not.
God made nature
self sufficient and low maintenance, requiring only fresh air, water, and food,
all of which He provides. Man was to
attend to the process not to impede on it or change it. Man was to be in relationship with nature,
just as God is in relationship with him.
A great many of our problems today are due to a breach in relationship;
man with his creator and man with God’s creation. When that relationship is broken we no longer
act in the image or likeness of God; we are left to act merely in our own image
and likeness; in the flesh.
“Now
the works of the flesh are evident; sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries,
dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these”
(Galatians 5:19-21).
Our decision and
choice to act outside of God’s dominion over us, to breach the relationship we
were created to have with Him and His world affects our relationship and
dealings with one another and with the natural world we live in. When we repent and return to our original
place of being in God’s image and likeness, our relationship with each other
and all of God’s creation will return to how they were created to be and
manifest themselves. I believe that was
why Jesus came to earth and dwelt among us; to do all he could to heal and
restore that relationship.
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