Life And How We Live It

 

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God

1 Corinthians 10: 31 NKJV 

What does your future hold?  Is your stock portfolio up to date?  What worries do you harbor towards your retirement years?  If you're like most people, you have more than enough worries over a life that is definitely finite.  I mean, how many people do you know (save one) who have come back from the dead and claimed, "What a marvelous place that was!"  As Christians, we're programed from day one that our future resides with the Lord God and not on this rock we call home.  Then again, many a Christian spend their days worrying about what the future holds.  It's easy to do, for all which we see before us each day is this world.  I get it.  Sometimes it's difficult to see singing angels and streets of gold through all which we experience in this world.  For this world is a dark and violent place, right?  It's a fallen world, right?  Well, let me remind you that it is also a world where the fingerprints of the Lord God are all over that which He has created {Genesis 1:1}.  God took nothing {Genesis 1:2}, and made it into something.  The critic will point out and ask how Gods fingerprints can be on such a dark world.  Hey, I agree, sometimes this world can look like one messed up place.  Yet, who is to blame for the seeming downfall of this world?  Did God suddenly decide to turn His back on all which He has created?  I think not.  If we take a step back and think about the history of our world we might see something interesting.  Because it's not God who is to blame for the downfall of this world, but we ourselves.  A good place to begin this torrid look into the history of mankind is at its source in the garden of Eden.  For it was here where Adam and Eve ate of the fruit and swallowed hook, line and sinker the bold faced lie that we are somehow separate from God {Genesis 3:4-5}.  Satan's promise was that we would indeed, 'Be like God' if we ate of that forbidden fruit.  Well, how did that work out for you?  What Adam and Eve did not see through the charming words of the cunning serpent was that they already WERE like God.  It was God who has created us in His own image {Genesis 1:27}.  It is also God who has breathed into us the breath of life {Genesis 2:7}.  From the beginning, we have been like God.  

They are of the world.  Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.  We are of God.  He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us.  By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 

1 John 4: 5 - 6 NKJV 

Some are going to say, Scott, are you saying that God turned His back on the world and allowed mankind to destroy it?  No, that's not what I'm trying to get across here.  Remember, as His creation, the Lords fingerprints are all over that which we see.  I recall a hiking trip a few years back where a good friend who continues to remain nameless challenged me to see God in the nature that was surrounding us.  If our eyes are opened, it's not too difficult to see.  For if God created all which we see, is it that far of a stretch that He is in all that He created?  Think about that the next time you look around and see all which is wrong with the world.  Remember also that God operates freely in all which He has created.  So, if you are indeed worried over all that is happening, go to the source and ask of Him what He is trying to show us through His works.  I don't profess to know all there is to know about the Lords ways, but I do know that I am able to have a conversation with Him any time I desire.  How is this possible?  The apostle Paul explains it to us in Galatians, of Christ Jesus who now lives in us {Galatians 2:20}.  Here's a radical thought, not only does God continue to rule over His creation, but Jesus walks in it through us each and every day.  Who knows, maybe this world isn't so bad after all.  

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."

Galatians 2: 20 NKJV 

~Scott~