If you begin a sentence with those words,
then
beware.
Those little words of discontentment are the very words that
Satan uses to draw us into his deceitful traps.
>>All these thoughts
take our FOCUS away
from the
BLESSINGS that we ALREADY have!!
GUESS WAT??
THIS IS nothing new.
ITS THE same old story
that began in the Garden of Eden
with the SAME antagonist deceiving the leading lady.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let's start at the very beginning.
Five days after time began,
the Creator of the Universe gazed at all He had made and was not completely satisfied. Yes, as the sun set on each of the first five days on God's kingdom calendar, He said,
"It is good."
But there was something missing.
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Something more.
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Someone more.
The curtain rose. Everything had to be perfect for God's grand finale. The angels gathered round as God announced the final scene on the grand drama of
"In the Beginning."
God began with an announcement...
"Let us make man in Our own image."
This being will be different from all the rest.
With body, soul, and spirit,
man WILL enter into a
relationship
with the Creator on a
personal
and
intimate
level...
So God knelt on the ground and gathered a handful of dirt. He spat on the dust and began forming the most magnificent creation to date. With His very fingertips, God fashioned man's inward parts: capillaries, nerve endings, brain cells, hair follicles, eyelashes, taste buds. Meticulously and deliberately, the Artist created a masterpiece of divine design.
And as the lifeless form lay before the celestial audience,
And as the lifeless form lay before the celestial audience,
God placed His mouth upon the nostrils of man and breathed life into his waiting lungs.
A collective gasp ran through the crowd as man's lungs
filled with holy oxygen and he took his first breath.
As if God flipped the breaker switch of life,
man's heart began beating,
the lungs began expanding,
and the eyes began fluttering open to see.
And the curtain began to fall on this,
the sixth day of creation.
[31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.
So the evening and the morning were the sixth day. ]
Wait!"
the Creator cried.
"My work is not done.
It is not good for man to be alone!
I will create a helper suitable for him.
A companion like him, but yet, oh so different."
So, mid-air, the curtain rises to expose the day,
So, mid-air, the curtain rises to expose the day,
and God -- the Us, the Three-In-One, began to fashion the grand finale...woman.
Can't you just see it now?
Can't you sense the excitement of the angels as they hovered low?
From the very beginning of time,
man was set apart.
He was uniquely designed for a specific purpose
as God's image bearer
to rule the earth...
26 Then God said,
"Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness;
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air, and over the cattle,
over all F the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 So God created man in His own image;
in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
In the beginning, God!
That is the way it is throughout the Bible.
"Every knee [1] bow . . .
every tongue [1] confess that Jesus Christ is Lord"
God wants to be first and foremost in your life.
He is the Author of the first creation,
and He is the Author of the new creation in your heart.
In the first creation, the wind and the waves obey the Lord --
they have no choice.
In the new creation,
there is a choice:
to obey or not to obey --
1. the pleasures of sin for a moment
or 2. the favor of fellowship for a lifetime.
Have you chosen to put God first in your life?
*Not to decide is to decide.*
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