Allow me to share with you God's original plan. The Lord God spoke these words to mankind: 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.”
Religion is man's idea, not God's. God's original idea is much bigger and much better than anything we humans could ever dream of. So, what was the Lord God's big idea? He decided to extend His Heavenly Kingdom to the earthly plain, to expand His supernatural realm into the natural realm. Or, to put it another way, the Lord God decided to fill the Earth with the culture of Heaven. Now the question, How did the Lord God bring His big idea into being?
In this, as in almost everything else He does, the Lord God did the unexpected. Typically, human kingdoms and empires rise and fall, through war and conquest; but not the Lord God's. Because, His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
God did something completely different. When the Lord God decided to bring the culture of Heaven to the planet Earth, He did not use war. He did not use conquest. He did not issue a code of laws. No, when the Lord God set out to bring Heaven to Earth, He did something much simpler; something uniquely beautiful and wonderful. He planted a garden.
The key to understanding human kind's presence and purpose on Earth, is to understand God's original intent. Jesus always referred back to the beginning when speaking to those around Him. When Jesus was speaking concerning marriage: But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.' If we know what the Lord God intended from the beginning, we can make better sense of where we are now and where we need to be going. Intent can be defined as original. It is more important for us to know what an individual intended than to know what he or she actually stated or did. This is one reason why there are so many confused individuals in the world. We have misunderstood God's original intent. We have misunderstood not only ourselves, but also the Lord God's purpose for us on planet earth. Amen.
Genesis 1:28 Isaiah 55:8 Mark 10:6
~~W.R. Luchie
Religion is man's idea, not God's. God's original idea is much bigger and much better than anything we humans could ever dream of. So, what was the Lord God's big idea? He decided to extend His Heavenly Kingdom to the earthly plain, to expand His supernatural realm into the natural realm. Or, to put it another way, the Lord God decided to fill the Earth with the culture of Heaven. Now the question, How did the Lord God bring His big idea into being?
In this, as in almost everything else He does, the Lord God did the unexpected. Typically, human kingdoms and empires rise and fall, through war and conquest; but not the Lord God's. Because, His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
God did something completely different. When the Lord God decided to bring the culture of Heaven to the planet Earth, He did not use war. He did not use conquest. He did not issue a code of laws. No, when the Lord God set out to bring Heaven to Earth, He did something much simpler; something uniquely beautiful and wonderful. He planted a garden.
The key to understanding human kind's presence and purpose on Earth, is to understand God's original intent. Jesus always referred back to the beginning when speaking to those around Him. When Jesus was speaking concerning marriage: But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.' If we know what the Lord God intended from the beginning, we can make better sense of where we are now and where we need to be going. Intent can be defined as original. It is more important for us to know what an individual intended than to know what he or she actually stated or did. This is one reason why there are so many confused individuals in the world. We have misunderstood God's original intent. We have misunderstood not only ourselves, but also the Lord God's purpose for us on planet earth. Amen.
Genesis 1:28 Isaiah 55:8 Mark 10:6
~~W.R. Luchie
