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Monday... We were created with a purpose in mind.


Genesis 2:15 (AMP), "So the Lord God took the man [He had made] and settled him in the Garden of Eden] to cultivate and keep it."

Monday... We were created with a purpose in mind.

And that is so important for us to realize. Yes, a relationship with God has so many benefits but one of them is not to sit back and let God do it all for us. 

Genesis 2:4b-5 (NLT) says, "When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil." Verse 7 says, "Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person."


But then here comes verse 15 (AMP), "So the Lord God took the man [He had made] and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it."

Now understand that this was all before sin came into the world. Man and woman made a wrong choice which messed up what God really wanted. And of course there were some major consequences that came because of their sin but sitting back and doing nothing and letting God do it all wasn't one of them.

Verse 15 in The Message says, "God took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order." 

And then in verse 22 it says, "Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man." The Amplified Bible says, "And the rib which the Lord had taken from the man he made (fashioned, formed) into a woman, and He brought her and presented her to the man." Notice that the rib is from his side.

Earlier verse 18 says, "Now the Lord God said, 'It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper [one who balances him - a counterpart who is] suitable and complimentary for him.'" And a note says, "like his opposite." 

Here is the key, God created each of us to balance us out, to be a counterpart. We really do need each other not to just sit back but to do our part of taking care of what God created. Could it be that we are an extension of him? Yes, they blew it and sin came into the world but God didn't stop there.

He brought his Son into the world as a sacrifice so that the sin problem could be taken care of in each one of us so that we could have as 1 John 1:7b (NLT) says, "fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin." You see the sin that came into the world back with Adam and Eve, the man and the woman, broke us all apart. And that wasn't God's plan.

Verse 9 says, "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness" and get us back to what we were create to do together.

Again, we were created by God with a purpose in mind and to do it together with Him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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