Work was always God’s design for us to be able to draw out all that is this creation for the demonstration of our nobility having been created in the image of God, and for the glory of God. We forget that work can and must be redeemed. You know how that works? You redeem your yard every week. If you were go away for six months and come back, you would find out what the curse would do…. Or open all the windows and doors in your house and leave it for a year and come back and se what is inside, and what lives there. It is a battle and we all understand that battle. We extract goodness out of God creation. That was Adam’s job and now we have to fight against the curse to extract that goodness. We are called to that work because it is noble and because it is God-glorifying. That was Paul’s thinking in his letter to the Thessalonians. There is an overriding concern in the minds of the believers that the return of the Lord has already happened. So those who “thought themselves to be spiritual” quit working in order to wait for … READ MORE

Have you ever noticed how animals have an ambling lifestyle. All animals have a born, life, and die cycle. While they can move up and down the pecking order of who is the stronger animal, they do not better their lot in life. They do not work, and the do not toil for their living, they simply exist in the environment they are born, adapting to the changing surroundings, to make their best of their situation. Humans are created with a purpose, and apart of that purpose was to work. Unlike any of the other creatures that God created man was given a divine directive in Genesis 2:15 “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and keep it.” This makes mankind special in all of God’s creation, because we are designed from the original creation to have a special part of God’s creation. What we do with our lives is important not only to God but also to those around us. God put us on this earth to be busy about His call in our lives. To many people see their work as a “necessary evil” It is what … READ MORE

Throughout the prologue to John’s gospel (1:1-18) John has declared the profound truths of Christ’s deity and Incarnation. reaching a powerful crescendo in verses 14-18. These verses summarize the prologue, which in turn summarizes the entire book. In his characteristically simple language, John expressed the glorious reality of the incarnation by pointing out its nature, witnesses, and impact. We see here the mystery of the incarnation – the fact that the Word now assumed a new form of existence. There was a unity of the Lord’s person before and after the incarnation. He did not cease to be God, the second person of the Godhead in his incarnation but at the same time his humanity was both real and complete. The humanity of the Lord Jesus was not something temporarily assumed and then later discarded, it expressed a new form of existence not a new existence. It is this incarnation that allows Him to represent us before the Father in an eternal basis. We do not have to go to men for forgiveness, or intercession, instead according to 1 Timothy 2:5 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” Jesus has become … READ MORE