When I was a boy in East Scottsdale, I could lay out in the backyard at night, long before pollution and the city lights, the night sky would light up like a Christmas tree. Lights everywhere: Orion, all the beautiful stars, all the arrangements, the oneâs known by name. Verses about Godâs grandeur would flood my mind:
How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond numberâ living things both large and small. (Ps. 104:24, 25)Â
âBut ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind. (Job 12:7-10)Â
Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths, lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding, you mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, wild animals and all cattle, small creatures and flying birds. (Psalm 148:7-10)
The crowning achievement of his creation is the human being.Â
O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxenâ Even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
(Psalm 8)
When philosophers and thinkers that live without Christ begin to think about the vast of life and the smallness of us, they become engulfed in the insecurities of life. But God says that he made the heavens and earth to be our home. He cast the stars into the black velvet night for us. He made all of nature with the colors and designs and complexities for us. And then told us to subdue the earth. Adam and Eve, what a great love story.Â
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, âBe 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.âÂ
And God said, âSee, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for foodâ; and it was so. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evilâŚThen the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, âOf every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.âÂ
And the Lord God said, âIt is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.â Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.Â
âAnd the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.Â
âAnd Adam said: âThis is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.âÂ
âTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.â (Genesis 1:27-30, 2:8-25)Â
Remember: creation was made for us, not the other way around. Whenever anything on this earth controls a person, it is a contradiction. When a person is bound by alcohol or drugsâthings that come out of the ground, thing we should rule overâwhen they rule over a person that is contradiction that should be stopped. A lesser should not be ruling over a greater. We are made to rule over it.Â
When Christ died, he put all things to subjection to him. We donât see it yetâŚnot until the millennial reign of Christ, when he sets up his throne on the earth for a thousand years. Before that, before he reigns as the coming king, he will reign through his beautiful bride, the Queen, the church. The unfinished business of the church is to raise up a remnant of people, the last day church, that will live in a totality of victory over all the enemies of the cross, over all the weapons of the devil, over all the Adamic nature.Â