Good Creation

22 June 2007 – Good Creation

1 Timothy 4:4-5

Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks. For we know it is made acceptable by the word of God and prayer.

1 Tim 4:16

Keep a close watch on how you live and on your teaching.

Let me start off with the ultimate Scripture from Genesis:

Genesis 1:1, 31

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…. Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!

Let us notice what God has said when he created the heavens and earth, he looked over all he had made in the past six days, he saw that it was very good! It is not difficult to catch the meaning that it was GOOD. So we should bear in mind that since everything God created is good, but in the very world nowadays, we had noticed that the world is not as good as God created before, agree?

So, what should we do now? Reject it? Leave it alone? Or perhaps we just stay in the church always and enjoy the presence of God without letting the world has a chance to ‘touch’ us, so that we would not be contaminated!?! Friends, I tell you, CERTAINLY NOT! You have hurt God’s heart when you did so! God did not tell us to do this, God doesn’t want us to leave the world, but he still put us in the world nowadays. Think about it! Why he still wanted to place us in this world? There must be some mission waiting for us to complete!

So this is our Cultural Mandate, we should go into the world and get involved, but not to devote into the world, but use your talents, your knowledge, your success to make a difference in the world! Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it! This is what God’s will.

So we should not be arguing for the unspiritual things such as what food we should or shouldn’t eat. Friends, God is far greater than food right? As we pray, it is made holy and acceptable in God, for whatever you do, you do it for the Lord and then it will be acceptable, as everything created in God is good! We should restore it back into God’s original purpose of creating!

We are the conversionist! That convert the abused things back to the things that functions in God’s way! Let’s treat it with the renewed mind and attitude! (again? :))

Franco