The Genesis Factor Pt. 1

Genesis- literally the "coming into being or existence" from the Hebrew "bereshit" literally "In the beginning."

I asked myself, "what does this have to do with me?" God asked Job. "where you there when I laid the foundations of the Earth?" Job was not. So, most certainly I didn't have a hand in it either. Does that mean that Genesis is nothing more than and archaic story that documents our glorious yet humiliating beginnings? Sadly that is what it would seem.

But.....look closer. Does life not spring forth from all around us everyday?

Genesis 1:26-28 NIV

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

God has granted us dominion over all living creatures in the earth. Although we ourselves have no power in and of ourselves, we are given limited access to our Father's unlimited power. The power to create and the power to destroy. This is the Genesis Factor.

How could a being so great and powerful entrust to us, the weak, frail and flesh-minded the power of life and death? Does God not know the wickedness that resides in the heart of a man? God's plan was never for us as His creation to carry the role of demi-gods. Instead, He desires to have us become a part of His "master plan".

Being created in His image, we are ingrained with a desire to create life and sadly apart from Him the will to destroy it. As disciples of Jesus Christ, being a part of God's ongoing creation draws us nearer to His heart.

Unfortunately, after the Fall in the Garden of Eden, the heart of man was severed from the heart of God. This separation has left us with the unquenchable desire to create and destroy without the pure and Holy motives of a Father whose only purpose is to love and be loved by His creation.

In Pt. 2 of this little snippet we will explore what creation means to us as children of the Creator and why our part in Genesis is as important today as it was when Adam breathed his first breathe of life in the Garden.

Hope to see you soon for part 2 of the Genensis Factor.

Blessings,

Gabriel

Barbarian Disciple

OK. I'm back!

Hey everybody! Long time no see. Yeah it's been a wild and crazy summer. I will be sharing all the amazing things God has and is doing in my life. But right at this moment I want to tell you guys and gals that no matter where you are at this exact moment, the Creator of the universe loves you.

Look around you and for just a moment be still and reflect on the unfathomable complexity of the world around you breath in. Now try to imagine how great and powerful the being is that could have created all of this not to mention the heavens above us. That wonderful and infinite being wants you to know one thing in this moment.....

HE LOVES YOU!

He wants to wrap HIS arms around you and embrace you in a way you have never even imagined.

I ask that for your sake and because of the love HE has for you that today you focus on the world around you. I pray that you will see HIS great might around you and open your heart to the love HE has to give.

Love and Blessings,
J. Gabriel
Barbarian Disciple