Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being (Psalm 146:1-2)
The original Man (in Adam) was the quintessential epic of God’s creation – made for glory to display the grandiose of life, color and splendor. Man was God’s flagship to show forth His praise; the mastery of His excellence and creativity. Man represented and reflected God on the Earth…being His image and likeness.
About Man and God’s intent of him, The Bible says, “O Lord, our Lord,…When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have established, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, All sheep and oxen, And also the beasts of the field, The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.” (Psalm 8:1-8 AMP). Man was God’s envoy having dominion over other creations. About the mind and details of God’s intent for Man, even Man could not attain, how Man wondered about Man to God; “What is man that You are mindful of him…” This is an important and needed assignment for each of us, “why is God so mindful of me?” It will be helpful to apprehend.
Unlike Angels and other creations, God said of Man, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:26-28 KJV) God made Man thoughtfully and decisively.
God’s decision, design and deployment existed before Man. Man was made to fit the template in God’s mind; so fearfully and wonderfully conceived and delivered, “…So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;… and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion”
What a privilege, a pride and glory to be God’s epic creation. Little wonder, Man became the natural target of God’s adversary the devil. The devil knew nothing (amongst all created) was dearest and most important to God as Man. The devil sought to painfully inflict God and damage His treasured possession – Man…but this was “intentional” that the seed of the Wo-man may bruise the head of the devil; that God’s epic art may terminate the sworn enemy very cheaply
Beloved, you and I were Intentionally created – not an accident in God’s course and in life’s event, we were made, called and chosen for glory and praise…as long as we have our being.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light 1 Peter 2:9.
