The Function of Man

These are just some personal thoughts of mine and ponderings.  Make of it what you will but hopefully it will challenge you to look more closely at your life to evaluate what things must be changed. I have been trying to do this and I see things in my life I realize I would never want in the life of my children...and if I don't change how can I expect them not to inherit these actions and attitudes that I portray in front of them day after day.

 So to my pondering...
If humans were created to tend the garden and walked with God daily I am assuming that was our original function... the function of man.

So then, knowing that satan always creates a counterfeit, what can we suppose then other than that through sin we tend the "creations" of the devil and have communion with him?

When  we use our brains the electrical impulses that go back and forth dig grooves in the actual tissue of tthe brain.  The more we use a specific thought path the deeper the groove goes. Then, if we stop using it, it slowly starts filling back in. 

I would like to, if I could, liken this to our spiritual walk. The more we commune with God the "spiritual grooves" are dug deeper and wider, thus making the path towards God that much easier to follow. If we neglect that spiritual relationship then the pathway slowly starts to fill in and if we wait too long before we come back to God we have some trouble finding the way because the path is no longer well defined.

Likewise anything we do that is worldly (not of God) in my opinion is the devil's counterfeit. So as we tend satan's plans and commune with him (knowingly or unknowingly) our spirit is marked with paths that lead us unwittingly straight to hell. As we focus on these, the pathways to God grow fainter. 

In the garden when Adam ad Eve sinned they gave satan permission to overwrite their original purpose...so our original purpose is still there hidden deep beneath our sin nature. We already have hose grooves in our spirit, because of our sin, that lead us to satan. We are born with them because we are born into sin. (Not to discount that a child beneath the age of accountability sin unwittingly and is not held accountable)

So then our purpose becomes to discover our purpose. The thing which God first created us for. To worship Him, to commune with Him, to work for Him. (Granted there is much more than I understand still waiting for me to discover)

Along these thought lines, however, lets examine ourselves to see what there is in our life that might unwittingly qualify us as working for the enemy and communing with him. Messiah told us that anyone who is not for Him is against Him... so anything in this world that is not for God is against God. Whether they are willingly working for satan or unwittingly enslaved by their own actions that give satan a legal right to work through their lives.

Lets get rid of any legal right satan might have to our lives. If we lust does that not give the enemy legal right to work sexual immorality in our lives? If we are angry without cause and enter into a fit of rage does that not give the enemy a legal right to work hatred and murder in our life? 

Maybe if we play a computer game that just has a few questionable things? Perhaps it's a book or movie... anything that is not of God... if it is of satan gives satan that legal right.

So strive for that original function God created for us! Don't fall for the counterfeit and I'll be talking to God about showing me how to do the same in my life. ;)  

Shalom.  Peace be with you all!