Today I’m going to talk about environment. The word environment is defined as the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu. If you read the first few chapters of Genesis you will see that God created certain environments for certain creations. We must cherish our environments and make sure no foreign elements contaminate or remove us from our environment. If that takes place, bad stuff happens. Let’s look at 3 illustrations of that.
First let’s look at the rose. Did you know that there are roses in the United States that are 250 years old. These roses are this old because they are living in the environment God prepared for them, their rose bushes. If you introduce shears to the rose bush and take a rose out of its prepared environment, it’ll die in about a week and a half. Why? Because the rose isn’t prepared to survive any where except for the place that was created for it.
Let’s look at fish. In the sea, ocean, river, lake, its prepared environment, fish thrive. A goldfish can live anywhere from 10 to 30 years in its prepared environment. Once a foreign element such as a fishermen’s net is introduced into that environment and the fish unbeknownst are not swims into that net and the fisherman swoops it up and places it in a fish bowl, which though it is water, is not the goldfish’s prepared environment, it’ll live for what a few weeks usually?
Now let’s look at man. If you look at Gen. 2:8 you’ll see where it says God placed the man He made there. Eden was our prepared environment. What makes Eden any different than any other garden? Well it says in Gen 3:8 “And they heard the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day.” God was there. God’s presence was a part of the environment in Eden. I’m just going to say that God’s presence was the environment in Eden. God’s presence is our prepared environment. Most of us know the events that took place there. The serpent contaminates the environment and because of that Adam and Eve were kicked out. Once they were kicked out of their prepared environment they immediately began to die. If you look throughout you’ll notice that through the ages people began to die younger and younger. Methuselah lived for 969 years, chances are we won’t make it to 110. Could it be because as the generations progressed, so has the separation from our prepared environment, God’s presence, progressed? Have you ever been feeling not so well, started worshipping God, got into His presence, and started feeling better? I sure have. Could the reason be that, in that moment of time we were back in our prepared environment? So my challenged to you is to get back into our prepared environment as often as you can, and take note, see how being in the presence of God affects your life, watch the healing, watch the blessing, watch your quality of life increase.
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Halleluyer Kimmlee! In all seriousness, I love the blog and fully agree that when we are out of God’s element, we truly are no different than aliens of another world trying to make sense of all around us that wasn’t meant to make sense to US anyway.
Love IT!!!
I think your post brings great practical clarity as to the reason for reconciliation between God and man.
Today, we may think aloud, “Why do we need to be back in relationship with God?” You help us understand the reason. Thank you!
“Have you ever been feeling not so well, started worshipping God, got into His presence, and started feeling better?” – Yes, yes, yes! ‘I Will Rejoice’ by William Murphy/Nicole Binion does it for me every single time! I recall a day when I was in so much pain. I had this song on repeat and after singing it about 20 times it finally clicked, I will rejoice and BE GLAD! No matter what’s going on. You just brought back that sweet moment. Thanks!!