God's Ultimate Design: Part 2 - Complication of The Original

In the first piece of the “Ultimate Design” series of posts that I wrote, I addressed how important it is to recognize that the ultimate of God’s design is life. (Click here to read the first part of this series before you proceed with this entry) 

 God designed man and woman to bring forth life and serve Him on the earth that He created. “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…”  Gen. 1: 27-28. I would like to make note that the purpose of this series is to point to God’s original design. I am not going to waste a lot of precious energy debating the angles of this scripture, and the point that I’m trying to get across. I realize that there has been much that has taken place since the earth consisted of two human beings, and since then there has been an over abundance of human life and some would argue that there is an over population of human beings. This is not my point. If you choose to view what I write from this angle, you will miss what I’m trying to communicate to you. I pray that what I communicate to you will be heard by your heart on some level.

 

 May I point out that with time has come knowledge, but with that knowledge and time has come a complication and a perversion of the beautiful simplicity of the original master piece and plan. I visualize this concept as a painting. Have you ever seen an artist paint on a canvas, and at some point you feel like the beauty of that piece cannot simply be added to? But just a few seconds later, the artist adds some texture and technique to the sky and trees, and you realize how wrong you were. On the flip side of this visual, have you ever seen a painting or a picture that is simply too “busy”? There is far too much detail, color, and action in the piece of art that you don’t know where it starts, where it ends and what the real purpose of it is?

  

As Christians, we know that the beauty that we experience on this earth is only a teeny, tiny peek and reflection at the unfathomable beauty of our eternal home in heaven. In the same breath, I believe that it is safe to say that due to sin, there has been great complication and perversion of God’s beauty on this earth. And although there is beauty in a great many things on this earth, I once again point you to the beauty of God’s ultimate design: human life.

Yesterday I had the privilege of watching the new movie “Lincoln”, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Fields. Many positive feelings flooded through me as I left the theater  but one thing rang very clearly in my spirit, and that is the fact that our country was founded on the word of God and principles/values that have been and continue to be, washed down the drain. In order to gain order in this chaos, to have a world in which our children can live and have relationships in with a decrease of divorce, and to remain strong in the fact that we are God’s children, we have to go back to the foundation of Christ. We have to pray to God to remove the brainwashing of the ways of the world and hold strong and true to the one thing that has never changed since the beginning of time: The ultimate truth of God’s love, faithfulness and plan for His children.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that something isn't working in this world and that people desire change. It reminds me of a woman that has recently entered my life that is searching for truth and is hungry to find the missing piece in her heart. She has tried the ways of the world, the universalism faith concept of “all roads lead to heaven” and has still found herself in a place of confusion. We will all be confused until we have Christ.  If we strip Christ out of God’s ultimate design of life, we will have confusion. It’s as simple or as complicated as that.