What if we lived in a world as God originally intended it to be? What would such a world be like? What would our lives be like? Is it even possible to know? When God completed the original creation, “God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). What if it had stayed that way? How would God want us to be living our day by day lives in that perfect world?
But even living in the world as it is today, what if we could know how God wants us to be living? In every area of life?
After the Fall, after sin came into this world, since that time, everything God has done seems to have been motivated by His intention to restore us, to restore the original creation, to “redeem” us from the results of sin. He desires to restore us to a right and good relationship to Himself! That’s why He chose Abraham and his descendants, why He gave the nation of Israel the Ten Commandments and the Old Testament Law! That’s why He sent prophets! That’s why He sent Jesus to die on the cross and open the way for us to be restored! For our sins to be forgiven and overcome! To set us free from slavery to sin! That’s why Jesus promised to return! That’s why God sent the Holy Spirit, why He has offered to us the reality of being “born again”!
And at the end of all things as we know it, we are promised a new earth and a new society perfectly in line with God’s original intentions, a society of God’s own making and design, perfect in every way! And what’s more, you and I, all of us, have been provided an opportunity to live there forever! Hip, hip, hooray! And Hallelujah!
But until then, how are we supposed to live? How are we to relate to God, to ourselves, to the people around us, to the world as it is? What are we supposed to be doing? Do we know? Can we know? What if God wanted to tell us, to show us, to help us know the way He intends for us to be living day by day, now, in the world as it is? What if He wanted to tell us the proper way for us to conduct ourselves in every area of life? How would He tell us, show us; how would He go about making us know the way we ought to be living?
I’d suggest there are as least three ways He might do it. First, He could put within our human nature some sort of inclination toward Him, a tendency or inner knowledge of the way He has planned for us to live. Secondly, maybe He could simply come into our world as one of us, to show us personally what He wants us to know and do. He could demonstrate the way; He could actually be the “way” He has designed for us to live. And thirdly, He could have it all written down, so that His words could be read, discussed, studied, and translated into every language! Then everyone could have these words, this book from God. That book could be printed and passed on to each succeeding generation! His words would be applicable to every culture and every society and for every time period until the end of time, until His ultimate and final plan is completed and the new earth and heavens are brought into existence! What if!
Just so you know, God has done all three of those things! We have no real excuse for not living the way He wants us to…
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