{"id":2500,"date":"2020-11-13T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2020-11-13T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:07:01","slug":"devotion-genesis-126-31-one-land-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Genesis 1:26-31 One Land To Live In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genesis 1:26-31<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Then God said, \u201cLet us\u00a0make mankind\u00a0in our image,\u00a0in our likeness,\u00a0so that they may rule\u00a0over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,\u00a0over the livestock and all the wild animals,\u00a0and over all the creatures that move along the ground.\u201d\u00a0 27\u00a0So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God\u00a0He created them; male and female\u00a0He created them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/span>28\u00a0God blessed them and said to them,\u00a0\u201cBe fruitful and increase in number;\u00a0fill the earth\u00a0and subdue it. Rule over\u00a0the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.\u201d\u00a0 29\u00a0Then God said, \u201cI give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.\u00a0 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground\u2014everything that has the breath of life\u00a0in it\u2014I give every green plant for food.\u201d And it was so.\u00a0 31\u00a0God saw all that he had made,\u00a0and it was very good.\u00a0And there was evening, and there was morning\u2014the sixth day.<\/i><\/p>\n

Genesis 2:5-18<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden\u00a0to work it and take care of it.\u00a016\u00a0And the\u00a0Lord\u00a0God commanded the man, \u201cYou are free to eat from any tree in the garden;\u00a017\u00a0but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,\u00a0for when you eat from it you will certainly die.\u201d\u00a0\u00a018\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Genesis 2:20-24<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.\u00a0\u00a0But for Adam\u00a0no suitable helper\u00a0was found.<\/i><\/span>\u00a021\u00a0So the\u00a0<\/span>Lord<\/span>\u00a0God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;\u00a0and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man\u2019s ribs\u00a0and then closed up the place with flesh.<\/span>\u00a022\u00a0Then the\u00a0<\/span>Lord<\/span>\u00a0God made a woman from the rib\u00a0He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man.\u00a0\u00a023\u00a0The man said, \u201cThis is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called\u00a0\u2018woman,\u2019 for she was taken out of man.\u201d 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united\u00a0to his wife, and they become one flesh.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, when time was still new, the Lord God created a magnificent world that was stunning and wondrous in in its beauty and was magnificent beyond comprehension in its creation and mysterious in its operation.\u00a0\u00a0He made it for His Beloveds, whom were not yet created, but whom He had known and seen in an eternity before.\u00a0\u00a0He made the world exactly for them.<\/p>\n

Within the world He blessed a specific part of the land to be the place where His first two Beloveds would live, where they would call home.\u00a0\u00a0He filled it with the beautiful and magnificent animals of the earth, both big and small.\u00a0\u00a0In the garden land He placed every beautiful flower, magnificent tree, and luscious and sweet fruit.\u00a0\u00a0Because of the plants and fruit the scent in the garden was always fresh, always sweet, and always aromatic to delight His Beloveds.<\/p>\n

At just the right time, the Lord God created Adam, and then, in a most loving gesture, He created Eve from one of Adam\u2019s ribs.\u00a0\u00a0Now this paradise for God\u2019s Beloveds was complete.\u00a0\u00a0It had every delightful joy for the Beloveds and was topped with the gift of Eve to Adam and Adam to Eve.\u00a0\u00a0Yet what perfected the Garden was that God walked, talked and fellowshipped with them in the Garden.\u00a0\u00a0How perfect!\u00a0\u00a0Oh how wonderful! How precious beyond everything else!<\/p>\n

As in every land, this Garden had boundaries.\u00a0\u00a0And as with every land it had rules.\u00a0\u00a0Since Adam and Eve were pure of heart and na\u00efve to evil, there was only one rule.\u00a0\u00a0There was a variety of food and they could eat a different fruit every day for over five years without repeating the eating any of one type of fruit.\u00a0\u00a0They had an endless supply of fresh and cool water.\u00a0\u00a0The climate was perfect.\u00a0\u00a0The animals were obedient, submissive, kind and loving.\u00a0\u00a0Because Adam and Eve were pure in heart, God gave them only one rule, out of all the fruit in the Garden they must not eat from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.\u00a0\u00a0As a blessing and protection He gave them this rule and even told them why He gave it to them.\u00a0\u00a0It was a protection for them.\u00a0\u00a0If they ate it, they would change their reality, they would put themselves out of the plan and will of God for their lives.\u00a0\u00a0They were made to live forever as they ate from the tree of life in the Garden, which made them able to live forever without ever being sick, or getting old, or being disabled.\u00a0\u00a0Their minds and bodies would remain in perfect condition in the Garden.\u00a0\u00a0And in the Garden, in their special land given by God, they would be in continual fellowship with God.\u00a0\u00a0So God warned them, because He loved them, to not eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If they did, they would be outside of the plan and will of God.\u00a0\u00a0And if outside the will of God, then the consequence would be that they would be outside the Garden, outside the boundaries of the land that God had created just for His Beloveds.\u00a0\u00a0God wanted them to live always and forever live in paradise.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Adam and Eve chose to believe the serpent rather than God.\u00a0\u00a0They ate from the forbidden fruit and therefore were forced to leave the perfect paradise and go out into the wild.\u00a0\u00a0The wild was a place where hurt and heartache dwelt it knew nothing of the perfect harmony of the Garden.\u00a0\u00a0For the rest of their lives Adam and Eve mourned over their decision to believe anything or anyone more than God.\u00a0\u00a0They longed to return to the Garden.<\/p>\n

Over the thousands of years since Adam and Eve had to leave the Garden of Eden the Lord God has remained faithful to all of His Beloveds.\u00a0\u00a0He has spoken them to them to guide them back to Him and to keep them safe.\u00a0\u00a0He had promised them that a day would come when they could return to a paradise like Eden, only greater.\u00a0\u00a0He continuously spoke to all His Beloveds to tell them that in the spirit is a land that is greater than the Garden of Eden.\u00a0\u00a0It is a land of being in God\u2019s presence once again.\u00a0\u00a0A land where God will keep them in His love, His peace and His joy even as the walk through a hostile world.\u00a0\u00a0This new paradise, this new land, is barren of need, hurt and loss.\u00a0\u00a0The Lord God Almighty, through His Son Jesus, made a way to this new land which is within the world, but not of it, just like Eden was within the world, but not of it.\u00a0\u00a0Like God wanted His Beloveds to live eternally with Him in the Garden land, He wants all that are now His Beloveds, to live in this spiritual land for all eternity.\u00a0\u00a0He has given everything that His Beloveds need so that they never will fall from this spiritual land as Adam and Eve fell from Eden.\u00a0\u00a0He has created us to live in this land that is not dependent on the strength and will of His Beloveds, but on the strength of will of God Himself.\u00a0\u00a0So His Beloveds can live in paradise even as the world surrounds them.\u00a0\u00a0His Beloveds live in the world but are not of the world.\u00a0\u00a0They, as Adam and Eve once did, now walk and talk with God Almighty. Even more, God has placed His Holy Spirit within them so that they never forget that they are the Beloved of God and He is always with them.<\/p>\n

God has also given the children of Adam and Eve one rule.\u00a0\u00a0The rule is to humble themselves in love and honor of Jesus, who died to save them.\u00a0\u00a0That is the one rule.\u00a0\u00a0Live in that rule, and stay in His spiritual land that He wants all to live in.\u00a0\u00a0If anyone does not live within that rule they will not be allowed to live in His land for His Beloveds, just as the rebellious Adam and Eve were not allowed to stay in the Garden land.\u00a0\u00a0It was the choice He gave to Adam and Eve.\u00a0\u00a0It is the choice He gives to everyone still.\u00a0\u00a0God\u2019s Beloveds, choose God through Jesus and forever live in the land where we have His love, peace and joy.\u00a0\u00a0All to the pleasure, honor, and glory of God!\u00a0\u00a0Praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/p>\n

Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genesis 1:26-31\u00a0–\u00a0Then God said, \u201cLet us\u00a0make mankind\u00a0in our image,\u00a0in our likeness,\u00a0so that they may rule\u00a0over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,\u00a0over the livestock and all the wild animals,\u00a0and over all the creatures that move along the ground.\u201d\u00a0 27\u00a0So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God\u00a0He…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[1865,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-genesis","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}