“Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence. Flora and fauna exist first and foremost not for human use or enjoyment but for God’s pleasure.”
Rodney Clapp
Just as the world was crafted especially for man, man was fashioned and placed into the world for a specific role and purpose. Creation, as spectacular as it is, was not the apex of God’s creative work. The heavens and earth were but a setting to display the wonder or wonders of God’s work.
The intensity of this anticipation and delight is reflected by the threefold usage of the Hebrew word, bara, (created), in Genesis 1:27. The poetic structure of this sentence attests to the incredible emotion of wonder and joy that God had in creating man. The whole stage was now set. Now He was ready to place something entirely different and wonderful onto center stage. The world awaited the one who would bear the image of the invisible God. The creation awaited the arrival of Man!
This is the ultimate purpose of the creation – to demonstrate His glory. God is purposeful. He designed the world for life, learning, joy and as a capital.
Rodney Clapp
Just as the world was crafted especially for man, man was fashioned and placed into the world for a specific role and purpose. Creation, as spectacular as it is, was not the apex of God’s creative work. The heavens and earth were but a setting to display the wonder or wonders of God’s work.
The intensity of this anticipation and delight is reflected by the threefold usage of the Hebrew word, bara, (created), in Genesis 1:27. The poetic structure of this sentence attests to the incredible emotion of wonder and joy that God had in creating man. The whole stage was now set. Now He was ready to place something entirely different and wonderful onto center stage. The world awaited the one who would bear the image of the invisible God. The creation awaited the arrival of Man!
"So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
man and female he created them."Genesis 1:27
This is the ultimate purpose of the creation – to demonstrate His glory. God is purposeful. He designed the world for life, learning, joy and as a capital.
Excerpt from More Than Money
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In Christ,
Dan Wooldridge
President, InsideWork
Author, More than Money