
Author
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
Summary: God created the universe and everything in it, including humanity. He gave us authority to rule over creation, but when we sinned and disobeyed Him, we fell into darkness and separation from God. However, God still cares for us and imparts salvation through Christ Jesus. Despite our smallness in the universe, we are called to be stewards of all things and submit to God's authority. Sin is our great problem as it leads to the destruction of ecology, but Jesus Christ is the Lord of creation who humbled Himself to give us the benefit of redemption and make us heirs of all things. God created man for His own glory and all creation bears witness to that glory.
Have you ever thought, in your condition as a human being, in the place you occupy in the universe in the face of the immensity and majesty of the one who created the world from nothing? Have you thought about how insignificant we seem in the concert of so much wonder drawn by the voice and finger of God? The first verse of the Bible answers all the questions of the philosophy of all times in his fruitless search for the origin of everything that exists. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1.1.) And created man and woman and gave them authority to rule over all creation. When man erred in the direction he should take by the authority given by God, he disobeyed and fell into the dark abyss of sin and separation from God. Man forgot that the supreme authority is God, who did everything for his glory.
The Lord of history, the creator, perfect and redeemer of the world, put his eyes on man, cares about his relationship with Him (Ps 8: 8-8), speaks to us, exalts us, fills us with favors and as if this It was not enough, the God of eternity imparts to man, the crown of his creation, salvation in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 8 is an exaltation of God, creator of all wonders, who cares about his creation and more about man; a weak, forgetful, proud, disobedient being. Still, the Lord dignifies him, gives him authority, makes him stewards of all things, and makes us responsible for taking care of them. Despite our smallness in the universe, he reminds us that we must be like children to walk by his side and achieve victories in the spiritual life, that the humility of the heart of man is entirely to his liking and that, above all else, we are subject to his authority because he is the owner and Lord of all creation. On this submission to the will of the Lord, will depend the spiritual sense of stewardship that we are mandated to administer all things in his name.
The prophet who most clearly envisioned the Messiah who was to come, his birth, his death and his coming glory, portrays us in a simple verse: “… every mortal is like grass, and all his glory like the flower of the field” ( Is 40.6 NIV). In the next verse he clarifies that the grass dries up and the flower withers. Despite this, the Lord exalts sinful man because he loves us, promises us heaven that we could never have won with our efforts, and amazes us with the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus.
We are not the result of an arbitrary circumstance, nor an entity generated by chance. God crowned his creation with our creation. He molded the clay with his hands and brought it to life with his breath. "And God saw all that he had made, and behold, it was very good." Yes, we are part of that whole that God made and therefore, before him we are good, although weak as the flower of the field. Sin is our great problem because it works in favor of the contempt and prejudice of creation.Ecology is being destroyed by sinful man and the Christian cannot remain indifferent.
Jesus Christ is the Lord of creation, who did not consider being equal to God, but rather stripped himself of his glory, made himself similar to man and humbled himself to death (Phil 2) to give this humanity, the fragile and inconsistent human being , the benefit of redemption and making us heirs, together with Him, of all things created and to be created. "Now, in these last times, he has spoken to us through his Son, through whom he created the worlds and whom he has made heir to all things" (Heb 1.2)
God created man for his own glory and all creation bears witness to that glory that man touches with his hands by allowing Christ to enter his life. He is a close and personal God, and you are his glory!
God bless you!
Suggested Reading: Psalm 8