We were made for the praise and glory of our Creator, that we might truly know God our creator, love him with all our heart, and live with him in eternal happiness. We praise God for our redemption in Christ because it is that redemption that enables us to love and know the Lord. In turn, this should move us to glorify Him in what we say, do, think, and feel.
Our original vocation as human beings was to rule and reign over the earth in righteousness. Apart from Christ, we are incapable of obeying God as He commands, but the reflections of beauty, goodness, and truth we still see in humanity, flawed as it is, testify that we still bear God's image even if it is now broken. In redemption, the Lord is restoring this image and enabling us to take dominion in righteousness.
So although the fallen descendants of Adam come into the world with a depraved nature incapable of obeying the Lord, God did not create our first parents as sinners.Instead, Adam and all those in him lost the ability to please our Creator when they believed the Serpent's lie (Gen. 3). Today, human beings remain images of God, but we are marred images that do not, on our own, fulfill our original vocation.
Coram Deo~ Living before the face of God
Talbletalk January 2012
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