Friday, March 29, 2019

Dallas Willard Daily Devotional, March 29, 2019

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We Were Created for a Purpose

The biblical perception of the simultaneous magnificence and triviality of the human creature comes squarely and firmly to rest in the Bible's account of our origin. People were, for all their physical dimensions, made to be like God, and in that likeness they were made to exercise lordship, care, and supervision over the zoological creation. As Genesis 1:26 explains, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."

So humankind's job description is clearly stated. We were not designed just to live in mystic communion with our Maker, as so often suggested. Rather, we were created to govern the earth with all its living things – and to that specific end we were made in the divine likeness.

From The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives. Copyright © 1988 by Dallas Willard. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.


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