Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

God’s Purpose fo r the Male

Here‘s the significance: God never intended for Adam to move from the Garden. He intended for the Garden to move over the earth. God wanted Adam to take the presence of the Garden and spread it through out the world. This is what He meant when He told Adam to have dominion over the earth. This is still God‘s purpose. As it says in Isaiah 11:9, “The earth will be full of the knowledge of the L ORD , as the waters cover the sea.” Adam could fulfill this purpose only if he was in constant communion with the God of the Garden. If a man is not living in the presence of God, he might be moving, but he is not really functioning. Outside the pres ence of God, he‘s a dangerous, uncontrolled beast. Paul said that a man without God is a creature without conscience. (See Romans 1:28 –32.) You can‘t trust the perspective of a man who doesn‘t know God. You cannot totally trust the perspective of one who is just beginning to get to know God either, because he‘s still getting used to the Presence. It is only by continually being in God‘s presence that our minds and hearts can be renewed. We need to learn to walk “in step with the Spirit” (Gal. 5:25), rather than in step with our own ideas about life. As the prophet Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can under stand it?” (Jer. 17:9). The problem with many of us men is that we think we don‘t need God when, in fact, He‘s the first thing we need. I‘m amazed when I observe men trying to make it without God. They may appear to be making it, but they aren‘t. They‘re not fulfilling their true purpose. Often, the ―making it‖ is just an external face they put on to keep people from seeing the way things really are. If you knew what was truly going on in their lives, you‘d know they weren‘t making it. We should never doubt our need of God. What was the first thing that God gave the male? He didn‘t give him a woman, a job, or even a command; He gave him His pres ence. God didn’t intend for Adam to move from the Garden. He intended for the Garden to move over the earth.

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