Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

You should find out what God has qualified you for, then ask for that. If you receive more than you are qualified for, then what you receive may well disqualify you because you‘re not prepared for it. So God placed the male in Eden in order to prepare him. Yet, as we‘ll see, the man couldn‘t even handle the Garden. Imagine if he had had the whole earth to begin with! It‘s dangerous to ha ve everything, all at once. I thank God for the process He uses in our lives. God doesn‘t just promote us. He qualifies us for promotion. Our question of Him should not be, ―God, when will you promote me?‖ but ―God, am I ready for pr o motion?‖ The third thing that determines a man‘s purpose is his assignment. Assignment means a task or something that has been entrusted to you to do. The responsibilities with which God has entrusted the male are very clear, and they indicate his purpose. What God gave Adam to do still holds true for men today because God is a God of purpose and has a rea son for everything He does. He is teaching us His plan for mankind in the account of Creation. “The L ORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the L ORD God com manded the man” (Gen. 2:15 – 16). Whom did the Lord com mand? He commanded the male-man. What did He tell him? “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die” (vv. 16 – 17). The male, being first, received all the information, all the revelation, all the communication from God. God wanted him to be the ini tial recipient of His plan for mankind. He showed him the whole Garden, the whole environment of Eden, a vision of everything He had created, and then He gave him instruc tions for living. The female wasn‘t formed until after the events of the above Scripture passage. Therefore, the male received all 3. The Male’s A ssignment Visionary and Leader

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