What is Spirituality? Is it a question for answer or it is rhetoric? Well, we wish to answer from the first man perspective,
From the beginning, bible
tells us the very state of the first man and woman to ever walk on the surface
of this earth. They were made in God`s likeness, they have dominion, power and
authority. They control the whole earth and all that is in it. Man was created
to rule. The animals feared and obeyed him; even the most veracious of them
all. God actually promised them that their fear would be on all the animals. In
fact, if an animal rpars at you today, it is not because it thinks it is
superior. It does it out of fear to scare you away so that the fear of you
should leave it. See what the bible say.
Genesis 1:26 "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.
27 So God created man
in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
28 And God blessed
them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said,
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
meat.
30 And to every beast
of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the
earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so".
What is Spirituality? Again... What does Adam do?
The well-being of the
whole garden, both beasts and herbs were under his total control.
Genesis 2:15 "And the LORD
God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it".
Adam is supposed to dress
and keep the garden in that, he is given the mandate to decide on how to design
the garden and also keep it safe. Nowadays, we humans are the ones who decide
how to keep our planet earth. When there are wars, places get destroyed and it
is all as a result of our actions and inactions. Recently, there have been
campaigns hoped at planting more trees to improve vegetation in some parts of
the world. All these are actions man has put in place to both keep and dress it
or destroy it. Glory be to God that upon all the negative effects some of our
actions may cause to earth, He still allows it to regain its nature after a
while even if not fully.
What is Spirituality? He gave an identity to things. Whatever you call, that thing becomes.
He is the one that named
all things. Even today, God still reserves that authority to man that anything
that we discover anew, any name that the one who discovers it gives it remains
its name.
Gen 2:20 "And Adam
gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the
field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him".
There were no lorries,
aeroplanes, ships, computers and a whole lots of things in the days of Adam,
but man have a name for all those things newly discovered in this present days
because we also move in that mandate given to Adam by God.
If you call a headache death, it results in death, Be careful of how you name things.
Man in his spiritual
state has a lot of authority and power. Adam by virtue of being in the spirit
has this great control over animals, herbs and the earth as a whole including
the devil. This is the mandate that God has given to all mankind, and it is in
this authority must we live.
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