One of the keys to achievement is a willingness to hang on to your hopes and dreams. Believe that the future you see for yourself will happen. In the process of pursuing our dreams things sometimes go wrong. Rather, things do not happen the way we desire they should. When this occurs, some people decide to give up on their dreams.
Today I want to encourage you to hang in there and do not give up on your dreams. The thought of giving up is a natural response when things do not seem to be turning out the way you desire them to turn out. Let us look at God as he dealt with the crown jewel of his creation.
“ 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.” Gen1:26-31
This created being would have complete authority over the rest of the creation. If God gave this created being this kind of authority. We can assume that God intended that man would be in steadfast harmonious fellowship and relationship with him. However, that was not the case man did not maintain a harmonious fellowship and relationship with God.
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth… But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” Gen 6:5-7
Was the Lord considering doing away with the special gem of his creation? We see from the scripture passage that God contemplated being done with man. Giving up on the whole idea of mutual love and fellowship between creator and the created. Thinking about giving up is different from giving up.
Why didn’t God give up? He recognized that before he created man, he had already put in place a solution to the problem.
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” Eph 1:4-6
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 1Pet 1:18-20.
Though God had anticipated what a man created with free will do, and even though he knew he had provided a solution, yet he considered doing away with man.
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