When God created everything that is, he made man in His image, uniquely different from every other living thing. Man is the only thing made this way, like Him. Why did he do this? There are perhaps many reasons, but one is in our purpose. We are made to manage.
Good designed the earth with many forms of life that follow natural laws. He defined the laws, the way things follow through generations, the way everything interacts.
I think of this much like a computer program. It runs, following the logic built in. It does predetermined things, according to its own logic. Each aspect of the program fulfils is purpose following the "rules" of logic. This is just like all forms of life having a purpose and being bound by natural laws of logic. Animals, plants, insects, bacteria, all these things follow the logic of earth's "program ".
And then there is man. Uniquely designed to manage all that is in his world. We are the manager, the zookeeper, the gardener, the supervisor. God made everything and put us in charge of it all. We have a free will, the ability to reason, the drive to be more than our own tiny person, and the proper to manage His things.
He didn't give us this planet as our own, no... He put is in charge of his things. They belong to God, not man. We are tasked with keeping things in order and prospering. Remember the parable of the talents? Look it up. To him is given much will much be required.... We, man, have been given the earth.
Every man, in his natural god given frame of mind, had a drive to own land. (own in the sense of having the ability to freely control). They is a deep instinct inside man. The size of land that we own, control, is part off the responsibility fulfilment of our commission. Whatever land each of us owns, it is our responsibility to see that it prospers during our life. They is our watch, or chance to show our father and creator what we will do with his stuff when left in charge. It is the original calling of man.
I give you no direction on HOW To succeed at this highest calling, but rather to impress upon you the gravity of the calling. This, all that we have, is HIS stuff and some day he is returning to reclaim it. What will He find with the portion that we had control over? That is the question! Each of us must answer individually.
The "stuff" I refer to its things like :
The land itself in an ecological sense.
The animals and plants under our control
The children he granted us
The time he grants us
The influence we enjoy
The capabilities we experience
On and on. Everything about life is temporary, a job, a calling. We don't own this for our own personal enjoyment, life isn't about being happy and finding as much pleasure or recreation possible, no.... Life is a job. We are created to watch over his things while he is "away".
What will you do with your day?
