Genesis 2:4-17 Another Look @ Man and Woman

As Adam lay lifeless, never having experienced life, God breathed life into His nostrils, establishing man’s place as humbly created by a Sovereign Creator. As the nations lay lifeless, unable to experience life because of sin, God breathed life into their nostrils by sending His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We may think it obvious that without God, Adam had no chance of making the transformation from dust to life. But we, in our sin, are in an even more desolate and hopeless situation than Adam. Rather than just ceasing to exist, in our sin we exist as enemies of God, fully deserving of the wrath that He pours out on unrighteousness, because unrighteousness suppresses the truth. But Christ, our perfect Righteousness, bore that wrath fully on the cross. Christ, the perfect Truth, gives us a hope of eternal glory as He shares with us… “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.” Let this humble us. Let this create in us a great passion to whole-heartedly seek to put on display that beauty and glory of our Sovereign Creator.