Psalm 37:29
The righteous will inherit the earth,
And they will live forever on it.
What does God want for human beings?
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the beasts that move on the earth.
Isaiah 55:11
so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth; It will not return to me empty, but it will do what I want, and it will be prospered in that for which I sent it.
GOD created the first human couple with a wonderful purpose. I wanted Adam and Eve to live in a beautiful garden, have children, make the whole Earth a paradise and take care of the animals. And its purpose has not changed. That is what God wants for humanity
8 And the LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and put there the man he had formed. 9 And the LORD God caused every tree that was pleasing to the eye and good to eat to spring from the earth; likewise, in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And from Eden came a river to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four other rivers. 11 The name of the first is Piso; This is the one that surrounds the whole land of Havila, where there is gold. 12 The gold of that land is good; There are bdellium and onyx there. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon; This is the one that surrounds the land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is Tigris; This is the one that runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden, to cultivate it and take care of it.
In this land in which we live, we can still contemplate beauty. Even though the fall of man has brought a curse to the earth - the fact of those thorns and thistles it produces - there is still beauty in the world. Surely we all remember having been in wonderful places, where the exuberance of the vegetation that grows freely in huge variety of fruits is combined with huge waterfalls that descend to form large rivers, while birds and wild animals roam freely. Normally, these are places to which the hand of men driven by greed has not yet arrived, rather than by the impulse of progress. Imagine, for a moment, what the Garden of Eden will have been like.
It was not God's original intention for man to die. He had created him in his image and likeness. But here we see that the man was put to the test. He had a free will and this, like all privileges, always creates a responsibility. This is an axiomatic statement, which is always true. That human being who had been endowed with a free will, had to go through a test to determine if he would obey God, or not.
Some teachers of the Bible have suggested that the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was poisonous. On the contrary, I believe that it was the best fruit of the garden.
And God warned: "In the day that you eat from it, you will surely die." Remember that man is a trinity and that he would have to die in a triple way. Adam did not physically die until he reached an age of more than 900 years, after this incident. But God had told him, "The day you eat, you will surely die." Death means separation and Adam was separated from God spiritually from that moment when he ate that fruit.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may eat, but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die."
God had a purpose in placing man alone in that garden, for a period of time. It was to show him that he had a need, that he needed someone to be with him. Here he defines her as "a suitable helper". This was necessary to carry out the purpose of God who, as we have seen in chapter 1:28, wanted man and woman to be fruitful, to multiply and submit to the earth. This explains the phrase in verse 18, which says, "It is not good for a man to be alone." And then he says that he will provide "a suitable help". That is, someone with whom to dialogue and agree, with whom to have affinity, someone who complements him, that is, his other party. It is as if a man were an incomplete part, until he joins in marriage with a woman. This is an important consideration to keep in mind and it is God's purpose for man and woman.
the relationship and affinity of man with God, adoration for him, his communion with the Creator, his service and loyalty to him, the authority of man granted by God and social life in the presence of God. This is, then, the great purpose
Have you risen up without wanting to live?
Place your hand over your heart.
Do you feel that? It's called PURPOSE.
You are alive for a reason, because you must live and feel every moment, before the emotion of perceiving the wonder of the creation that surrounds us.
HE LOVES US AND THAT IS OUR GREATEST PURPOSE, TO LIVE IN THE LOVE OF THOSE WHO CREATED US, SO THAT HIS KINGDOM MOVES TOWARDS THE FULLNESS AND THE GREATNESS OF THE GREATEST LOVE, JESUS OF NAZARETH !!!