More Than a Job Description

Get ready, cause we’re about to go deep. Get your scuba gear on, straighten up your goggles, pop your ears, and let’s dive in.

So, we’re not made to be civilians. I hope we’ve all established that by now.

First of all, how are we made to be more than civilians?

Time to whip out some Bible. “I whip my Bible back and forth,” figuratively.

Genesis 1:27-28- “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

There it is, the job description. He made us, blessed us, and then commissioned us. He created the human race, something completely unique, for a unique purpose. Angels, spirits, and animals, could not perform this task. We are called to fill the earth and subdue it. Ahh, what a MASSIVE calling. The Human Race, called to administer God’s administration. Remember the theme verse…

No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him."

2 Timothy 2:4

Our commanding officer, has imparted himself to us, and delegated a task to us. We have a duty.

Ope, I said the word duty.

I don’t even like that word. Not only can it be easily mistaken with “doody,” but its connotations make my face cringe. I’ve had duties before. My mom used to give me a chore chart every day when I was a kid. I hated the chore chart. Every morning I had to look at that list of fun-killing chores, and I couldn’t do anything I wanted to do until they were done. I fought my mom every day on that list. I rebelled against the chore chart, because I just wanted to have fun. But oh how “duty” doodied all over my fun.

Apparently it’s way to late to be writing a blog post.


I don’t think God was just giving us a chore list though.

We were made in God’s very image, in his like-ness. And I’m pretty sure God loves to do what God wants to do. God doesn’t drag his feet. He loves doing His work on the planet, and loves doing it through us. I truly believe, we also love what God wants us to do.

In Genesis, after God commissioned the Human Race, he followed it with creating the Garden of Eden. He set Adam and Eve up in a utopian garden, calling them to source from the Tree of Life. They lived off the Tree of Life.

The Bible points to the Tree of Life as Jesus Christ.

God set the Human Race with a job description, but also set them up with an abounding life source, the Tree of Life, who is Jesus Christ.

This is why Paul in Phillipians 3 can write:

“Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.”

Paul, your nuts. You mean everything is rubbish to you? All the good food, fun games, pretty women, just trash to you? How is that so?

Paul was sourcing from the Tree of Life, Jesus Christ himself. Paul was a worker for the Lord, and he followed God’s original Genesis 1 commission closely. He filled the earth and subdued it, but it sourced out of “the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord!”

Sourcing from Jesus is the absolute best thing for us! We were wired to eat from the Tree of Life. This John Piper quote explains it well…

 “He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”

We will walk out the Human Race destiny in Genesis 1 when we are most satisfied in Christ. He has wired us to be overwhelmingly fulfilled by Himself! Our job is not just a duty anymore, it’s an outpouring of the glorious “Life” inside of us.

Ephesians 1:18- “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people”

The hope to which he has called us, and the riches of his glorious inheritance is Jesus Christ himself.

I pray this verse over every reader of this blog, over myself, and over the church of God.

 

I tell you, God has created you to be more than a civilian, and it is the absolute best thing for you.

Peace.