![]() ![]() Just as rivers went out of the garden, so life and abundance were to extend beyond the garden as well. Adam was to follow his Maker’s example as a sub-creator. The trajectory of creation was not for the garden to remain an isolated oasis and for the rest of the world to remain untamed wild lands. He was made to care for the garden, to prune the trees, gather the fruit, plant seedlings, fertilize, weed, and extend the bounty and beauty of the garden to transform the surrounding wilderness. God made man to work, and man will never be happy or fulfilled so long as he remains idle. ![]() Work is not a result of the Fall it is a creational ordinance. It is a new creation, a covenantal unity in which those who were formerly two are now one by grace.Īdam was given two responsibilities as the lord of creation. Marriage does not involve the union of two individuals. In order to be married, he must first be broken, broken open, torn apart, so that from brokenness, new wholeness may be created. He must fall asleep, the kind of sleep from which he will never awake on his own-he must be awakened, raised, by the Lord. ![]() The man who comes to be married must first die. But in the Bible, death is always followed by resurrection, judgment gives birth to salvation, and the inglorious and perishable is transformed into glory and imperishability. There is no shortage of jokes that have been made to illustrate that point. It will not be surprising to many worldlings that marriage is a type of death. Marriage is an act of death and resurrection. ![]()
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