LIVING THINGS

It was at point start God’s Dream for us to have Life and inhabit the Earth. However, it was not that much the eating of the fruit that was the major cause of man’s fall but rather submitting to Satan, a fallen being, cast down to the earth. He is as wicked as you can’t imagine and only sows discord and death; that’s his main desire.

So there are two protesting forces at work in our life: good versus evil.

In a vibrance and array of Life, God breathed into the earthen vessel and he, Adam, became a “Living Soul”. God had you in mind all along. He Breathed us into existence by His Spoken Word, The brilliance of His magnificence brought into existence the heavenly bodies, a kaleidoscope of unspeakable Glory, greatly to be esteemed and adorned, a force of Life beyond our reckoning.

Every living thing, whether the herb of the field, the fowl of the air, or the creatures of all a kind of land and sea, orchestrated by an unfathomable Mind and artist Creator. The intricacy of His poetic Hand at work.

The word amazing cannot in effect come close and fall short by long yard to even start to try to take in His Majestic creation.

He is simply incredible! There is no measure to His greatness!

I know in this article I am throwing a lot of realities and statistics in, but consider it sincerely; I put it in for a reason, because not everything is perfect. As sin entered the world, death, sickness, and disease kicked in.

The scope of this article is to hint at why we are here, even why we have been brought into this world. Many find it hard a task, and somewhere along the line we lose track of our very existence or even the purpose of our existence. I am more than sure there are many scriptures I can throw at you expressing your utter importance to God, but I won’t.

The very fact that you are reading this article proves to me that there is a plan at work in you; you are here for a “purpose”. To prove it more plainly, the ejaculation of a man is between 20 to 300 million sperm cells.

You are the only single one, seeing that only one mature egg (ovum) is released by the ovary. If a sperm cell fertilizes the egg in one of the fallopian tubes, it forms a zygote (a fertilized egg). The head of the sperm or “seed” is 5–6 micrometers in length and 2.5–3.5 micrometers in width.

A sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell in one of the fallopian tubes, forming a zygote. This process typically occurs within 24 hours after ovulation. The zygote begins to divide and travel down the fallopian tube toward the uterus. As it travels, the zygote develops into a morula, then a blastocyst, a hollow ball of cells.

The blastocyst implants in the lining of the uterus (endometrium), where it burrows into the uterine wall. This is a crucial step, as it marks the beginning of pregnancy.

Once implanted, the blastocyst develops into an embryo and later a fetus. The embryo receives nourishment and oxygen through the placenta, which forms after implantation.

Implantation triggers the release of pregnancy hormones, preventing the shedding of the uterine lining (menstruation). These hormones also support fetal development.

Pregnancy is divided into three trimesters: the first (weeks 1-12), second (weeks 13-27), and the third (weeks 28-40). Each trimester is marked by specific developmental milestones for the fetus and changes in the mother’s body.

After approximately 40 weeks of gestation, the baby is ready to be born through labor and delivery.

What are the odds that you are a mistake? Out of a count of up to 300 million seeds “sperms”, you just happen to be the “one” to discover the ovary. You are a miracle already before you even gasped your first breath with a loud cry.

Nicodemus, a pharisee came secretively to the Lord Jesus in the night hour and said: “I know that you are from God, for no one can perform these miracles lest God be with you, Jesus responded to Nicodemus: “Lest one be born again, one can not see the Kingdom of God”.

In no less the same, as much as we are birthed naturally, we must be born again Spiritually in order to obtain “eternal Life”.

I can prove in two words that the God of Abraham is the only means to life. When God planted Eden for Adam and Eve to indwell, The Lord gave Adam clear instructions as not to eat from the tree of “knowledge, good and evil, for in the day that they eat from it, they shall surely “die”. The Word Die in Hebrew is “Muth” which means: “In dying you shall surely die”

First a spiritual death and then a physical death.

When the Godhead gathered, they concluded to create man in their image “after” their “likeness”. The word likeness in Hebrew is “Demuth”. So then the opposite of “Demuth” is” Muth”, the opposite of death is found in the “likeness of God” and no other means. Eliminating and disproving all other false religions. This is mindblowing stuff because the only means to Life is found in the “likeness” or “Demuth” of God.

Jesus came with a clear message, one of life and that more in abundance. Jesus also says: “I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE” “No one comes unto the Father except through me.

Lazarus was dead for four days when Jesus brought him back to Life; God takes the dead things and makes them living things. At Lazaruz’s tomb, Jesus said: “I am the resurrection and the Life, thou ye were dead, yet shall ye live.”

Jesus’ ministry started at age 30, and He went about preaching the Good News, healing ALL who were sick and oppressed by the devil. It is by no chance that God want anyone to die or suffer.

He wants you to live.

People tend to live on eye level, in a vast cosmos, all in its majestic life-given cycling God sustaining produce in all “living things”. Many don’t actually realize we exist on a planet hanging in the middle of the universe, the epic center of God’s focal attention. Many are blindfolded to this reality.

The Earth fits approximately 1.3 million times inside the Sun’s volume. The moon fits 64 times into the Earth. This is by no mistake that it is or by sheer happenstance.

As noted in my previous article:

If the Sun were even slightly closer to Earth, the planet would experience a significant increase in temperature, leading to melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and potentially making large portions of the planet uninhabitable.

If the sun were slightly farther away, Earth would experience a significant cooling effect, potentially leading to an ice age, longer years, and a reduction in the amount of sunlight reaching our planet.

Let’s take the oxygen we breathe; it just happens to be the exact mixture of gases, primarily nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), with trace amounts of other gases like argon, carbon dioxide, and water vapor, to make it possible for life to prosper on earth

The Moon’s gravitational pull is the primary driver of tides, causing the oceans to bulge out on both the side closest to the Moon and the side farthest from it, creating high tides of the sea, while the areas in between experience low tides.

Butterfly metamorphosis, also known as complete metamorphosis, involves four distinct stages: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult, where the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly through a remarkable cellular breakdown and reorganization.

We could go according to chapter and verse of creation, but life is so evident in the tiniest of God’s creation, have you ever wondered that even in a praying mantis, the hard working ant, which is included in the 72 million insects worldwide, many of most has not even been fully documented at all, all of these has the life of God inside them, it blows me away.

The birdsong in the trees outside, a sincere marvel itself. The swallows migrate for thousands of miles in season, and when they return, they know exactly where their carefully crafted nest was crafted, a sincere marvel in itself.

One can impossibly fathom or even attempt to dissect the creation, seeing that this is a topic no one has the means in this lifetime or ever will fully ever take into grasp, but I can assure you, we are the epic crown of God’s creation.

God created the universe with us in mind. I tend to believe that all of creation, both celestial and earthly, has been created for our very “bridal” existence.

The creation, God breathed in sheer ecstasy, all with a plan of which we form part of the greater plan.

You are born with a purpose; you are not a mistake. If you are elderly and have children with grandchildren, you are even more blessed that from the fruit of your union, you have the sheer joy to see your children grow before you.

Something is either alive or dead. I will touch on the dead things, but for now, let’s consider the “living things”.

Before Noah in the Bible, it had not rained yet on the earth, yet he built an ark to fit its finest detail according to God’s instructions to housekeep the “living things” during the flood. God did not destroy the “living things”; no, he preserved them.

It took Noah approximately 100 years to construct the ark. Bystanders would scoff and mock him, making out as being crazy, yet it was only Noah and his family that were preserved to continue populating the earth.

And for the very epic first time, God gives us the Rainbow as a sign that He will never flood the earth again; it is a testament, a promise.

It is God’s will that you live and not die.

No one is really too much worried about the dead things, but rather that who are “living things”.

You are a living being.

In my limited capacity, I can’t even start to fathom what is happening in your body as you are busy reading this article. The words you read are projected through your eyes, picked up by the mind, and given to the soul. Ever heard the words “soul food”? Yes, it is a reality that you can feed your soul with meaningless things or good and virtuous things.

Let’s look at the seasons we experience in the 365-day cycle of a year. I must be honest; I always had more or less an idea when it would be cold or hot but did not pay closer attention to the matter.

Seasons are caused by the Earth’s axial tilt (approximately 23.5 degrees) as it orbits the sun, not by changes in Earth’s distance from the sun. This tilt causes different parts of the Earth to receive varying amounts of direct sunlight throughout the year, leading to the cyclical changes in temperature and daylight hours we know as seasons.

Season also then occurs when the Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted relative to its orbital plane around the sun. This means that the Earth is not standing perfectly upright as it orbits the sun, but rather at a slight angle.

Are you starting to get a clearer view of how amazing our God really is?

Life is not perfect. We live in a fallen world with diseases, untimely deaths, and the sorts. It is not God’s desire for anyone to suffer from any kind of infirmity. God never planned for anyone to die.

God says: “I set before you Life or death.” Then we find the Lord spurring us on to choose Life in the stead of death. Sometimes, plagues break out like the COVID-19 epidemic, which affected the entire World. This virus was cooked up in a lab in China (man-made) where they experimented with adding guano, making it more effective and fast spreading. These biological weapons are deadly and can destroy at record speed.

7,010,681 people have died so far from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of April 13, 2024, 01:00 GMT. There are currently 704,753,890 confirmed cases in 229 countries and territories. The fatality rate is still being assessed.

Life is so precious, yet so many suffer and hurt, some seriously sick, some broken apart by circumstance and in essence abuse and torment in life. One must understand that this world is in a fallen state.

I can impossibly address all a kind of creatures; however, let’s dissect a “flea”. So minute in its size yet caused the “Black Death,” referring to the devastating “bubonic plague pandemic” that swept through Europe in the mid-14th century (1346-1353), causing an estimated 25 to 75 million deaths.

The flea was spread by rodents such as rats. It was not as much the rat that was the problem; it was the tiny fleas.

And it was not just the fleas that were the problem; it was also the bacteria they deposited by a tiny bite.

And we can take this a little deeper; it is not that much the bacteria that is the problem at hand; it is the “germs” in the “DNA” of the bacteria carried by the sickness to the person, a microorganism, that can be deadly.

It is true that germs are evolutionary and can take on subtypes depending on the disease. The very first case of HIV/AIDS was only discovered in 1982, in South Africa. Before then, never heard or knew about it.

According to recent statistics, there are about 28 million people “infected” with this sexually transmitted disease in South Africa. According to Home Affairs, there are 64 million citizens living in South Africa, almost half of South Africa with HIV/AIDS, a sure death sentence.

In my own estimate, I would reckon that most of these HIV/AIDS infections are from premarital sex “sleeping around” and “rape” victims without God’s blessing on it.

Sadly, I have to add:

Between July and September 2023, 10 516 rapes were reported to the South African Police Service, almost the same as the 10 590 cases recorded in the same period last year.

Sexual predators are a reality, youngsters getting sodomized, and women getting raped, yes, it is Heartbreaking. In many of these cases women do get pregnant, how on planet Earth is one to explain this in mind that one might be alive because they are a rape case, at worst some or many are infected with HIV/AIDS as a result.

These victims of sex crimes are totally innocent. The predator is given to account for what he or she has done. Sadly, I have to conclude that these types of fratricides in the wildlife only occur amongst hyenas, no other species.

At worst, mostly more amongst our mankind.

Parents are never meant to bury their children or grandchildren; it is not God’s fault at all. How does one place this with God? Life happens and can be unfair. I must enlighten you that we have an adversary, “the devil,” whose job description is only to:

a.) kill

b.) steal

c.) destroy

The devil might try to swing this thing around and blame God for noted a, b, and c. Premature death is always a very sad scenario; some children hardly had a chance to live, leaving the family shattered, usually never to recover at all.

Remember that vow you made “in sickness and health, till death do us part” on your wedding day. And so it is a reality we can’t ignore, sickness is real, and death is real.

But I must encourage you, that there is a Life hereafter, either Heaven or Hell, sad to say. Coming back to Nicodemus’s discussion with The Lord, remember that Jesus said: “Lest one be born again, one cannot see the Kingdom of God”. Period.

It is not enough to exist only in a mortal state because our flesh shall perish; it is your Soul that is of greater importance here. Jesus Christ came with a clear mission and that is to save us from eternal demise. He knows full well the reality of Hell, in so much that He gave His Life of free will on the tree. Jesus said: “No one takes my life from me, I give it of my own accord”

I love the part where Jesus said to the Pharisees and Sadducees, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will make it rise again. Jesus said: “I have the power to lay down my life and the power to take it up again.

Your final destination is not 6 feet below; no, it is either Heaven or Hell.

He who believes in me “Jesus Christ” shall “NEVER DIE”.