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 GOD'S PROVISION

For just a moment, think of as many different animals as you can. So many species of birds, mammals, fish, insects, bugs and slugs.

Now step back and see how God, in creating all these creatures, has provided to each and every one the perfect habitat in which they can flourish. They are not all the same. God's creativity is eternally "off the scale", not random, but exquisite! 

God created you. The air you breath is calibrated in the only way that makes our being alive possible. That the dirt under our feet could grow every sort of food we might need for nutrition. Gravity is such that if it was off one way or the other even minutely, we would either float off into the atmosphere or have the life crushed out of us.

God made us for Life and Life is found nowhere else but in a living intimacy with God. Humanity chose to believe an infernal lie that we didn't need intimacy and life from God in order to flourish. Sin has been rotting the human soul ever since. Life without God is not life and is barely existence. He is the "habitat" where human beings are able, by His power, to become fully human, and flourish.

God has made provision through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and by believing Him, that any human being can be born again, become a new creation living because God has become Life within them. The Lord God becomes our heavenly Father, our home, our perfect "habitat" in which to flourish. We can be restored, rescued, redeemed, forgiven and begin to live out, right now, the Eternal Life the Holy Spirit lives in us. He IS our life, our breath, our hope and our joy. We will only flourish IN HIM. 

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