Creation Mandate 9/8/2021 - A Mandate That Actually Mattered

IN this age of all these government COVID mandates----what about the first mandate ever given to man?...one that actually matters and serves a purpose? 

"Known as the “creation mandate,” God directed the perfect, first couple in the first chapter of the Bible (yes, before sin!) to work. The term creation mandate is not found in the Bible, though theologians throughout the centuries have highlighted this concept because of its prevalence in Scripture. Sometimes referred to as dominion mandate, the creation mandate is given to us in Genesis 1:26–28:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

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.”

God created the raw materials. But man was given stewardship responsibilities of those materials. 

Entwined in our natures as image-bearers of God, we have an integrated directive as vice-regents over God’s creation.

God created the heavens and the earth and granted humans the privilege of work to order those raw materials and subsequent derivatives in a way that glorifies and honors him (1 Corinthians 10:31). We were not meant to sit idly and waste time, space, or resources. God intended for us to work and manage the assets he created." AIG