All of creation is evidence of God's perfect plan.

God's ultimate perfect creation - - humankind.

Male and Female - - to hold, love and cherish each other and to form a family that joins with other families to create loving, caring and supportive communities that form a world that witnesses to God's perfect plan.

God has no other plan than this.

Biblical evidence and history tell us that humankind has been "arguing with God" ever since about what we are created for and how we live out that destiny.

We have tested God perfect plan at every turn in history. Like God's original wilderness people we have rebelled against God's perfect plan - - wantonly supplanting it with our own.

We engage in self-serving definitions of creature and creation and continue to be rebellious wilderness people.

We have witnessed, up close and personal, what happens when families and communities disintegrate. Civilizations have disappeared from the face of the earth who lusted after their own desires and denied God's perfect plan.

God only has one perfect plan - - it is not multiple choice!

For too long our Western culture has said - - if it feels good, do it and God will surely bless it. We bemoan the disintegration of the family unit, morals and manners. We have put bars on our doors to keep thieves out. We have cocooned our selves into less than what God=s perfect plan intends for us. We think that "prayer in public schools" and posting edifices of the Ten Commandments will somehow restore our civilization.

Will we be one of those civilizations that will cease to exist because of our rebellious nature?

God's history tells us that there will always be a faithful remnant to start the next civilization when this one fails Somehow God never gives up on us!

God's perfect plan is that again it will be - - Male and Female - - to hold, love and cherish each other and to form a family that joins with other families to create loving, caring and supportive communities that form a world that witnesses to God's perfect plan.

You see every time we fail God keeps repeating the same perfect plan - -

Somehow we have just not "got it" yet!



A Jim Lane Commentary
December 8, 2003