I have started a new Bible reading plan. It is chronological. What a ride it has been! It was like seeing Genesis all over again for the very first time! He creates! He names! There is joy! he is joy! He creates! And he names! There has been an effervescent quality to feeling the creative facet to Him this time that I have not touched before. He enjoys! It is bubbly! It is fun! And it is perfect! And there are some things He created, that he left unnamed. he put it into the hands of men to do that. To name stuff.
And I ponder judgments we make. And how somehow it is us, naming stuff without wisdom and without God.
We are created to one day judge the world, and to judge angels. You will be asked how angel x did over the region where you lived, in the area he was assigned to display God and minister to the heirs of salvation.
By the time this assignment comes, we will be ready.
Our spirits will have been matured. Our souls will have been tamed. And our bodies will have reached their end. Our birthright, then, will shine. So God in His wisdom, put us on a path. It began when He created stuff He did not name. It continued with the example of Adam, with spirit alive before soul had ruled, naming the animals.
It is a substory to the story of reconciliation back to the garden.
In the reconciliation we are both being restored and being grown up.
It occurs to me that there are things God has created and put in my life that he is wanting me to name.
It is Father, preparing me for the day when reigning is a portion of my role.
It is practice, to feel what it is like to commune with Him, get his perspective and assign something on the earth with the dominion I have as a son.
It may be a situation. Or a heart ache. or a new relationship. Or an old one.
We see John redefined as the son of Mary at the cross.
Named.
God named me.
And he wants me to name.
And it develops me towards the day when I will proclaim.
Wholehearted and with authority.
The way every good wife does, in oneness with her husband.
I get to share His joy that He created stuff, He knew this would all be happening. And I am a part of that joy.
Amazing King.