Things are walking over us -Part 1

 I write as I am led by my instincts which invariably is controlled by God’s Holy Spirit which dwells within me.

I am therefore being motivated to wear my preacher’s cap this week to address an issue which I believe agitates the minds of many believers.

Many people have doubts about the authenticity of the Bible due to the level of poverty amongst be­lievers as well as lack of many Christians being at the commanding heights of business, governance and organisations in society contrary to what the Bible teaches.

When you enter into a rich man’s home in his ab­sence and if the wife is also not around, usually, it is the steward or house help who is in charge of affairs, that is if the children in the house are very young.

Instead of the children being in charge of affairs, due to lack of knowledge, the house help takes charge of affairs in the house. This is the reason why although the word of God makes it clear that Christians are to be in charge in all spheres of life, the reverse is the case.

The richest man in the world currently is not a Christian. In fact, a study conducted by an organi­sation called New World Wealth revealed that out of the 13.1 millionaires in the world, just about 56.2 per cent are Christians contrary to the expectation that overwhelming majority should be Christians.

The cause of this seem­ingly contradictory occur­rence from what the Bible portrays is the lack of understanding of the scrip­tures, specifically Genesis Chapter 1 verses 26 and 27 which states, “And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cat­tle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

The lack of understanding of these scripture verses is the basis for the inability of Christians to fulfill the dominion mandate that God purposed for believers. When the Bible says image and after our likeness, it does not mean a picture i.e. that when a man or woman looks in a mirror, what she or he sees is what God looks like.

It rather refers to the nature of God and the attributes. God expects human beings to express love, compassion, patience among others and more importantly, to exercise control or dominion on earth through his power that he made available to Adam and Eve when God created them. That was God’s original purpose and it has not changed.

When the first humans disobeyed God through the influence of Satan, man as in male and female, be­came corrupted and lost some of the power to exer­cise dominion as well as to fully exhibit the attributes of God.

Sin brought with it wick­ed thoughts and deeds and that was why Cain was able to murder his brother Abel as a result of anger and bit­terness. The descendants of Cain who are popularly referred to as the line of wickedness brought the marrying of two or more wives and, hence side-chics.

God wishing for his origi­nal purpose for mankind to be restored, then hatched a plan resulting in the com­ing of Jesus that mankind through him would be re­stored to our original state in the Garden of Eden.

Christians therefore through the Holy Spirit are imbued with creativ­ity which is an attribute of God and are uniquely placed to be innovative so that they can create things and provide services that people need to enable them control the com­manding heights of indus­try, governance technology and more importantly spiritual realm.

By Laud Kissi-Mensah