WHY AM I HERE

Genesis 2:5, 7-8  These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.  ⁵ ... ⁷ then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.⁸ And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Can you imagine what it would be like to awaken to this, this picture?  This being the first thing you saw, not knowing where you were at, or why are you even here?  While we don't know what Adam's first thoughts were, we can reflect on our discoveries of our youth, or watch a baby discovering the world in which they live with joyfilled excitement and curiousity. God made sure we didn't have to experience darkness and void, He had created a world, a universe well before Adam or any of breathed or first breath.  BUT WHY?  So that we would enjoy His Creations.  That is no different now.....we are here because GOD has created much for us to appreciate and enjoy EVERYDAY!   He didn't birth Adam onto a vacant lot but rather a garden, and no matter where you were born, GOD made sure you had everything you needed.    

TODAY, chances are you didn't wake up under an overpass, or in a thicket, or in your car.....but wherever you woke up, the point is really YOU WOKE UP!  Can you focus not on the brown blade of grass in the picture, or the fact that this might make you sneeze....but rather on just the beauty of GOD's creation, and praise Him for blessing you with eyes to see.   SO WHAT you are on your way to work.....somebody wish they had a job to go to.   SO WHAT you don't feel 100%, someone only has 10% chance of living. LET's pause so that we don't miss what GREAT THINGS GOD IS DOING, and PRAISE HIM FOR THAT!

I pray we see today with FRESH EYES, like that of a newborn, and that we find ourselves delighting in HIM, and the simple things.  LGLP