The Pattern of the Kingdom: God's Blessing in 'The Pattern of the Kingdom'

God doesn't only gave rules. He blessed his creation too.

After 6 days of hard work and creating our beautiful world, God rested. He enjoyed what He had made, and He wanted to share His rest with us, so that He could have a relationship with us.

" ²By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. ³And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done." (Genesis 2: 2-3)

God's Blessing in three points:

1. God's relationship with us, humans, was meant to be perfect. Different from other religions, humans don’t have to try to please their god’s to gain there blessing. In Christianity God is the one who tries to get in contact with us. He wants to have a relationship with us.

2. The relationship between man and woman was meant to be perfect. First God created the man and then he created the woman. She is the helper of the man. Genesis 2: 20-23:

“But for Adam no suitable helper was found. ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. ²²Then the Lord God mad a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said; 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman’, for she was taken out of man’.”

The man and the woman were both naked, but they didn’t realize. They were innocent, honest and pure. That’s how an relationship between man and woman should be. Sincere intimacy, no disappointment, no fights. A relationship without lies, shame, pain, fear and previous experiences that stop you from giving yourself completely.

As Matthew Henry said:

“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”

3. Humans and creation were in perfect harmony. Man had authority over all creation. (Genesis 1:26)

“ Then God said:, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over de livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”