You can make a Difference

 I am God's creation, so are you. My sight and my breath only come from God. I can think because God created my soul and my brain.

I have a lovely daughter because God created me as a fertile man.

I am a creation, totally dependent on God, but I am not a puppet.
We are created by God in his own image.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Gen 1:27 NIV

God is the ruler who governs everything. We humans are created to rule under God's authority. We are God's managers on earth. We must manage with God and for God.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Gen 1:28 NIV

The man is not to rule over the woman, but the man and the woman were created as partners to rule over the earth together. The dominion of men over women came later, after the fall.

The question is whether the subjugation of women was God's plan or a consequence of the sin that God allowed.

From the very beginning, God gave us humans important tasks. We received everything from God. God made everything.

Without God we can do nothing, but we are made in God's image. God is an active creator. That is why we are also active agents on earth. Anyone who truly believes in God is not a passive believer, but an active agent who does stuff, who influences the world in some way.

Even without obedience and without trust in God, people are active. People are doers, but without God we have brought God's world to the brink of destruction.

What is your task in life? God wants to guide and empower you.

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph 2:10 NIV

Sin has ruined the world. What is the problem? People without trust in God.

What is God's solution? People who trust God and follow Jesus.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
not by works, so that no one can boast.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Eph 2:8–10 NIV

Therefore do not grow weary in doing what is good. Do not be discouraged and never give up, for in due season we will also reap the corresponding blessing. Galatians 6:9 NLB

Jesus accomplished everything for us on the cross, but not so that we should do nothing.

We are meant to be God's active agents on earth.