Teaching Point: A Prepared Place

Genesis 2:8 says that God planted a garden in Eden. God created a beautiful park-like environment and there He put the man and woman he had formed. Lots of trees of varying types grew. Trees beautiful to the eye; trees with pleasing fruit to eat. Rivers ran through this garden so you can imagine the place being green, lush, rich, and vibrant! Vs. 15 says, “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” God created the garden and put Adam in the garden, and Adam had a job to do…to work it and take care of it. In the Hebrew, this reads “to cultivate and care for it.” God is very specific in man’s location. You see, God purposefully places people where they will grow. Adam’s environment was planned and planted by the Lord…and so is yours!

Be blessed this week, my dear friends! God has created you in His own image and has placed you exactly where He wants you to be! God has a purpose for placing you here and now. What work has God given you to do in your home, church, community, and world? Take care of and cultivate the environment God has placed you in – with your husband, children, family, church, and community.

Before Jesus left this earth, he spoke to his followers these words: I am going to prepare a place for you. You cannot come now, but you will follow later. Jesus is now in heaven, sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and He has prepared a place for those who love Him and believe that He is God's one and only begotton Son! Just the like the Garden of Eden that was prepared for Adam and Eve, heaven has now been prepared for us.

“O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!” Psalm 8