It seems that no matter how good a thing is, there is always someone wanting to mess it up. However, when God created the heavens and the earth for us in which to live, the Bible tells us that God looked at what He had done and pronounced it “good.” In the day that God finished His creation, He looked and said it was “Very Good.”
When God acknowledged that among all the creatures there was not a helper for man, He created the woman whom Adam called Eve, for she would be the mother of all living mankind.
In telling man to be fruitful, reproduce and fill the earth, God made the first pair agents of a free moral spirit. He gave them the choice of whether to follow His instruction. God told them one little thing they could not do and left them the choice to obey or to disobey. At this point all was still “very good” in the eyes of the Lord God.
Satan, however, could not leave well enough alone. He had to stir things up for mankind, leading humans to rebel against what God had said. Ever since that time, there has been someone (every accountable soul at some time, Romans 3:10, 23) among the human race who sought to prove that he knew better than the Creator what was good for man to do. Such schemes have always been a dismal failure.
Man was not put on this earth as a sinful being, but rather each baby is born pure and sinless into a sin-sick and dying civilization, which in turn drags man into the ways of sin. The soul of man has been tarnished with a stain that no detergent known of man’s making can cleanse it – sin – away.
To restore the soul to its original purity man must find cleansing by the blood of Christ. We all need to come just as we are. “Just as I am, I come broken to be mended, I come wounded to be healed, I come desperate to be rescued, I come empty to be filled, I come guilty to be pardoned by the blood of Christ, Who is the Lamb. I am welcomed with open arms. Praise God, I come just as I am.” The wonderful peace, joy and cleansing is prepared for you and me. I implore you, don’t mess it up.
