Genesis 1:26 then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish, the birds, the livestock and all creatures that move along the ground.”
God said, “Let us make,” that ‘Let us’ is plural, which means more than one. As a young person in church, no one explained to me that, ‘Let us’ was the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I always wondered who else was with God at the creation.
Second of all, God said, “So that they may rule.” They also is plural and means more than one. So now you know that one community, Father, Son and Holy Spirit started another community, man and woman and told them to be fruitful, which means to continue to grow the community.
We were meant to be in a community or fellowship with other like minded people as we inhabit the earth.
The spirit of this age is driving us apart and trying to isolate all of us. Technology or shall we say ‘screens’ are one thing that is pulling us from ‘community’ and separating us from each other.
‘The Anxious Generation’ by Jonathan Haidt argues that the transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood has been a disaster. A play-based childhood is a community or neighborhood of children playing together without direct adult supervision and no screens.
Let me encourage you to rejoin a community. Come to church on Sunday mornings. Pick one, of the many churches, in your community and go to church this Sunday. Lay down your technology and do something new.
We are in the season of Lent right now until Easter. A time of fasting, prayer, Bible reading, worship, transformation and giving, of our time and our money to others.
Start something new in your lives this Sunday morning. Shut off your screens, come join a community and save your own life and your children.
May the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be always acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer. Amen
