We Came from God -- We Abide in Christ to Return to Him

When God was making the worlds, He offered first their origin, then issued their creation:

"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven."(Genesis 1: 20)

"Let the waters bring forth". . .the fish in the sea and the birds in the air have their origin in the water. Interesting, indeed.

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so." (Genesis 1: 24)

Let the earth bring forth" -- so, all flesh, all beasts come from the ground.

Man did not come from the water, and he did not come from the earth.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis 1: 26)

From God man came. God is our source, God is our substance, God is our origin. We belong in Him, just as fish belong in the water and birds belong in the air, and plants belong in the ground.

Of course, our bodies are made from the earth:

"But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2: 6-7)

While our bodies, our flesh come from the ground, our spirit and with it our living souls come from God.

Yet when man sinned against God, when Adam and Eve chose to be independent of God, they ate the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and thus they died spiritually, separated from God.

"6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons." (Genesis 3: 6-7)

Strictly speaking, they became carnally minded, thinking of themselves, and seeking to justify themselves:

"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." (Romans 8: 6)

Another translation brings out the focus which overtook Adam and Eve:

"for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit -- life and peace;" (Youngs Literal Translation)

God has provided us a better way to return to Him, to make Him the Source of our lives: Jesus!

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10: 10)

Then

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14: 6)

In the next chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus shows Himself as Love, Life, and Source altogether:

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15: 1-5)

Jesus is the Vine for us, for His Church, for everyone of us. For those who believe on Him, we learn to depend on Him for everything in our lives.

We came from God, as as branches in our Vine Jesus, we return to Him who is our source!