“ YOU HAVE MADE HIM TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS;YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET”.
PSALMS 8:6
After creating man in His own image God blessed him(Genesis 1:26-28).In 1:26 God gave him authority over everything and in 1:28 He blessed them and God said to them”Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it”. It is a command and a blessing. So Adam was not only given a command but given all support,stamina,divine help ,wisdom and all that needed in administering and govern the whole earth.All the earth means surface of the earth,mountains,hills,rivers,clouds,trees,vegetation,forest,soil, air, animals, minerals, oceans etc.(Genesis9:2,psalms8:1,3-4,5-8)
Psalmist got the revelation that
God Made Man Ruler
Of Everything That He Created.
It goes even beyond the planet earth(Psalms 8:6).”The works of His hands”.
When Neil Armstrong landed in moon, he exercised the authority given to man over the planets.When Tensing and Hillary climbed Mount Everest , they were obeying God, by fulfilling the command in Genesis 1:28
“SUBDUE The EARTH”.
Those who are working in NASA are obeying the same command of God . Those who are working in Vikram Sara Bhai Center(VSSC) are obeying the commands and fulfilling it.Our late President. Abdul Kalam was obeying the command of God by spending his whole life by making researches on planets and trying to subdue them. He won to a great extend. He spent his whole life in fulfilling this command of God and hence the Lord blessed him with an award”Vision India 2020”.Since he was not able to interpret in the light of the Gospel, the Lord raised people in His church to interpret his book “ Vision of India 2022”. The first vision about the future of India was given to Dr. Abdul Kalam because he proved his competence in rule over the planets thereby obeying the ‘God given command ‘ in Genesis1:28.
All the inventions, discoveries made by man in the world are the best proofs of accomplishment of the commandment to rule over the earth.
Father God, it is Your purpose of us to subdue everything You created and rule over it . Give us the grace to fulfill Your purpose in our lives. In the name of Jesus we ask.
AMEN