Volume 65 December 2026-January 2026 : Mokanoki

Maybe it make sense that, after talking a lot about forgiveness, one should talk a little about management. At the sound of the word management you are wondering what the examiner is driving at.

Let me start by asking you a few questions to ease your mind. Did you know that in the beginning, when God created earth, He held off from sending the rain first? He did not want to water the plants yet because He did not want them to grow before He had created someone in His own image to take care of them. How do I know that? The second chapter of the Book of Genesis tells us thus:  When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens- and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground (Genesis 2:4-5).

We can now conclude that God did not allow anything to grow on earth first because there was nobody to work the ground. Nobody had been created yet to cultivate the soil, and God did not want to let the plants grow untended. Another way of saying it, is that there was nobody to manage the gardening. "To manage." That is amazing! God did not allow anything to grow on earth at first because He did not have a manager yet. And then He made the earth's first manager, Adam.

He made Him in His own image, and He breathed His own life into him. He spoke to Adam, and Adam spoke to Him. Now God could water the earth, causing green plants to grow in profusion. He created a wonderful garden filled with these plants and trees, and He called it Eden. He gave the Garden to Adam as his dwelling place, and He told him "to work it and take care of it" (see Gen. 2:8-15). He also told him to name the animals. And then God blessed Adam with a wife, and she called her Eve. Everything was perfect. You and I were born in this world to be Managers like Adam.

They are very few people who know and understand this fact. Adam could not have been expected to know automatically what he was supposed to do. So God had to give him instructions. He told Adam and Eve: be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it.  Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."  Then God said, " I give you every seed-bearing plant on the earth and every tree that has fruit with the seed in it.  They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground - everything that has the breath of life in it  -I give every green plant for food" (Genesis1: 28-30).

All along God's motivation, His reason for creating the human race, was management you could refer to this as his management mandate.

These words express God's original intent. They show us His original purposes for the planet we call Earth.  We are simple and complicated at the same time: simple in that He wanted to establish His Kingdom rule on earth; complicated in that He had created such a profusion of life that managing it  (as Adam found out a little later) was not going to be easy. God had given a big responsibility to a very fallible being. When Adam and Eve rebelled against Him, He did not change the mandate. He only changed the conditions under which it would be performed. We have inherited those conditions, and we have also inherited the mandate. Centuries and centuries later, billions of people live the same planet called Earth. ENDS

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