Dominion

With my family's recent bathroom remodel and thoughts of an addition, I've been thinking a good deal lately about a home, a place to call my own.  The thought of a palace, a dominion, a land to tend and rule however small, excites me, just as it has countless souls since the world began.  This quest for a homeland has been the drive that scattered mankind to the farthest corners of the earth -- the command to "fill the earth and subdue it" is stamped forever in the very core of our being.  Pride has corrupted the urge into a lust for power and supremacy, but still the desire to do as we were made to do is inescapable.

God created earth to be inhabited by Man, a special being created in His likeness to be a reflection of the Great Ruler.  All that God is, He desires us to be on a humble, finite scale, pointing always to Him.  The position of authority afforded by a dominion, even the smallest, is an ideal platform from which to portray the attributes of the Creator; it is a thing to be taken very seriously.  Not even in Heaven will we lose the inborn requirement of a home of our own -- Jesus said, "In My Father's house are many mansions (dwelling places, rooms); I go to prepare a place for you."  We will continue the mandate given from the beginning, no longer tainted with the will to supplant God's Lordship, but as the faithful stewards we were designed to be.  Let us begin now with what palaces and lands as we are given!

"Well done, good and faithful servant;

you were faithful over a few things,

I will make you ruler over many things.

 Enter into the joy of your Lord."

Matthew 25:21