From Desert to Green Pasture
What picture does the word desert evoke in your mind? I see a wide expanse of barrenness, and if I were lost in it without food and water, I would surely perish. But if I lived among green pastures, there would be plenty of food and water to sustain me. Have you ever wondered how God sees this world? When I asked this question in Scripture classes, the children usually answered, ‘He sees good people and bad people.’ While the words good and bad might need some defining, God indeed sees what people do. But more importantly, He sees what they are and to whom they belong. God also sees two types of people, but what He sees may surprise you: God sees those who are born physically but are dead spiritually and reside in Satan’s domain, and those who are born again spiritually by the Spirit of God and are alive and in God’s kingdom forevermore. Let’s imagine we are watching a world divided into two kingdoms: Satan’s kingdom to the left – a huge expanse of desert – and God’s k...