{NIL} NAME… IMAGE… LIKENESS: Where Did This Truly Originate? And What Are We To Do With These Talents? TCAA, with God’s Guidance, is Up to Something Great! Now, How Do I Get In?
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How about we
start with something that has been here since the beginning, (but has been hidden and/or buried way too long)... God’? What better place than the point of origination of all mankind to get it right and then do our best to ‘keep it right.’ Here are a few verses
of scripture from the Genesis record of creation.
In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth… and then on
the 6th day 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. So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth.
In a short
view to those who believe the bible and God as the Creator, this is not complex
at all. Let me illustrate in four
layers. Here’s layer one.
God named
us, (mankind; male and female) in His image and likeness, thus NIL, Name,
Image, Likeness. And goes on to say we will be fruitful, multiply and have
dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
We get two
more layers that signify dominion and how we see our fruit/talents being
multiplied in order that we can create and get wealth. It’s in the book of
Deuteronomy which I often say, ‘God’s Economy is in Deuteronomy. Many places in this book denote it but I refer us to Deuteronomy 8:18. I go on to say that The Creative
Economy is in Deuteronomy and that God is the Creator of the Economy.
And thirdly,
how we do it. It’s about seeing the talents in each of us and putting these
same talents into the marketplace and investing in a good return. This
is in the book of Matthew, chapter 25 when we see the persons who had one, two
and five talents. We see what they did right and what they did wrong.
The ones
that put their talents to work were profitable, the one who did not was not only
unprofitable but was punished.
The fourth
layer is a combination of all the above. Now we ask... who are the cultivators and the ones
who help get the talents to the marketplace for a profitable return on investment?
The short
answer is those in the Kingdom of God who are able to help develop, produce and
market the talents. Andy yes, the earlier, the more profits that can be yielded.
Now, see how
this moment unfolds as we use the tools of education (God’s Word and business
skills from The College of Aspiring Artists and NIL insertion) and begin to unveil
something that’s been here since the beginning but buried way too long.
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