Our verse: Gen 1:28 “...God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it.”

God tells us humans from the very beginning that humanity is to be fruitful. Just what is He talking about and how do we respond?

Let's consider...
Fruitfulness involves many things. Primarily it means having a family and increasing the number of people here. Second it means to take care of the earth. To make the earth a beautiful place to raise your family and be with your friends. God made this the rule of life for all people at the very beginning of time.

How about a definition from God's perspective?
“Fruitiful” means producing more humans and ruling over and using the earth in a way that helps everyone on it.

Sadly mankind has messed up these guidelines and forgotten how to do it right. People today seek physical satisfaction as the primary goal and use up the earth for one's own ends without considering affects them or others.

Our task is to reverse this trend among people everywhere. We are to be “fruitful”- productive in our lives on earth. This means we use the Golden Rule, treating others just like we want to be treated. Our concern pointed outward, not inward. It means we will raise and protect our families and treat them well.

We will take care of the physical earth, not wasting what God made, but instead using and developing it for the benefit of all. This includes the digital world of electrons and machines.

We are the next wave of Christians- God followers, following millions of others throughout history from Adam and Eve. We continue to bring good to the world. We are helpers and healers. Education, the arts, the professions, like law science, medicine. While there is degradation in these fields, we have unlimited opportunities to love God and our fellow humans.

This is where you come in for 2017. This can be the best year ever for you, your family, the world around you. You have your natural skills and acquired skills to be “fruitful”- a real world, everyday help to make the world better. Take some time here at the new year to do an inventory of your natural and acquired skills. (many resources online) Then pray and ask your Father in Heaven how you might use those skills to bless yourself, your family and others. He will supernaturally energize you to use your gifts for the benefit of others. Our prayer for you- Father, please bless this Mountain listener, He or she is Your child, and gifted to be fruitful in this world, help us make the world better for every single person, In Jesus' name, Amen! Happy 2017!