Original intent

So if God needed to curse in order to make it difficult for them to get their daily bread, does it logically follow that before that everything was blessed. If we look at that word, we see that it means something like endowed with the ability to do as intended or commanded. In other words, when He said be fruitful and multiply, the conditions had to be right, they had to be able to do just that. This curse on the ground isn’t that it won’t do what it was intended to do, but that creation would fight against the man’s efforts rather than fully cooperate.

When Jesus curses the fig tree that isn’t bearing fruit out of season in Matthew 21 does that mean that the original intent was that this tree would bear fruit at all times? It wasn’t cooperating with the divine will. What does that have to say about our lives?

This cursing of the ground and the petition in the Lord’s Prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread” seem related. While the curse of difficulty may be painful to us, the fact that we receive our daily bread is itself a blessing of mercy to us. How do we pray for those who hunger and how do we fit into God’s economy of provision?

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