Understanding God's original mandate for us from the book of Genesis does more than provide a sense of mission...
... it strengthens your psyche...
... equips you to assess the world around you...
... and puts you in a better place to distinguish between good and evil.
Let's illustrate...
Increasingly schools have been sexualizing children -- at younger and younger ages.
Parents have finally begun to push back.
And the Florida Senate just passed a bill banning instruction on sex and gender for kindergarten through third grade.
It's hard to believe such a bill is necessary.
And even harder to imagine there are those who oppose it.
Yet there are... with the leadership of Disney even coming out against the measure, claiming it's anti-gay.
But let's not lose the big picture.
And let's have a dominion orientation help us.
Part of God's dominion mandate involves protecting what He entrusts to our care (Gen.2:15)...
Well there's hardly anything more valuable and worthy of protection than the most vulnerable of God's image-bearers, children.
Jesus saw this so clearly He said it would be better for anyone who causes a child to stumble to be drowned in the sea (Mt.18:6).
So let's be clear ourselves...
Measures to safeguard children aren't anti-anything.
They're simply helping to fulfill what all selfless, responsible adults ought to be doing for children -- and that's protect them.