Imagine being lost at sea, fallen off your sailboat, floating out in waters alone. What is beneath the surface? What could come up and find you, even bite you? Imagine this is the metaphor for living in the world. Knowing Jesus and realizing we are in His kingdom and you AND He has dominion over the earth. Can you trust this? Yes. Know you are safe and will be found. Live understanding that we are in the world but not of it, right? Please stop thinking the world is going to work out and supply you. Only one supplies. Jesus. It’s been written.
Genesis 1:28
28Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
John 17:14-16
“I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world”.