In Genesis 1, God has completed creating. God has just made Adam and Eve. “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28 NASB

When I read this passage, I sense that God is sending them. Sending them to work the garden, subdue the earth, and every living thing. They are essentially being told to “Go”, do the work they were created to do.

So we see our Father God, the God of Covenant sending them…telling them to go. Maybe this was the first commissioning. Man sent to work and subdue.

Of course, we have the fall and sin destroys that Paradise. What now?

Messiah is the answer. Jesus comes and pays the penalty for sin. Mankind once again has access to the Father through the Son.

After the Resurrection, we see Jesus on the mountain preparing to return to Heaven. “All authority has been given to Me in Heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 NASB

It just struck me one day while I was mowing. In the beginning, Father God commissioned Adam and Eve with their life’s work. He was sending them to subdue the earth.
When Jesus came implementing the New Covenant, once again mankind is commissioned. They are told to, “Go. Make disciples.”

Isn’t that just like Father God? Always the same. Never changing. Commissioning mankind at the beginning of time…and once again when the New Covenant is fulfilled.

I love that as we “go”…as we walk…we are able to accomplish His will. We can walk our life’s road and fulfill His commission.

I’d never seen it before. Had you?