PARADISE – get paid to go there!

How would you like to spend six months on a tropical island? And be paid for it?

An Australian tourist office advertised for a "caretaker" for islands on the Great Barrier Reef.

The agency received 34,000 applicants. The man who got the job now receives £70,000 in salary, has his own villa and works only 12 hours a month!

Or consider the offer of an altogether hardier existence on a remote island in the Scottish Orkneys. A good sized property was advertised for about £300 a year rent. Again thousands applied.

What is it about secluded places that attract us to sell up and move far away from anybody else? Does having your own corner of God’s earth where no-one can disturb you sound like Eden? Reconnecting with nature restores the soul.

But what about reconnecting with one another?

We live among strangers, disconnected from one another. We pollute the earth because we’re disconnected from creation too. Not only that, but prevalent self harm indicates we’re even disconnected with our selves. Somewhere along the line, paradise has been well and truly lost.

The original Eden story, in Genesis in the Bible, is a sad tale of our original disconnection with God, after which everything else fell apart. Only with Jesus was reconciliation with God made fully possible.

Just about everyone wants an idyllic lifestyle. Let’s get reconciled with God; then paradise will get to work on us – from the inside out.

Paradise – He paid for it.

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