Having clearly established the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, Jesus next goes on to describe the fundamental facts of existence. It is the nature of God to be in heaven, and of man to be on earth because God is Cause, and man is manifestation. Here heaven stands for God or Cause, because in religious phraseology heaven is the term for the Presence of God. The word earth signifies manifestation, and man’s function is to manifest or express God as Cause. In other words, God is the Infinite and Perfect Cause of all things; but Cause has to be expressed, and God expresses Himself by means of man. Man’s destiny is to express God in all sorts of glorious ways. To express means to press outward, or bring into sight. Every feature of your life is really a manifestation or expression of something in your soul.
Since it is misunderstandings about the relationship of God and man that lead to all our difficulties, it is worth any amount of trouble to correctly understand that relationship. Trying to have manifestation without Cause is atheism and materialism, and we know where they lead. “Our Father which art in heaven.”
“as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them”(2 Corinthians 6:16).
What a glorious realization it is for us to know that God presses himself out into the physical world through us! Every child born into this world is a part of His consciousness and will, poking into our world. Like a thumb on the hand of God’s consciousness, it pushes through the veil of our sensory separation to manifest itself here below. How precious is each and every human being ever born!
When we think, speak and live our ordained destiny here below, we enter the garden called beautiful. There, the thumb of God empowers us to plow and plant and reap pure joy, plenty and peace. That gardener’s thumb is truly green and all that flows from it into this world will grow, thrive an multiply in this Eden until everything here below comes to exist as God has willed; as the Kingdom of God drawn near.
Thumbs Up,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
Thumbs up, indeed. I love the way you develop the thumb imagery to make a precious point: each of us is a unique expression of God in a myriad of ways. You always leave me pondering. Thanks.