With all the ills in this world, ever wonder why God created man to begin with?
While His ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours, I do have a thought.
It was love that moved God to create man in the beginning. “God is love,” is what the Apostle John penned (cf. 1 John 4:8). Yet, there was nothing for God to love outside of himself. Thus, He created man in His image and likeness. It is an image and likeness that could love.
God’s desire was to have an object for His love and for that object to love Him in return.
Yet, even with the creation of Adam and the loving community created between God and man, Adam had no object of like ‘kind’ for him to love. So, God created a “helpmeet for him” (Genesis 2:18). With the creation of woman, the man now had an object of like kind to love while at the same time having God to love too. Eve was to “help Adam meet” his fullness in God through love’s expression.
God’s creation-desire of a loving community, where man and woman love one another and where they both love him, was now established.
Yet again, there was one more need to complete that community of love. Just as God created man and woman, he granted them the ultimate expression of love in having a part in the “creation” of children. Children are a blessing from God, “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number…’” (Genesis 1:28) and designed with the understanding they are the ultimate expression of the gift in intimate love. So much so, they are the Lord’s heritage: “Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward” (Psalms 127:3 NASB).
It has been said that love is only as strong as the action it promotes. God put His love in action, first with the creation of man, and then with man’s redemption:
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8 NASB).
The ills of this fallen world find their root in misplaced love, where the love of self has replaced the love of God—and thus, the godly love for one another.
Let’s turn love—the love of God—into an action word today.
