I was reading a book and I thought I'd bring this up. Maybe someone can help me out. If not, I hope it's still a good read. So why did God create us? I don't really usually like thinking too hard about this kinda stuff, as it usually leads to the answer "God'll show us when we die" or "we as humans don't have the intellect to comprehend the things of God". So it pretty much means, we really don't know, but we can make the best guess with the clues that are left to us.
In the past year or so, I've always thought that we were made completely for our own benefit. That is, God has nothing to gain from making us, and that we humans have everything to gain from being created. It says in John 17:5, 24 that God existed in love and glory within the Trinity. That is, God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were just fine and happy before mankind was created, as He had everything He needed within Himself. Yet after the creation of man, there's all the heartbreak and grief that we cause Him from our sin, the pain and sadness that we bring him when we deny His love, and He had to come down from his comfy heavenly realm to die by the hands of the very people he's saving. So in my mind, God pretty much took an extra step to "unnecessarily" (I can't question God's will so I can't say that mankind was unnecessary :P) put up with and endure the crap that mankind brings him, just to save a people that doesn't deserve salvation. I don't really see where God has to gain from any of this. But I guess this is why this makes God a god of love. Love is completely sacrificial, when we truly love I don't think we're supposed to get anything in return.
So am I wrong to say that we were created completely for our benefit? It says in my book that we were created for God's glory, and I guess that makes sense to me. When God shows this kind of mercy and love to an undeserving people, I would suppose there's glory to be had out of this. But I thought to myself, what exactly does "glory" mean? Didn't he have glory before He created us, He does not need to prove that he's worthy of glory by creating us. I also had a friend that told me we were created for His pleasure. I can accept that as well. But the same question comes back to mind. What does bringing Him pleasure mean? It's not as if He couldn't have pleasure if we weren't created. So I don't see why we were created, other than for the fact that God just wanted to overflow His love unto us, just so that we can enjoy it. To those who haven't accepted Christ yet, doesn't it just make so much sense that this is and should be the one true God that we should worship and believe in? I encourage you to send your thoughts my way if you don't think so, 'cause I'm struggling to accept how people can believe anything else.
4 comments:
actually... i can't really figure out why God made people. I feel like it just him expressing himself, like an artist. He's an artist so he makes art. Anything made is beautiful and i think the end when we're with God is so awesome that in the big picture this is also beautiful to him.
Art is a Bang!!!
Seriously tho,
I agree with enoch's comment, also urs about God created us for pleasure, cos the Bible tells us that he delights in us when we worship. It's like having a kid choosing to be submissive to you, we all take great delight in that, the song made to worship comes to mind, that we are created to worship him. Cos his glory is so vast, that if he chooses to reveal himself to any being, they can not help but worship, so even the rocks cry out, even the heavens shout.
haven't wrote anything for a while eldon!
Have you ever had that feeling of joy where you just HAD to share because something made you THAT happy?
God --> Joy --> Us.
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