#20 Back on Track
With the new year approaching quickly I realized this:
I should blog more!
I haven’t blogged since October!
So alas, my idea that was originally for post #18.
Q: Why did God Create the Universe?
A biggie.
An answer I of course can not answer. No one can. But I can tell you what I think about it.
I can tell why reasons that aren’t why God created universe.
- God did not create the universe because he needed to. God does not need anything. He does not need you, he does not need me, he does not need the church, Billy Graham, the angels, Moses, anybody! God does not need anything or anyone.
- God did not create the universe because he was bored. Can God really be bored? It is such a human emotion and God is not human thus I don’t think God can be bored. To be bored is to seek pleasure in the moment that you’re lacking now. God can not lack. Thus again I’ll say God can not be bored.
- God did not create the universe in a competition. Who would he be competing against?
Anyway, those are some things that DO NOT answer the question. Now we shall move on towards my answer.
First we should look at why does God do anything?
Why did God let Adam and Eve sin?
- His love for them and giving them choice.
Why did God let Jesus die on the cross?
- His love for us and wanting to reconcile us to him.
Why did God let natural disasters and wars happen?
- His love for terrifying people (JUST KIDDING!), But on a more serious note he is sending us the message that this life is not all that there is. He (out of love) has created us a better place for us to live in throughout all eternity without all this stuff now. It is going to be beyond anything we could comprehend!
You’ll notice a trend. Each of those answers begins with love. Why does God do anything we don’t understand? The answer will always be love. God can not act out of love. It is impossible!
God is love.
Here is one thing to remember though. We can not understand his love. What we think is love isn’t love. We can only get a picture of it.
This is how Paul was inspired to write about it:
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
That is the love that God is. That is the love that God acts from.
Anything that God does is based on that love.
This year’s fine arts theme is “Compelled by Love”
What would the world be like if we all our actions were compelled by that kind of love.
Such a challenge to even think about.
So go, think about it.
