His Greatest Creation

Good morning,

We read in Genesis 1:26-27 that, after creating this world, the Three-in-One decided to create mankind, a being unlike any other created thing, living or inanimate.  Mankind was the crowning touch of God's creation, the grand finale, a unique, mysterious "likeness" of God.  The writer of Ecclesiastes 3:11 proclaims that He "set eternity in the human heart".

God's desire was not for angels to rule over the rest of His creation, Earth.  It was for man to rule and reign over this planet.  But, beyond that, we see in Revelation 4:11 mankind was created, indeed all things/beings were created, for His good pleasure.  We read about Adam and Eve and God walking together in the Garden of Eden, having a kind of fellowship that we, in our fallen world, cannot yet know.  This demonstrates that we were created for intimate fellowship with God, to commune with Him, spirit to Spirit.

Even as he created our kind, though, He in His sovereignty knew His heart's desire would be thwarted by Adam and Eve's free will.  He knew that man would become trapped by the snares of the enemy. He knew, all Three knew, what sacrifice would be required to restore this fallen, human creation.

So, the love story of Christmas did not begin with Jesse or with David.  It began the moment we were conceived in the matchless mind of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The writer of Ecclesiastes goes on to say (3:11b): "no one can fathom what God has done, from beginning to end."  He is beyond our human comprehension.

Ann asks what causes us to pause in wonder.  This.

My friend, as I write tonight, is giving birth to a baby boy.  What joy!  A new life begins, with all its hopes and dreams and promises.  Our joy at the birth of our children is slight, when compared to the love and joy that sprang in the heart of the Godhead and spawned our race, all those eons ago.

Still, what God would decide to create a race of beings who He knew, They KNEW, would break their hearts?  They knew that the Son would be required to "empty Himself, taking the form of a servant, and being born in the likeness of man" (Philippians 2:7).  And, if that weren't enough, because that was NOT enough to restore us, to pay the penalty for our sin, They knew that He would wear that cloak of flesh for 33 years, before submitting Himself to the most shameful of deaths.

All for love, of us, of me.  Incomprehensible, unimaginable love, divine love beyond all human understanding!