WHY DID GOD CREATE US?
Often someone will ask why God created humanity. There are questions that we simply want to know the answer to. We don’t have to know why. We just want to know. We are interested. And being interested in the things of God is always good.
It can be very hazardous to our spiritual life when we become distracted with questions, rather than focused on and obsessed with Christ. But as long as it does not become a distraction from Jesus, there can be nothing wrong with wondering about certain things.
The answer to this one is simple, isn’t it? Out of a desire for fellowship. To love His children. That certainly has to be a big part of it. Perhaps there are no definitive answers about the mind of God on this issue. Some say we cannot know the answers to such questions. And it is certain that we will never understand the mind of the Lord fully on any issue. We trust, we don’t fully understand. “Who has known the mind of the Lord? And from whom does He seek advice?” (Romans 11:34).
But the one thing that we do know is that we are here because He wanted us to be here. God is in charge. Again, He seeks advice from no one. He is totally self-sufficient. God wanted to create us.
And He wanted a relationship with us enough to send His Son into the world to die so that that relationship could be realized. Our relationship with God was His idea. There is never any reason to be afraid if your heart is right with your creator. The God we serve is a God of mercy and compassion. A God who seeks fellowship with those whom He has created.
Why are we here? Because He wanted us to be here. Everything that happens happens because God is in control. It should be impossible for us to conceive of our own non-existence. We are here because we are supposed to be here. Because we existed in God’s mind before we came into being.
You are important to God because of who God is. Because of who created you. God created man and woman in His own image (Genesis 1:27). We are created beings. God, in other words, thought enough of us to create us. That brings purpose and that brings importance.
But the importance does not come from within us. It comes from who made us. It comes from union with Christ. There is no one on earth, or in the history of the world, who has ever understood everything about mankind’s relationship to God. It is past finding out. There is no way we will ever understand it fully.
We are desperately wicked creatures in whom nothing, apart from the intervention of God, dwells (Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 7:18). Our hearts are so wicked we cannot even understand them (Jeremiah 17:9).
But God comes to us in the person of Jesus Christ with a message of hope and redemptive love. It is a life-changing message. It is what life is about.
Dewayne Dunaway
