WHY did He make Adam if He knew He would 'mess up'?
I think Father values life- He delights in His creation- He is LOVE and Love is expressed when it has an object- before the foundations of time there existed Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--a beautiful picture of relationship. Father knew the 'first Adam' would fall but it was His joy to send a 'second Adam' to redeem His people- It wasn't a plan "B" but His ultimate intention to restore relationship with Himself through faith. We were important enough to Him so send a solution- We were His in the first place- He made us, so now we are doubly His : created by Him and bought by His blood... that He may exist in fellowship and relationship with us.
WHY did He send Jesus?
Sin- i.e.Adam's rejection of God's provision, Adam believing that He could be as God(P-r-i-d-e) separates us from God. I imagine a loving Father, a Jealous God, could not bear for His precious people to live unto idols of self and the world... so "God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners Christ died for us" So we would see HIS greatness, HIS glory, HIS selfless love (He does not NEED us, yet He loves us out of who He is) so He could be united with us- in complete unity- in intimate relationship.(Christ IN you the Hope of Glory)
Saves us from His wrath- I can't imagine any worse torture than being eternally separated from God- and neither can HE.
WHY did He forgive us in Christ?
because sin separates us from Him and He wants us to be in relationship with Him
WHY does He sanctify us?
He want to renew our souls from the inside out, disciplining us and purifying us so he can bring us to deep intimacy (in His power) and and deep trusting relationship with Him (don't you agree that trusting someone is part of true intimacy- trusting someone to see you and all your faults but accepting them wholeheartedly- so He can pour His love over you?!!)
WHY does He bring problems and trials in our lives?
Like He does in sanctification, He is faithful to relieve us of our own means of control, shows how His ways are better, thus producing a deeper dependence on Him to be the solution to problems and trials, therefore producing intimacy which equals RELATIONSHIP.
See, I don't think He purifies us just for the sake of good and bad... He has much greater purposes for us. I dont think He forgives us just because that's what we need/have to have. Ask HIM why? I have a feeling He will reveal more answers and you read the scripture with an open heart. Read them like a love letter not a 'honey-do' list. Whatever you do- do all for the glory of God... Whatever is not done in faith is sin (so that perfect sunday school attendance gets you no points if you were doing it for fleshly reasons: self image, peoplepleasing/getting acceptance, earning some righteousness... these are things that God can sufficiently provide to you and me without our help!) We go to church to know Him! through fellowshipping with others, through trusting and depending on our great Father to do what HE wants to do through our presense there (which is usually not what we think He wants to do- He's cool like that- I think He does things out of the box, well, so we can depend on Him more, listen to Him more, and therefore KNOW HIM MORE!)
He loves us out of His fullness- His overflow. He desires to know us- to be intimate with us... just look at the cross and listen to the gospel. Let is speak to your deepest needs today. acceptance? check- need met totally in Christ- can't feel it? believe it with that mustard seed of faith- He will honor it and plant that seed deep inside so it will grow. Oh He want to know you, and the depths of knowing HIM- just ask. wait. believe. He's able to do what He said He would do:
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. (HE LIVES IN YOU, BELIEVER!)
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places wher they should live. (could that go for us too? I believe so...)God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for Him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, 'we are his offspring' Acts 17:24-28
God is purposeful. God is near. Seek him and you'll find Him. Dont give up. He is working in you whether you know it or not. If you are believer, you are living on a field with a huge inheritance in it. Think of it like this: You have an eternal reserve of oil in this field. It's yours, you just dont know it yet until you start to dig a little, sweat a little, seek a little... Then, it's only a matter of time before you strike oil.
He wants to know you. Please BELIEVE it!
