August 16
The Lord God of all Creation is tenderly disposed toward the work of His hands. The most precious of all He has fashioned was not made by the word of His mouth as was everything else that He designed; no, that was not sufficient for His highest creation.
Though all of nature was fashioned by His word, it was by the touch of His hand that He fashioned clay into the man Adam. It was as though the mere speaking of humankind into being was not intimate enough.
Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to be aware that His touch has been upon us from the beginning. Having a relationship with us was not an afterthought that occurred to Him after the fall. It wasn’t that He scrambled to correct a blunder! It happened just as He knew at the onset that it would have to be.
He tells us as much in Hosea 11:4 where the prophet says, “I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.” To Him, man is not an abstraction. To Him, man is the heart of His creation, the fullness of the work of His hands, the reason for Jesus’ sacrificial love.
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