He Is Still Optimistic

November 27

God is perfect. He is absolutely complete in Himself. He needs nothing. He needs no one. He lacks nothing. He cannot be added to. He cannot be subtracted from. He is holy. In the presence of His majesty, all mankind from the beginning of time until its end will fall on their faces before Him, proclaiming with the angels, “Holy. Holy. Holy…”

So, why are we here? Why did a Being, so perfect, so complete, so without need, elect to create a being so unlike Himself? Perhaps the aspect of that query that must be addressed is the assertion that man, at his creation, was unlike God. In reality, at his inception, man was perfect. The fatal flaw that corrupted him sprang out of his free will.

God, wanting the love of His creation to be without any strings attached, gave mankind a free will. The first man, Adam, representing all his progeny to follow, was deceived into believing he could become more like God through an act of disobedience. Since then, we have all taken that path, followed that choice, one way or another. The questions then become, ‘Why then does God suffer us to exist?’ and…

…‘Why hasn’t He eradicated our fallen kind from the planet?‘ The answers lie in the reality that He is still optimistic about us. He has high hope that in loving us enough to die in our place, we will love in return. We will love Him and we will love one another, for, as the Apostle states in I John 4:12, “…if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is perfected in us.” His desire is that we live in the perfect love that is Himself.