Here’s just a thought (43)…

"The LORD God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him' "

(Genesis 2:18).

Is it also true that it was/is not good for GOD to be alone?

We often mention that Adam and Eve in the garden are a pattern of Christ and the Bride/church.
If God reveals that it was not good for Adam to be alone, but that he needed a companion... surely it was a patterned or figurative way of saying, "It is not good for ME to be alone... l must have a companion!"

And all of God's work from that day to this, especially involving His Son, Jesus Christ, has been for that express purpose: of creating a "companion" (actually, a company of companions) for His eternal fellowship.

That is what the “new creation” is all about.

Look at it another way:

(1) If our own observation/experience shows us how unsatisfactory life can be if lived entirely alone, with no regard for or fellowship with others, and how much we need companionship, personal and spiritual and sympathetic and loving... and

(2) If we are made in the image and likeness of God, then... reasoning backward... it is not good that God

Himself be alone either.

I remember some years ago a young lady asking in a Bible class: "Why does God love me?" The question passed with perfunctory discussion, and I at first dismissed it from my mind as of no great consequence. But then the question came back to me again later... and it suddenly seemed to be of enormous import: "WHY does God love me?" Not just the fact of His love, but the rationale behind it! I finally came to the conclusion that: God loves me because He needs someone to love, and He needs someone to love Him... and that somehow even the Omnipotence of the Universe would be incomplete without the love, freely

Given of His creation!

 So why weren't/aren't the angels enough? I would think it is because their devotion is almost pre-programmed... whereas our devotion/love is out of our own wills, freely given. And this is what God is looking for! And this is why He had to create beings like Adam and Eve with the potential to choose, and hence the potential to disappoint him greatly... but also with the potential -- what a potential! -- to please Him.

Now there's a thought: that our disregard for the Father can truly hurt him! What a responsibility to consider!

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