What God expects from us!

What God expects from us!

We must begin at the beginning where God decides to create you and me.  In Genesis chapter 1, we read that God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss.  (Gn 1: 1 - 2).  In this short introduction from nothing, except the will of God, everything began to evolve into something.  Here in this passage we are getting a glimpse of what God’s intentions were for humanity, yet to come on the scene.  

Taking a look at eternity, where God is, and understanding the omnipotence of our creator, the desire of retrieving from the wasteland an entity that he called man now had the essence of God himself in the form of finiteness.  

Creation of itself becomes the process of nothing tangible becoming something for the purpose of being in a void of emptiness and expanding into a treasure that will have no ending.  This is what we call God’s desire to make one who would love him, when he breathed life into the nostrils of his creation called man.  We are not a happenstance or an accident that just dropped out of the emptiness of space.  Each of us had a purpose for human life and an expectation of completing the reason, known only to God, that would continue the task of bringing more like ourselves to God’s table for a banquet.

As parents we always try to pass on the wisdom and knowledge that we ourselves had to learn through the struggles of life.  In this attempt to assure ourselves we are doing what is expected as stewards of human life, our children, to carry on the reality of what life is all about.  To answer the quest of what God expects from us is to attempt to discern the need for his desire to create us.  Does God need humanity?  Is he lonely?  After all, before we were even a thought God is a triune divinity, three equal persons in one entity of eternity.  He also created angels before breathing life into the nostrils of man.  There was no loneliness in heaven.  

The answer to so many mysteries of God is the depth of his love.  God created man to worship him, not that he needed that, but that humanity would love him just like he loved us.  “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God;  everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.  Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.”  (1 Jn 4: 7 - 8). 

Do the angels love God?  Of course they do.  Does God love them as well?  Certainly since everything God created he loves without even questioning it.  

Can we find the same tenure in ourselves to love God as he loves us?  That is the one question that each of us must search within ourselves.  To answer the title “what God expects from us” remains how we see ourselves in God’s creation of understanding loving God  like he loves us.

It is through this essence of love in spite of the many obstacles we encounter, God’s love never wanes, and neither should ours as well.  This is what God seeks from you and me!

Ralph B. Hathaway