Why Did God Create the Universe?
Again, we must remember that if we want to understand God we must first look at ourselves for we are in his image. The question to ask then is why do we create?
The answer is quite simple. We create because we enjoy the challenge and when the creation reaches its envisioned end we achieve a degree of satisfaction and happiness. A life without creative endeavors is a pretty boring and unfulfilling one. Sooner or later we all want to do something challenging, useful and constructive. This even applies to God.
So why did God create all there is? The same reason we create. Creating the universe and then occupying it with his life essence was a major challenge. Guiding the universe toward his desired end is an even bigger one.
He is far from being all powerful to the extent that he can just snap his fingers and make everything work just right. Like us he finds himself in the middle of a life and has to figure out how to deal with it.
The difference is that his life is on a much vaster scale extending over trillions of worlds and billions of years.
You and I would probably get frustrated over such a tremendous project, but not God. He moves ever onward toward completion and depends in part on the cooperation of you and me for his own progression. That turns out to be a major problem for him because few of us are in alignment with his will. The fact that God can get anything done when he has to use the tiny lives within his creation to assist him is a miracle in itself.
Other parts of the universe are much more cooperative than humans have been, but God has faith that we will eventually learn our lessons and sense there is a greater plan than our own little lives and cooperate.
Once we collectively realize that we are a part of something greater than ourselves and work for the good of the whole, as well as ourselves, then the progress God seeks to make with his own life will be enhanced.
It is a fallacy to think that God does not need anything, let alone have a need for us. He needs everything within his creation to fulfill his vision, even you and me.
When you think about it, it makes life just a little more meaningful when you realize that God needs us, just as we need him.
Copyright by J J Dewey
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