Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
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All thing were and are created for God's pleasure. Another word used in place of pleasure is 'will'. This is from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible-
Rev 4:11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honour and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.
Because of God's will all things are and were created. It's by God's will that we exist. Too many people like to take the verse and use 'pleasure' and they expound on God being sadistic getting pleasure from our suffering. Nothing was created by God to suffer. That suffering occurs is something that will be rectified, not kept as if it were a cherished condition of mankind. God did NOT want sin to enter the world He'd created. The result of sin grieved Him, angered Him. God could have ended mankind right then and there after that first sin. As He'd brought mankind into existence He could have ended that existence. How often do we throw things away when a single flaw occurs in it? Some people will be able to answer all the time, others will say never, I fall in between there. I don't like to discard something because of single flaw. I might work crocheting an afghan and look back and see a missed stitch and depending on how noticeable, and how it affects the overall afghan I might just leave it there, not unravel everything to fix a tiny flaw. Of course we like to believe that in really important things that even the tiniest flaw would be unacceptable- such as surgery, or in the manufacturing of our various products, we want things as unflawed as possible especially if we're paying for them. God could have rejected us, and some might argue should have rejected us, but those people have to realize the very fact they can have that thought is because God willed them into existence.
Creating us and allowing us to continue in spite of our failure to live for Him in hopes that among all the millions and billions of people brought into existence there would be those who would desire His will, desire His laws, desire a covenant with Him is a magnificent revelation of love towards mankind.
Psa 105:4 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
Psa 105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth
Psa 105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Psa 105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
Psa 105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
Psa 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
God had a plan of salvation ready much the same way any smart person has a contingency plan when they are undertaken something monumental. They people put on the task of -If something goes wrong then this is what we do- back up plans. Some really fantastical endeavors have teams of people going over and over a situation trying to come up with all feasible ways something could go wrong, even the wildest craziest of scenarios are brought into play and then when a good amount of time is spend doing this every single scenario is examined and for each of them the possible outcomes to rectify the problem. This doesn't mean things don't still happen that weren't thought of but most planners of such things will do all they can to foresee problems and create possible solutions. Best case scenario is that no contingency plan will be necessary- everything goes as desired- as planned. But sometimes that worst case scenario occurs and then the plan for that goes into effect. We understand on our level of comprehension that having contingency plans are a good idea. How can anyone truly disagree that having contingency plans is a bad idea? Maybe some will say that having contingency plans allows for a less focused, less determined person to get the plan right the first time, and they might be right but planning for the unthinkable, planning for the worst case scenario especially when lives are at stake is a must. You hope for the best, plan for the worst.
God hoped for the best and planned for the worst. If He hadn't planned for the worst we most likely would never have been allowed to live as a species.
God allowed us to continue to live and multiply all in the belief that there would be those who would choose to love Him. When we worship God, when we obey God's commands, when we surrender ourselves to Him we do it ALL out of love for Him. God created a people that He could call His, a people that would follow Him out of love. Abraham LOVED God, and from Abraham these people came. But not all of those people chose to love God. The people were eventually taken into captivity. The people were shown the dark depths of oppression under the hand of the god-less. Then the people were delivered from that oppression by the hand of God. Why?
Psa 105:42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
Psa 105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
Psa 105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
Psa 105:45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
That they might observe his statutes and keep his laws.
That they might follow God.
That they might choose God as the One to obey.
That they might understand the Love of God towards them- their Deliverer.
This amazing event in the history of mankind is a prophetic revelation of a greater plan of God's.
We are enslaved to sin, we are captives of Satan, none can escape the fact they are born with the propensity towards sinning. God understood that this enslavement of mankind under an evil master needed a Deliverer. The Deliverer would free mankind from the captivity of Satan allowing them to claim the Deliverer's righteousness as theirs. The Deliverer would free mankind and allow them to choose to worship God, to keep His commandments, to love God. Unlike an entire group of people being brought out of a captive nation, this Deliverer would offer deliverance to ALL people no matter who, no matter where, all would have an opportunity to follow their Deliverer throughout their lives.
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Our God is worthy to receive glory and honor and power.
Our God created all things by His will.
We can't allow ourselves to forget or disbelieve that we are CREATED beings. Too many have forgotten this, way too many. They've philosophized away creation and this suits Satan's plan perfectly. If we stop believing we are all the result of the first God created beings who received the breath of life from God to pass on and on to all generations of mankind then we are left floundering with all sorts of theories- none fully explainable, none.
By faith we believe. And many will save faith is senseless, but the very nature of faith is the acceptance that we need to believe without having full evidence of the seen. Adam and Eve were to live by faith in God and they chose not to do that. They chose to believe the seductive voice of another, one who had nothing to do with their creation. They wanted to live without faith and Satan promised them they would be as God knowing good and evil, in effect they wouldn't need to live by faith in God because they'd be gods. They were tragically wrong. Without faith in God, without faith in our Creator we have nothing. It is more than obvious that living without faith results in tragedy yet many choose to live without faith in God, still hoping they can be like gods themselves and all they're left with in the end is a deep down dissatisfaction with things they absolutely cannot control and have no ability to control. Not even the richest, smartest person in the world can control life and their ultimate end, not ONE, yet most of mankind still insists they are very wise to believe in themselves and not in God. That belief gives them no hope, none at all, they'll be left empty. A belief in our Creator gives us all things through our Savior, our Deliverer, our Redeemer- we have hope.
By His amazing LOVE, His amazing GRACE, His amazing RIGHTEOUSNESS, all through His amazing FAITH.
May His will be done, may His kingdom come!
Amen.
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