The Purpose is God and His Goodness

I often get the impression that folks have the Creator/created role backwards. Man was created for God, in servitude of His goodness, not the other way around. God doesn’t serve. We do.

It would appear that many believe that they were created as a gift to God, as opposed to a gift from God. Many seem to think that the individual is to be left alone to do their own thing, if something goes wrong in their life, then all they have to do is go to God and get their problem fixed or wishes granted. Other than that, the working belief is that man is to be left to his own devices and to go along his own merry ol’ way.

No. We were created for a purpose, and that purpose is God and His goodness. His goodness is His essence, His being. The end effect of the cause, righteousness. All are one in simplicity. That’s what we are here for.

God does not exist for us. We were created for God. God will help us in the cause of Him and His goodness. Anything else is sin. The first sin was pride. Adam and Eve thought more highly of themselves, their wants and wishes, so they departed from God and His goodness to do their own thing.

Please understand. We are not essential to God’s being or goodness. He, however is essential, to ours. We were created for His glory!

“Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.” (Isaiah 43:7)

“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.” (Revelation 4:11)

“For God wills other things as ordered to the end of His goodness….Since the Divine goodness can be without other things, and indeed, is in no way increased by other things, it is under no necessity to will other things from the fact of willing its own goodness.” -Thomas Aquinas/Summa Contra Gentiles/Volume One/Chapter 81.

We were created for God’s goodness and glory!

Bill Hitchcock