God and Me

God and Me

                Once upon a time, God made me. He poured Himself out and formed me in His image and likeness, for His pleasure and glory. He made me out of an abundance of Love, much like a couple in love decide to have children that are a result of love, to share their happiness with, to teach and show the beauty that their love is and to want them to have what they have. That's why He made me. Because He wanted to show me what He had done, who He was and the beauty of Himself. He wanted offsprings of His family, The Trinity, To love, to embody the completeness of what they share; what they are.

                He made me because He wanted to. He saw how good His creation was, how beautiful the animals were as they birthed their own kind, how much fuller it made life; that a kind will reproduce its kind and have more of itself to love and to teach and to guide and to enjoy, and He made me after His Kind. In His infinite beauty and magnificense, we all came. God is All and All come from Him. White, black, yellow, brown... All from His awesomeness. If there were only one-coloured people, with one-coloured eyes and hair and figures, then God would be Just that. But God is so full, so complete, the only complete being, so all that came from Him was all the different colours and textures and wonderful things. Add us all up and you get one beautiful and majestic God! Amazing, so amazing it beats our best imaginations.

                But we disobeyed. And we could not see Him anymore. We could not hear Him teach us about Himself and Life, could not enjoy the beauty of our existence in the simplicity that He made us to. We lost our source of Life, our reason for being. We began to struggle just to live from day to day. It became about Us, instead of about Him; about His way, His reason, His pleasure. He took pleasure from us experiencing all that He made and watching us wonder at the beauty of it all, from us simply being like Him, little versions of Him, coming together in perfect harmony, a perfect family, Us and Him.

                Our reason was simple: Be.

                But we forgot how to be. We lost how to be. We stopped being when we lost our connection to God. Because the only reason we could just be was we were connected to our Father, the Creator - King, the only one who took care of us, showed us Life, taught us mysteries and gave us everything. No connection meant fending for ourselves, meant thinking about ourselves instead of about life and living; there was more focus on what we can do to survive, instead of what God had already done and already given. This was the consequence of our disobedience. The more we focused on us, the farther we went away from Him; and the farther we went, the more evil we discovered we were capable of.

                But in His mercy, His infinite mercy, He saved us from our suffering! You see, through the years, some men had kept their eyes on Him. Though they could not see Him anymore or hear Him, they worshipped Him. They acknowledged Him as the giver of Life and the creator of the world. And they honored Him. God used these people to try to show others how good He was and how much He loved them and wanted the best for them. If they only turned their eyes from themselves and looked to the One who made them, they would be free. He would teach them again, about love and family, about food and beauty; He would take care of them again. They would not need to think about survival. They would just BE, enjoying His creation and giving Him glory. But just men as examples were not enough to show His love to the others. So He sent His Son, His Only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in Him, believed tha He was who He said He was, believed that He alone could repair the lost connection to their Father, would be saved and would live with Him forever! Just like He intended from the beginning!

                Jesus, the Son of God, came for Us. He died on the cross, shed His blood as a sacrifice, paying for all our wrongs, so that His Father, Our Father, could once again look upon us, through the blood of Jesus that cleanses us, and say, "Come, child". We could, once again call Him "Father", and He would Hear. He would show us Life like He wanted to, teach us Love like He is, show us beauty like we have never seen, give us everything that we could ever need, on earth and in Heaven, when we go home.

                What does it all really mean?

                It means that if we want to really live, live the way we were made to, for the purpose that we were made, then we have to take our eyes off of ourselves, and look to Jesus. He is our way, He is our connection to Home. We look and we look and we keep looking, until we go back home. He will teach us, show us, prepare us. And when we are ready, He will present us to our Father like we were in the beginning, and we will live Happily Ever After.