Introduction
Psalm 139:13-14
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…”
Man's creation is as result of His great and overflowing Love within the Trinitarian cycle and He created Man with so much love and care.
God lacked nothing, He is enough in Himself, He has enough glory, enough love etc and does not need man to complement any dimension of Himself.
God created us because He wanted us.
Our lives are not some meaningless creation made by a disinterested Creator. Even though God does not need us, He is still intensely interested in our lives. He deeply and tenderly loves us beyond comprehension—not because He has to (out of need), but because He chooses to (out of love).
On the other hand, it is the healthy couple who says, “Because we have an abundance of love in our marriage, let’s share it. Let’s have babies who will look like us, have our life within them, and love like us.
Then they can enjoy an intimate love relationship with us.” It is this couple’s pure love that motivates them to give children life.
In eternity, I imagine God having a holy huddle and saying, “We have such a great life together and an over abundance of love, let’s share it. Let Us make humanity in Our image so that they can love like Us. Then they can enjoy an intimate relationship with Us.”
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”Genesis 1:26
In the great love chapter, the Apostle Paul says that true love “does not seek its own.” This means that love is not selfish or self-centered. God did not keep His life and love to Himself, but He shared it. He breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living soul. God created humanity because “He is love,” not for what humanity could do for Him.
God did not need the world or need people because God has no lack. Instead, God is so full of all that is good, that it overflows and spills out of him. His very nature is to share his goodness, grace and love. He created people out of love for the purpose of sharing love. People were created to love God and each other. Additionally, when God created people, he gave them good work to do so that they might experience God’s goodness and reflect his image in the way they care for the world and for each other. They were created without flaw or sin and God intended that they live this way eternally.
When God created people he also gave them free will so that they could freely share in his love. They were not robots who had no choice. Instead, God gave people the opportunity to either receive and live in his love or to reject him. Giving people free will dignified their choices and recognized the image of God within them. After creating them, God told the first humans that there was one boundary they could not cross in order to live in fellowship with him. However, the first people chose to cross that line and disobey God’s instruction. In doing so, they severed their relationships with God and each other and ushered sin, decay, corruption and death into the world. The perfect world was now broken.
However, God is good, and God is light. God did not want people to live in brokenness, darkness and separation. So, he set about making the broken world right so that people could be forgiven, healed, restored and made whole. Hence the word of God in Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
He also decided to bring His aged Long desire to be with Man before the foundation of the world as described in proverbs 8: 24-34.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: 28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: 29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: 30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; 31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
God put His glory, His divinity aside in other to bridge the gap between Him and humanity in order to bring this purpose into reality. He took flesh by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the blessed virgin Mary as recorded in Luke 1:37-38 For no word from God will ever fail. I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.
Mary bacome the first channel created by God for divinity to access humanity directly.
Jesus Christ, fully God, became fully human and showed people how to live in God’s kingdom. The kingdom of God is anywhere the presence, rule and influence of God reigns in the lives of people. Mary being the temple of God allowed Jesus Christ our Emmanuel to reign in her life. When she gave birth to Jesus, He lived and reigned among men showing people how to live in the kingdom of God, He opened another and the most powerful channel for divinity's meeting with humanity, in the institution of the Holy Eucharist during His last supper as the scripture recorded in Luke 22:19-20 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
With these words He transferred His divinity into the Bread and Wine . My brother and sisters in Christ, in the Holy Mass divinity meets with humanity at the alter rail during communion where He in His holiness and majesty through the hands of His priests enters His people. He doesn't meet them to leave them after the meeting but he enters them just like He entered Mary He reigns in our temples through the power of His divinity received at the alter rail.
When He finished at the upper room Jesus then willingly gave His own life as a sacrifice to pay for the sin that people had ushered into the world. After three days, Jesus rose from the dead, demonstrating God’s ultimate power over death and conquering the power that sin had held on the lives of people.
In this Holy meeting of divinity and humanity, man has been divinized through the merits and mercies inherent in the pascal mystery represented in the celebration of Easter.
So, my brothers and sisters we have come to the end of today's reflection and we pray that God will open our eyes to understand that Holy Mass is a replay of life, suffering, death and resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ so that we will deeply cooperate with God in order to manifest effectively the life of God on earth. Through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with the Father and Holy Spirit God forever and ever Amen.
PEACE AND GOODNESS
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