Journey Through the Cross
Forty Days of Devotions on the Greatest Event of all Time.
Day 2: Good
…and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:4
God created the pristine earth with unspoiled wilderness, perfect mountains, magnificent seas, and drenched it all in purest light.
When He made the light He declared it “good”.
The firmaments: Good.
Land and sea, herb and animal, sun and moon: Good, good, good.
Seven times God proclaimed that in His Creation all was well; all was good.
And then something was “not good”.
Now how could anything in God’s new world, a world untouched by sin, be considered anything other than “good”? What was the incompletion, the lack in God’s otherwise perfect creation of good things?
And the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone…” Genesis 2:18
Loneliness had shown up in God’s perfect world, and had become the single point of need in all creation.
But it was not just a thing lacking, and certainly not an oversight on the Creator’s part. This loneliness was a vestige of the void and emptiness of the world created originally in darkness. And it was a specter of what drove God to create in the first place.
Adam, the man alone, is creation’s masterpiece and therefore a piece of the Master. He is created in the image of God, and displays the heart of God in ways the rest of creation cannot. So if it is not good that man in the image of God should be alone, then it is not good that God should be alone either.
Now how could it be possible that God Almighty, the Self-existent, TriUne Godhead, infinite in holiness and glory could have need of anything? Creatures He had, worlds of property, multitudes of servants both humble and fantastic, so how could He be lonely?
And yet there it is: a Self-portrait of God as a picture of loneliness, and a Self-description as being One, solo, alone.
In His creation He made light and dark, night and day, heaven and earth, dry land and seas, male and female, all in pairs. But with Him there was only “one”, only Him. He was evening without morning, sun without moon. He had much, but He didn’t have the Other, the Companion, the Fulfillment. He had an infinite capacity for love but no one upon whom to lavish that love.
And so the same was true of His son Adam. This man like his Creator was faced with the ache of loneliness, and it was not good to be alone.
Consider for a moment that if this is indeed true, then mankind’s God-given mission, purpose in life and reason for existing is to satisfy the original, most profound and important need in existence.
You and I exist to fill the loneliness of God.
Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.” Mark 12:29-30
Genesis 2:18
Mark 12:29-30
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