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What Does God Want?
It may seem strange to ponder what God might want. Doesn’t he already have everything? After all, he made everything. So what in all creation, or what is waiting to be created, does God not have? What is it that God could want?
The prophet Micah said that God wants us to be fair, just and merciful and to walk humbly with our God. Imagine that. God, who created us and could destroy us at will, wants something from us.
What God wants is very similar to what we often want from our own children and grandchildren. Look again at Micah’s words: be fair, just and merciful and walk humbly with your God. In other words, God wants us to behave and be nice to each other. So, why then doesn’t he just make us?
He doesn’t make us because he gave us free choice. In my limited understanding, that is the meaning behind the story of the Garden of Eden. God gave us a great world to live in and gave us, as humans, a great capacity for doing wonderful things. But, there also exists evil in both the world and in the hearts of humans. It may be a controversial idea but God created them too. The Gospel of John tells us that Jesus was with God before anything else existed and even suggests that Jesus is God himself. Then in Chapter 1 verse 3: He created everything there is — — nothing exists that he didn’t make.
