What Does God Want?

What Does God Want?

God wants the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth through happy families beginning with one man and one woman and their children. Had Eve and Adam adhered to God’s one command, they would have grown to physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual maturity as God’s daughter and God’s son, thus embodying God’s Word and God’s Will, and fulfilling the First Blessing of becoming fruitful expressed in Genesis 1:28. Then Adam and Eve would have been personally blessed by God in Holy Matrimony as husband and wife, thus enabling them to have children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations, thereby fulfilling the Second Blessing to “multiply and fill the Earth” with godly humans. Finally, having been created with both physical and spiritual bodies, Adam and Eve and their progeny for countless generations would fulfill the Third Blessing of having Dominion over both the physical and spiritual realms of Creation, thus fulfilling the Third Blessing.

It’s all very simple and it’s all right there in Genesis Chapters 1 and 2. We just have to read it time and time again, ponder it, and pray about it until we understand it and then live it as God’s children, partners, and co-creators to make it happen. Think of Genesis 1 & 2 as a blueprint or proposal, a plan to be carried out and accomplished through time and effort. God will not do it alone, because He gave us freedom and choice. God is Love, God is Good, God is Creator. Everything He creates is good and is created for a good purpose. What, then, is sin and evil? Sin and evil are to deviate from God’s Good Purposes. Eve had a choice, Adam had a choice, Cain had a choice. God loved Cain so much that He gave him a very clear and detailed warning about the choice Cain was facing; but Cain does not listen and in the very next verse, he kills Abel.

That God wants families and generational wisdom is so clear from the Bible! When Moses asks God, “Who are you?” in Exodus 3, God answers, “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Enoch walked with God, but God does not say, “I am the God of Enoch.” Noah was a righteous man and saved himself and his family from the Flood Judgment through faith and obedience by spending a hundred years to build the Ark, but God does not say, “I am the God of Noah.” Nor does God say simply, “I am the God of Abraham,” who offered to sacrifice his only son, the son he loved, in obedience to God. God wants multiple generations of godly families, living in joy and happiness in this lovely world God created to be our home. God says of Abraham in Genesis 18:19, “I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice.” Abraham was a wealthy man and had a considerable household, as we learn in Genesis 14. When his nephew Lot is captured by brigands, Abraham “armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his house” and rescues Lot and all his possessions without the loss of a single life.

That God gives us freedom of choice and wants us to be partners and co-creators with Him is obvious from the story of Noah. God gave Noah precise instructions on how to build the Ark, but God did not build it for him. Noah built that Ark. So, too, with the Tabernacle in the Wilderness: God gave instructions to Moses, and the men of Israel built the Tabernacle under the direction of Moses. Likewise with Solomon’s Temple. Our human responsibility is to partner with God.

God has always  wanted to live with us, as He says, for example, in Jeremiah 31:31-34 -- “I will make a New Covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah. … I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. … They shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord.”