REASONING WITH YOUR CREATOR
by G.C. Ogbonna
INTRODUCTION
“Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”(Isa.1:18-20).
A careful study of the history of creation from the book of Genesis chapter one, reveals that God created everything in sequence taking cognizance of the needs of the next creature. What He created on the first day were for the benefit of the things created on the second day and those of the second day were for the benefits of those on the third day and so on and so forth. Ultimately, the things God created from the first day to the sixth day were created for the benefit of man. The scripture recorded that man was the last of God’s creatures. However, it is clear from every indication that while God was creating other creatures, He had man in His mind. God had the intention for man to rule over all His other creatures even before He created him. Before man was created God summoned the Trinity and said, “---Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”(Gen.1:26). This agreement was reached and sealed by the Trinity in heaven before man was created. At the point of his creation, God breathed into him and man became a living soul. This breath of God was His nature trans-fused into man. In other words, the nature of holiness and righteousness was imparted into man by God.
After the creation of man, God deliberately decided to focus His attention on him above all other creatures. God became so much interested in man because he was and still is the only creature...