The other day I was out on one of my regular walks, talking with the Lord the way I often do. Walking has become a time when I speak openly with Him, sharing what is on my heart and mind. As I walked, two questions kept rising within me. “Lord, why did You create humans in the first place, knowing how wicked we would become?” “And who am I that You would still think of me with love?”
Those questions stayed with me as I walked. I had been reading about the things happening in our world, and the weight of it was hard to ignore. Everywhere you look there seems to be more wickedness. Violence fills the news. Nations rise against nations. Lies are accepted as truth, and truth is rejected. Families fall apart, and many people openly turn away from God.
When I think about it, God existed long before this world was ever formed. Before the earth, before the stars, before time itself, God simply was. He lacked nothing and needed nothing from His creation. Yet He chose to create mankind in His image, giving us the ability to know Him and to walk in relationship with Him.
In the beginning, that relationship was real. God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. There was no distance between the Creator and His creation. But humanity chose its own way, and sin entered the world. The wickedness we see around us today is the result of that separation from God.
Yet even in the condition we have become, God’s intention toward us has never changed. His intention was love. Not because we deserved it, and not because we remained faithful, but because His love is greater than our sin.
The greatest proof of that love is what God was willing to do for us. He did not remain distant from our broken world. Instead, He entered it. God became a man in Jesus Christ. The Creator stepped into His own creation and took on the limitations of humanity. He felt hunger, exhaustion, sorrow, rejection, and suffering. He lived among the very people who would misunderstand Him, mock Him, and ultimately crucify Him.
Yet He came anyway. He came because even in our sin, God still loved the people He created. And if the Creator of the universe was willing to enter our broken world, carry our suffering, and give His life for us, then perhaps the answer to those questions becomes clearer.
We may not fully understand why God chose to love us. But the cross leaves no doubt that He does.