We read in Genesis 1:26 (Amplified), "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth and over everything that creeps upon the earth."
The reason God created man, was for fellowship. Love must have a way to give, in order to fulfill it's own demands. Without having someone or something to express itself, Love is unfulfilled in itself. 1John 4:16 (Amplified) says, "And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of) by observation, and by experience, and believe (adhere to, and put faith in and rely on), the Love God cherishes for us, God Is Love, and he that dwells and continues in Love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him."
The great heart of God sent Jesus into this earth to die in our place, in order to bring us back to Him. 1Peter 3:18 (Amplified) says, "For Christ, the Messiah Himself, died for sins once for all, the Righteous for the unrighteous, the Just for the unjust, the Innocent for the guilty, that He might bring us to God. In His human body He was put to death, but He was made alive in the Spirit." Jesus gave Himself as an act of Love, in order to bring us back to God's Love and fellowship with Him.
All of the Blessing and authority that God gave mankind in the beginning, has been restored back to God's family, through Jesus. The greatest thing that has been restored, is our relationship with the Father. We've allowed our relationship with the Father to become religion, with a list of do's and don'ts we must follow, in order to be in good standing with "a God," like the world. It's not a religion, but a relationship we have with a Father Who loves us and desires that we be family with Him again.
Worship isn't just singing, bowing and dancing before Him, but it's fellowshiping with Him in our daily lives. God had worship in Heaven before man was created. The angels and all of the Heavenly beings, were always before Him in worship, but they weren't in His Image and Likeness. God didn't have anyone on His level of life, who could fellowship and walk with Him as family. The Father desires a family who He could to teach, who could walk with Him, and who could spend time in His Presence. We worship Him as God, but we also fellowship with Him as Father. There's a difference in this relationship. Worship is a way of life for the family of God.
We're not going to spend eternity, sitting in a field of grass and singing to God, but we'll be learning, walking, fellowshiping and being His children. I don't believe that Adam spent all of his time, on his face before God. I believe the Father took Adam into the earth, so he could name all the animals. God taught him about the trees and seeds and how to live in this natural earth, God had created for him. God intended to watch His family grow before Him and enjoy them. God would see to it that His family would never have a need or a want, that He as a Loving Father, wouldn't meet.
God sees His family as being the greatest thing in this vast universe He created. What good would this planet be, without family? Do the animals understand and know why God made all things? Do they enjoy all of the flowers and beauty of this creation, as God made it? Only mankind can truly appreciate the glory of the flowers, the difference between all the species of life, and the beauty of God's Plan. There are still things of beauty in the depths of the seas and in the universe, that would please and demonstrate the depths of God's creation and Glory to mankind.
I don't believe the animals understand all of the glory of what God did on this planet, but man was to be excited and Blessed by the splendor of the home God made for us. Man had access to God's Own Throne Room and the Glory of His Presence and Love, at all times, before Adam's fall. I remember watching TV, when President JFK had gathered some of the most important men in the world, together in the Oval Office. Everyone was focused on what he would say, when his son John-John crawled out from under the President's desk. He was the President's son and wasn't to be denied or cast out of the room, even during the most important thing the President had to do.
Do you know that there's nothing in this great universe, as important to the Father, than you? Do you understand that we've been bought and restored back into His constant fellowship? The most important thing in God's Life, is spending time with His children. He is our Father. He is God, but this Awesome God is also our Father. Nothing is big enough or important enough to keep Him from us or keep us from Him, even if it was sin and death. He Himself removed the barrier of sin and death from between us and restored us back, as though it had never existed. This is the Love that we're to know, like 1John 4:16 says.
We've sought God in our times of need and we've called on Him when things go wrong. He, in His Love, always answers us, but what He really desires is that we simply live with Him Presence and lavish us with His Love. He doesn't want us to come only when we need help, but to talk and spend time with Him, as our Father. I don't want my kids to come home for Thanksgiving dinner and lavish me with praise, but to come to the table and share in God's Blessing with me, as family. I know my kids love me and they tell me that all the time. It's much more important to me, if I can enjoy their love for me by their spending time in fellowship with me. That's more a part of that love, as anything I desire for them.
God doesn't have an ego that needs our telling Him "How great He is" and we must do this, or He'll get mad at us. Like me, God knows His children love Him, when they spend time with Him. This might sound strange to your ears, but not to your spirit. Do I worship God? Yes, a thousand times Yes, but more than that, I spend time getting to know Him and spending time in His Presence. This is why Jesus came; to bring us back to the Father. Not just to take us to Heaven, but to open the door both ways in our lives. Jesus not only opened the door, but He became the Door, according to John 10:9 (Amplified), where Jesus says, "I Am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved, will live; He will come in and he will go out freely, and will find pasture."
This Door doesn't only allow us into the Father's Presence, but allows the Father to once again, come into our presence. This was His Intention from the beginning. Until Jesus, God was shut off from living in and through, His Own family. He could come upon men for a time, but He couldn't live in them, like before Adam's transgression.
We've been taught many things about our Father, some were good, while other things weren't good. Even if you've learned good things about Him, don't exchange "what you know" for Who you know. If you don't know Him, then it's only religion and not relationship. We already have been given everything that Heaven has, when we received Jesus. We will not understand what we have, until we understand the One Who gave it and the reason He did it.
We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. This is God's Plan to restore us back to Himself. We have lost nothing, but gained everything. God created mankind in order to have a family and that family has been reinstated and Love is the result. Don't seek what the Father can do for you, but seek the Father and everything He has already done for you. Spend time just talking to Him and learning at His feet. He will show you things you'll never learn without fellowship with Him.
Am I saying, "Don't worship Him?" No! John 4:23-24 (Amplified) says, "A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers. God is a Spirit (a Spirit Being), and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (reality)."
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