Our God is a personal God, and it gives Him pleasure to have other beings He can have a genuine relationship with. He - the Almighty and Omnipotent - has No need for us. This Psalm traditionally assigned to King David says the same thing.
Human beings have the ability to know God and therefore love Him, worship Him, serve Him, and fellowship with Him as we are made in the image and likeness of God (ref Genesis 1:27).
This brings us to our duty - one borne out of Love- and responsibility to our maker.
The Bible - I am familiar with, the KJV - calls it “The fear of the Lord". That is just Victorian English for what we would today call “reverential fear” and is characterized by a deep respect and awe for God. Even the Second Person in the Holy Trinity had it 👇
God intended his creation - us- to have it too. For the scripture states -
Just as God is the perfect Saviour, He is also the perfect judge.God the Father redeemed us from the clutches of the evil one by the substitutionary, sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Old Testament:
New Testament:
Infact, this was the only way to satisfy both these attributes of His (ref Romans 3:24–26).
This is in short what God wants of us. We hear more about these people when St Paul said :
God meant Adam to live forever, without sickness or blemish, in perfect communion with Him and the Garden. But the Fall (ref Genesis 3) changed all that. The work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross meant that we were not doomed forever - “… for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” [Genesis 3:19; KJV]
Infact, God had already planned to restore people to their original purpose and even the Book of Job testified to this.
So God is not responsible for us staying here, we are.
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