Why did He create us in the first place?

Have you ever wondered why we exist?  Why are we here and alive on this earth?  I

know the questions seem childish or maybe immature or even foolish to some extent.

There's a period of time in everyone's life when they ask themselves a similar question

as to the meaning of the universe and why we all wear cloths and bleed red and smell

funny and look different.  I suppose for some the answers to these questions are sought

after for their entire lives until the day they come to some place of contentment and

decide there's no more sense in seeking out answers they will never find.


Last week I was attending a conference at my new church here in Texas.  Well, it was a

woman's conference so I was working more so than attending.

I was standing off to the side of the stage at my post sort of zoning out and half

listening to the guest speaker.  As I stood there my mind began thinking about the

history of the world prior to Genesis 1.  From what I can remember of the Bible and

its history, satan was an angel in heaven at one point.  He tried to take over the throne

and was kicked out of heaven for eternity being sentenced to a period of time on earth

and then a period of time in hell.  The book of Genesis says before God began to

create the beauty of earth the earth was void and without form and darkness

covered everything.  I don't know how much time stretched from when satan was

sentenced to earth and God began to create everything but knowing Him I would

guess it was a decent amount of time.


Satan is sentenced to earth.  I wonder what the earth looked like before satan arrived.

Was it beautiful before?  Was there light before he arrived?  Genesis says darkness

covered everything.  Was there any darkness before his banishment?  Did darkness

exist before the banishment?

The bible also says God knew us before we were born, before we were in our mothers

womb He knew us.  I know the words are not expressed in the Bible but I like to

picture this verse as also saying that I knew Him before I was in my mothers womb.


We are made of three parts.  Spirt, Soul, and Body.  We know when these bodies

live to the end of their time that our spirits will still exist in either heaven or

hell.  At least Christians believe this to be true and so do I.  When the Bible says God

knew us before we were in our mothers womb it is speaking of our Spirit.

Again, I like to think I knew God in heaven before I was conceived.  I like to

imagine I had a relationship with Him, that I would take walks with Him and

play catch or go fishing.  For some reason I don't have those memories with me

while I am inhabiting this body.  But when I feel His presence it's like I'm sort of

remembering how good my spirit had it in heaven.  When He invades my space It's not

just that I can feel Him in the atmosphere at that moment but it's also like I am getting a

sense of being back home.

It's like moving away and years later seeing something or catching a scent that

reminds you of home.  That's what it's like when we feel Him with us on earth.


So satan is banished to earth, it's a dark place and void of anything sustainable.

God decides to create something in its place.  He begins His six day adventure and

at the end we are left with the pure and innocent beauty of the earth.

Then everything goes south.  Adam and Eve have their fall and the rest of us are

forced to deal with the consequences.


Standing in church last week I couldn't help but wonder why God sent us here in the

first place.  He'd banished satan to this dark and gloomy planet.  He has relationship

with us, His children while we're in heaven.  At least that's what I believe.

So why send us here in the first place?  Was it to screw with the devil?  I think it's

funny how the book of Job was the earliest writing of all the books in the Bible.

Without getting into the drama and debates that is the book of Job let's just say

Job gets beat up pretty bad from satan and in the end chooses to still follow God.

Are our lives simply the same as Job's just forever repeating until we die?

I just don't get it.  satan was defeated, there was no earth, there were no humans,

our spirits were already in relationship with Him, He'd already won the war before

there even was a war.  Why create all this in the first place?


This may sound like a crisis of faith and I don't mean it to sound that way.  I firmly trust

in God and believe in Jesus and salvation only through Him.  I just can't shake the

feeling that there's something simple here that I'm missing and that once I discover

it, well I guess everything will make sense at that moment.


Please, let me know what I'm missing here.  Maybe just pray that I find the answer

I'm looking for and in some way understand it.