Project Mankind

God has been around forever, but let's quantify that as multi-millions of millennia for the purpose of this post - yet mankind has only a 6000-odd year history. What has God been doing for all that time, before we came onto the scene? Mankind and Earth is a recent - and current - development! That is interesting, but how does that impact on our relationship with Him?

Funnily enough, I've been inspired by two previous blog posts that I wrote - the idea for which just seemed to pop into my head - "Imagine...." and "Project Earth". In the post "Imagine", I posed the question about  what God might have been busy with in all that time before us. I was fascinated by what may have been created out there! Pondering the thought afterwards, I suddenly realized the impact of the fact that our 6000 year history wasn't anywhere near the beginning or middle of His multi-millennial activities, but tagged onto the end, or present; that we are virtually a current project after all that time, and the post "Project Earth" followed.

Those two thoughts have had a major impact on my perception of God and our relationship with Him.

God is not idle. He never has been. He has been creating and administrating for probably millions of millennia and more. What mighty civilizations has he established in His realm? Our 6000 years must be a very new and current project to Him, even though it may seem like a long time to us. Who are we, therefore, to think that we know so much - and to judge and contend with God? Suddenly I find it very frightening to think that such a large proportion of the occupants of Planet Earth rebel and actually condescend to God in so many ways in our attitudes towards Him.

The way Mankind lives, the way we conduct our lives, the values that we adopt that are so foreign to His instructions, the way we condescend, so often, in our attitudes towards Him and His values, places us in a  very dangerous position! 'Condescend', in that so many relegate Him to being just a concept, or a mere 'figurehead' with great ideas, but in theory rather than in practice.

I can only imagine what he might think of us as a whole when He looks down on this planet and our activities; and I shudder. I shudder because He has so much power, and such advanced civilizations, that I can only imagine what He is capable of when His anger at us waxes hot.

We need to repent. This planet as a whole needs to wake up to our puny, selfish, destructive little statures and humble ourselves before the Almighty God. We need to do it with trembling; and we need to do it fast.