Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
John 1:1-5
We Need the WORD
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
Matthew 6:33
Seek Him and His Kingdom
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Deuteronomy 4:29
29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
We need the Word...God has put this need in us from the beginning...God created us and He made us in His image and His likeness...
God is love...God gives us free will...God gives us complete free will because He loves us...Love has to be a choice...Love cannot be forced...If we want someone to love us, it has to be what they want, their choice...A one-sided affair is not love...If we try to force someone to love us, it does not work and it is not love...God in giving us free will actually gives us a choice to seek Him or not seek Him, to love Him or not to love Him...Love is giving your complete self to one, you cannot commit your heart to two lovers or two spouses...God wants all of us too...He wants our complete love...And when we search for Him, He wants us to do it with all our heart and all our soul, and not half-heartedly...
When we are very happy, we do not want to be controlled by anyone, we are in charge...At those times, we want to be in charge...However, during tragedies and suffering, free will and control has less importance to most of us...When things start to go downhill, then we look to God...We then need help from our LORD...When we are troubled and in trouble, we wish that God was more in control and that He would take care of our troubles...We pray to Him, and want Him more in control of our lives...When things are going well, especially when we are young, we feel we are on top of the world, and we want this complete unfettered free will...But this happiness, and problem of our pain, and our free will seems to be more like a paradox...When we are in trouble we want less free will...When things are going great, we want complete free will...But God is always there...We should not pray on day for His help and in our lives helping, and the next day when things are better, have Him out of our lives...He wants all of all and not part of us...He wants all our heart and all our soul...
When we are very happy and without Him, we are still restless...Even in our moments of the happiest days in our lives, there is still something missing...We are still restless...We cannot be truly happy without Him...God made us...We need Him...We must seek Him...The curiosity, this desire He gives puts in each of us, includes reading of the Word and about the Word, searching for Him...He has put this in us...God has put this desire to seek Him and find Him from man's very beginning...To be truly happy we must seek God...He is our Father...We are made in His image...He designed our hearts...It is in us to love our biological father...It is in our Holy Spirit to love our Maker Father...He is the One who created us, our biological father, and everything else in the world...
When we seek the heavenly things about Him, then all the earthly things will come to us...When we look seriously in our hearts, we really know that there is something missing in our loves, our longings, our desires...This missing thing is Him...It is God...If we do not seek Him and His kingdom, we will never be truly happy...Everyone of us was created be Him...There is something missing in us, is because we are made in His image and He has placed eternity in our hearts...