So God created mankind.... Gen. 1:27

So God created mankind.... Gen. 1:27

I created this picture using a program new to me. So this is the first very basic image, my first creation of a "man". In case you wonder, the head is towards the sky, the highest part is an arm. Or should be.
Of course, God is almighty, but did he think on how to do this? I wondered while trying so hard and yet failing again and again. Would God love to try and find new forms and give them new names? Enjoying his creation, knowing it is perfect for what it is at that point?
Is that a very disrespectful train of thought? It is not to me, I assure you.

On the other hand this picture reminds me of the fall. When man fell, he didn't even know what falling was and when he found out, it was unpleasant, it was too late. Many good things get lost that way. Falling is a very nasty feeling. At least if there is no parachute to stop the fall. How many things we do, whose consequences we cannot understand, maybe until it is way too late?

And - another shocking thought - after God had created man, even though he knew all that would be, was it hard on him when man turned his back and said: I don't want you, I don't need you? That temptation is so typically mankind. So God created mankind.... Gen. 1:27

 Do you think he ever regretted having done so? It cost him a high price. Do you ever regret something, whose consequences were a deep fall?

Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Light falling on a person or a thing reveals a lot of information. For we gather information through our eyes and to see we need light. Without light, to us, nothing is. There have been discussions in science, 100 years ago. If things are if they are not seen or known. Is the coffee-cup behind your back there, when you don't watch it? Where should it go you wonder? Well, if you don't give it a name and a sense, it may just be there but without purpose. If it is there at all. 

Is God there if we don't see him? We believe he is. Is he there, if nobody believes in him? We believe he is. That's called idealistic. Thinking things are whether I know it or not. Whether I see it or not. 

Turn the question around and it makes more sense to me. Is there naything if nobody perceives it? God does. There is nothing his light doesn't shine on. And his light changes perception as much as a color added to a spot changes the color of the object. 

If your shirt is blue in blue light, what color will it have in white light? Still blue? or white? God's presence changes the light we live in and many things we used to call blue may well be white.

Gen. 3:8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

The one person, blending in perfectly without any disturbance to our perception of things is often the one we favour and if that person makes us look good, we'll like him all the more. Until God calls us and in his light, in his presence things may take a shift to the unpleasant. Please, for the grace of God, have nothing to hide to him and be ready to enjoy the evening stroll in heavenly gardens.

The bird tries to blend into his surroundings. Many animals do by mimicking the world they live in. We do by trying to be like everybody else. To be invisible in society. The most invisible man will be most successful.