Man Is Very Important To God
Man is very important to God. On the sixth day of Creation, God created man in His own image. Man is God’s masterpiece of Creation.
God created everything in this universe for the well being of man. The psalmist who realized this profound truth wrote with awe and wonder: “What is man that thou art mindful of him?” (Psalm 8:4).
Man was created a little lower than the angels (Psalm 8:5), and made him to have dominion over the works of God’s hands, and put all things under his feet (Psalm 8:6).
Oh, what a great privilege for man to be so pampered by God! What is man indeed that God would be so mindful of him?
God was so delighted when He created man from the dust of the ground. He gave life to man by breathing His very own breath into man’s nostrils, and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7).
Oh, what a wonderful and inspiring fact! The very breath of the LORD God Almighty is in man’s nostrils! It is inherent in every man, and no diseases can ever thrive in him if he can fully realize and understand this awesome truth!
God spoke these things into existence: the light, the firmament, the dry land and the sea, the grass, herbs and trees, the sun, moon, and stars. He created the fish of the waters, the fowls of the air, and all living creatures of the Earth. God created all these things, and prepared all these before creating man. All provisions for comfortable existence were made ready for man before he was created by God. What a loving providential God!
God created the universe and all the things in it for man’s well being. You may not believe this, but astrobiologists discovered 154 finely-tuned parameters in the whole universe that show God’s tender love for man. This wonderful phenomenon called anthropic coincidence or principle is the coherent interrelationship and delicate fine-tuning of all things in this universe. These are parameters of a planet such as the Earth in relation to its moons, stars and galaxies whose values fall within narrowly defined ranges that make physical existence of man possible.
Let us talk about one of these amazing anthropic coincidences: the delicate complex composition of air. The air we breathe is precisely composed of 78.084% nitrogen, 20.9476% oxygen, 0.934% argon, 0.0314% carbon dioxide, 0.001818% neon, 0.0002% methane, 0.000524% helium, 0.000114% krypton, 0.00005% hydrogen, and 0.0000087% xenon. What a very delicate composition! Any alteration in only a few parts per million is fatal! What is the wisdom that keeps this extremely delicate composition intact all days throughout the ages?
The above delicate composition of the air that we breathe is just one of the many anthropic coincidences or principles in the universe that not only show God’s amazing love for man, but also prove that this Universe was created by a Master Designer, God. Another example of these anthropic coincidences is the distance of our planet from the sun. Had the distance of the Earth from the Sun been lesser than 93 million miles, all life on Earth would have been scorched to death, and if greater, the Earth would have been frozen and lifeless.
There are many more anthropic coincidences that show God’s love for man. The Earth’s magnetic field, oxygen and nitrogen quantities in the atmosphere, the delicate oxygen to nitrogen ratio, the levels in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide, water vapor, the ozone, plus a hundred more interrelated anthropic coincidences that link the planets, stars, galaxies and all forms of life in the whole universe are among the many anthropic coincidences or principles that clearly declare the importance of man to God.
Sometimes I wonder and ask these questions: What if our solar system is located at the outer edge of the spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy – where shall we be catapulted in the universe? Or if our solar system is located near the center of our galaxy, shall it escape the tremendous gravitational pull of a black hole as it plunges towards its “Schwarzschild radius”? How dreadful it is to be engulfed in this Whirlpool of No Return! All communications are totally cut off from the universe once inside the black hole’s “event horizon”, and final death occurs at its “singularity” point where all fundamental particles are stripped to vanish completely.
These are possible disasters so fearful that we do not dare to imagine them in our minds. Thanks be to God – He put everything in order, and designed the whole universe for the well being of man. Truly God loves man very much for he is His masterpiece of Creation, and he is indeed very important to Him.
What a loving Creator who made all things in this universe for the well being of man! What a humble God who condescends to the level of the lowly mortal such as man! What man will not love Him in return?