Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 1111 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
God Wanted a Family - Worldview Wednesday


Wisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge. Welcome to Wisdom-Trek where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, and to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before.

Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy. Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1111 of our trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday. Creating a Biblical worldview is important to have a proper perspective on today’s current events.

To establish a Biblical worldview, you must also have a proper understanding of God and His Word. Last week we began a new series in which we are covering another detailed review of a book from one of today’s most prominent Hebrew Scholars Dr. Micheal S. Heiser. We are taking a deep dive and will share Dr. Heiser's insights into the question, which is also the title of his book “What Does God Want?”
God Wanted a Family


Last week we began to explore the question - What does God want? We discovered that the overall answer is simple. He wants you.

Before I became a believer, God was seeking me. I just didn't know it. He is also seeking you. I know now that God sought me because it's his nature to seek us. He's committed to us.

How do we know these things about God? (That’s a question I’m going to ask more than once, so look for it!) Let’s start with ourselves as an analogy. It's normal—part of our nature—to care about the things we make, especially if they required serious effort or were the result of concerted thought. We are naturally going to be angry or resentful when someone mocks, belittles, destroys, or claims as theirs something we made, achieved, or thought of first. Not feeling those things would be abnormal.

Romans 5:8

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

The God of the Bible shares this profile, or should I say, we share His profile. God does what he does to enjoy what He's done. God didn't create humanity because he lacked something. He wasn’t lonely, as though He was incomplete or needed company. God needs nothing because... well...He's God. He created things to enjoy the work of his own hands, so to speak. And the things he cares about most are those He made to be like him, “in his own image” as the Bible says (Gen 1:26). He is referring to you and me.

Our story—the story of why God wants us—begins with the biblical idea that God is our Maker. Although we can’t completely comprehend that, the bottom line is that we’re here because God wanted us here. God doesn't act randomly. He acts with purpose. When He created humankind, He wasn’t trying to fill some deficiency in himself. Given the fact that He didn't need us but still made us, there's only one rational explanation for why He created us. God wanted us to exist in order to enjoy us (and to have us enjoy him in return).

Because God created us, the Bible refers to him as our "Father" and people from Adam onward as his children. That's why the Bible uses the language of family to describe God and His relationship to us. That's no coincidence.



But I'm getting a little ahead of myself. To really understand the context for the family-centered language in the Bible, we need to go back to the time before God made the earth and the human race. It may surprise you, but God wasn't alone then, either. That’s another reason why we can be sure he didn't create us to heal his own loneliness.