It might be expected to be found at the beginning of the Bible, but it isn’t. It’s found at the ending. In Revelation, chapter 4, in a single verse often overlooked, we find the most succinct expression of why God created anything and everything. This alone, in the final analysis, provides us with the only true rationale behind the creative acts of God. It is here we learn why God created men and angels and imputed to them the dynamic of personal volition. Why God would create beings that possessed both the will to do great good as well as great harm is told us in these verses.
The scene takes place in connection with the culmination of human activity on the earth. It is as much as an end-time scenario as one could imagine. Here it is: “The four and twenty elders fall before Him that sat on the throne, who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, ‘Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, honor, and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.'” There we have it in a nutshell. This is why there is everything that was, and is, and is to be. It is simply because God was pleased to create them, and He was pleased to create them as He did, knowing the personal volition He would grant to each would result in their becoming something other than what He originally created and pronounced “very good”. He knew this “very good” creation, with built-in volition would result in corruption that would require redemption if He were to salvage it. And, predictably, Revelation 5 records the expression of thanksgiving and praise by the same twenty-four elders, now joined by four unidentified living creatures. This appears to be the only rationale that God entertained to justify all that He created and made. It pleased Him to do so.
But does He really need any other rationale? He who alone possessed the power and ability to bring all things, living and non-living, into existence? Did He have the right to do so? When something that has no existence is brought into being by a Power that called it from non-existence into existence, does He somehow need the permission of that object to bring it into being? Such is nonsensical. Does not the potter have power over the lump of clay that he may fashion it into whatever object he desires? Or, is he somehow obligated to inquire of the clay what it would like to be? Or whether or not it wants to be at all? This, too, is nonsensical. The Creator God has chosen to bring into being all that has ever existed, does exist, or will exist, and His absolute sovereignty need not obtain permission or approval from any He has created. He created because He was pleased to do so. He needs no other reason.
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