Created out of Love

God is the Creator of everything, beautifully described by the author in the creation account. Creation is God’s manifestation of his great and powerful creating hand. However, Sacred Scriptures did not focus only on creation, except in the Genesis account, which can be found in the first book of the Bible. Besides, Scripture focuses on the salvation of the human person, particularly the people of Israel. Continuously, the presence of the Creator in salvation history is visible and observable. Their experiences of this God as the creator led them to gain confidence in his saving power in history. This very close connection between creation and salvation can be found in many verses in the Bible.

As we look at it, we are drawn nearer to God through what Pope Francis calls the via pulchritudinis (the way of beauty). The beauty of creation leads us to the appreciation and gratitude of the Creator. Also, the human person created in the image and likeness of God is able to communicate with his Creator. We must be attentive to what God is telling us through his creation.

The knowledge that the human person gains and the command of the Lord to subdue the earth a t times becomes the source of abuses and destruction of his creation. The human person becomes blinded by his selfish interest. He is consumed by his greed which leads him to destroy creation. Our action must lead to contemplation of what God is thinking in his creation. We should appreciate the beauty of God’s creation in which Jesus Christ the New Adam is the new image of creation.

Definitely, human persons will continuously be blinded because of sin. Sin becomes the hindrance to connecting to what is godly and holy, which God instills in each human person. Yet God came to live with his creation by becoming flesh. If we eliminate God, we continue to destroy God’s creation. Jesus Christ shows us how loving God is. Jesus the crucified God is the visible certainty that creation is already an expression of love: we exist on the foundation of love. It is, therefore, a constitutive part of the Christian faith to accept this mystery as the center of reality, that is to say, to accept the mystery of God’s love, creation as love, and to make that love the foundation of one’s life. (Rev. Soren Abellanosa)