In addressing this inquiry of how God and people relate we have to initially take a gander at how God sees people and how he interfaces with them in various pieces of the Old Testament. What we’ve seen all through the entire Old Testament and in our consistently lives is whether we choose to settle on a decent choice or we choose to settle on a terrible choice. In this specific case, we either adhere to God’s Law and do what he requests that we do or we act like weaklings and defy him which prompts evil and going down an inappropriate way. At the point when God originally made man each relationship was intended to be without blemish, anyway when sin entered the world the great connection among God and man got ugly.
It is just fitting to begin discussing how the connections among God and human were before the fall in Genesis 3. This originates from the Pentateuch of the Bible. It began in Genesis section 2 which expressed, “At that point the Lord God framed a man from the residue of the ground and inhaled into his noses the breath of life, and the man turned into a living being” (Genesis 2:7). At the point when Adam was made in the picture of God, he had no blemishes and he had an excellent association with God. Presently Eve was made in light of the fact that God didn’t need Adam alone so he caused Adam to go into a profound rest. At the point when Adam was resting Eve was made with one of Adam’s ribs and all was great when he woke up.
See toward the start of Genesis section 3, Eve is having a discussion with the Serpent, and it expresses, “The lady said to the snake, “We may eat natural product from the trees in the nursery, yet God said, ‘You should not eat organic product from the tree that is in the nursery, and you should not contact it, or you will die.”You won’t unquestionably bite the dust,” the snake said to the lady. “For God realizes that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will resemble God, knowing great and abhorrence” (Genesis 3:2-5). The demonstration of enticement begins to occur and that this implies is to be convinced to settle on an awful choice. “The snake” or fallen angel is enticing Eve to eat from the taboo tree in the Garden of Eden and Eve ends up tumbling to enticement and doing it. The once immaculate relationship that God and Adam and Even now had defects and starting here on it just deteriorated.
Another extraordinary association between how God and people identify with one another is in the book of Genesis, however this time discussing Noah. As indicated by Genesis part 6, “Presently the earth was degenerate in God’s sight and was loaded with viciousness. God perceived how degenerate the earth had become, for every one of the individuals on earth had ruined their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put a conclusion to all individuals, for the earth is loaded up with savagery as a result of them. I am most likely going to devastate both them and the earth (Genesis 6:11-13). God saw all the evilness on the planet that was going on after the fall and he needed to clean the earth off of everybody living on it.
What was fascinating about God’s activities here is that he revealed to Noah that he was to manufacture an ark and him and his family would endure the flood that was going to happen upon the world. Toward the finish of Genesis part 6, God discloses what Noah needs to do so as to be spared from the flood, “Yet I will build up my agreement with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your children and your significant other and your children’s spouses with you. You are to bring into the ark two of every single living animal, male and female, to keep them bursting at the seams with you. Two of each sort of fowl, of each sort of creature and of each sort of animal that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take each sort of nourishment that will be destroyed and store it as nourishment for you and for them. Noah did everything similarly as God told him (Genesis 6:18-22). The association here is that Noah pursued the entirety of God’s directions and did precisely what he should do which God remunerated him by saving his life and making him the guide to restart humankind when he cleaned everybody away.
Proceeding onward from the Pentateuch, from the Historical book segment of the Old Testament, I am going to concentrate on the book of Judges. There are numerous references that show the connection among God and people anyway I am going to concentrate on one of them. This model originates from Judges section 13 and all through the initial 13 parts of Judges, the Israelites continued accomplishing things that were abhorrent according to the Lord and continued resisting God’s directions. As indicated by Judges 13, it states, “Again the Israelites did insidious according to the Lord, so the Lord conveyed them under the control of the Philistines for a long time” (Judges 13:1). This connection among God and people was not solid in light of the Israelites defying God; consequently God rebuffed his kin for this. Keeping a decent association with God and obeying what he says, makes a more grounded association with God, yet in addition makes a trusting and practically ideal association with him.
1 Samuel 15 shows another way how God identifies with people by expressing, “Samuel stated, “Despite the fact that you were once little in your very own eyes, did you not become the leader of the clans of Israel? The Lord blessed you ruler over Israel. What’s more, he sent you on a strategic, ‘Go and totally pulverize those underhanded individuals, the Amalekites; take up arms against them until you have cleared them out.’ Why did you not comply with the Lord? For what reason did you jump on the loot and do malicious according to the Lord?” “However I obeyed the Lord,” Saul said. “I went on the crucial Lord relegated me. I totally crushed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their ruler (1 Samuel 15:17-20). A touch of setting behind these stanzas is that God had said that Saul would have been lord over Israel after Samuel. God had explicit directions of what he had advised Saul to do with the goal that he would be lord after Samuel. Saul and God didn’t have a decent relationship and this made God lament making Saul ruler. As should be obvious each relationship since The Fall, this far has been defective somehow or another due to the ignoring of God’s Law.
Getting into the Poetic segment of the Old Testament, the book of Proverbs as I would see it shows the best case of how God and people relate. Maxims section 9 features the positive and negative impacts of an association with God. As indicated by Proverbs 9, “The dread of the Lord is the start of intelligence, and information on the Holy One is understanding. For through intelligence your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. On the off chance that you are astute, your knowledge will compensate you; in the event that you are an impostor, only you will endure (Proverbs 9:10-12). In this adage God is indicating that you will have knowledge and comprehension of the Holy One with a positive association with God. We should be insightful with our activities we do in reality on the grounds that our intelligence will remunerate us. God rewards us when we accomplish positive things to profit others than ourselves. Interestingly, on the off chance that you accomplish things that are narrow minded and not for God, you can apologize and have those transgressions you have submitted cleaned from you. What the section in the event that “you are a faker, only you will endure” signifies is that on the off chance that you don’t apologize and request absolution of your transgressions you won’t have a decent association with God and won’t have an ideal association with him in paradise.
The last piece of the Old Testament I will examine how God and people relate originates from the Prophets. The book I am going to utilize is the Book of Jonah. In Jonah Chapter 1, God has explicit requests for him. He states, “Go to the incredible city of Nineveh and lecture against it, since its insidiousness has come up before me” (Jonah 1:2). Presently Jonah got into a vessel and went the other way and defied what God had requested to do. Further down in the section something occurs on his pontoon ride. “At that point the Lord sent an incredible breeze on the ocean, and such a fierce tempest emerged, that the ship took steps to separate. Every one of the mariners were apprehensive and each shouted out to his own god. What’s more, they tossed the freight into the ocean to help the ship.” Then the mariners said to one another, “Come, let us throw dice to discover who is liable for this cataclysm.” They make bets and the part fell on Jonah. So they asked him, “Let us know, who is answerable for raising this hell for us? What sort of work do you do? Where do you originate from? What is your nation? From what individuals are you?” He replied, “I am a Hebrew and I venerate the Lord, the God of paradise, who made the ocean and the dry land (Jonah 1:4-5;7-9).
Jonah’s association with God got ugly on the grounds that he didn’t tune in to God’s requests and appalling things happened to him and the individuals around him. Jonah really advises the individuals on the ship to toss him over the edge since that is the thing that God needs. After Jonah is tossed over the edge he is gulped by a whale and from that minute on, Jonah carried on with his life for the Lord in a faithful manner, yet did so hesitantly. He lectured Nineveh the expression of God and the Ninevites had confidence in God and what Jonah was lecturing them. Jonah needed the Ninevites completely decimated, however God needed to spare them from the start since he thought God was in effect excessively decent to the Ninevites. In the book of Jonah, Jonah is certifiably not an awesome case of how we have the best association with God. As indicated by Jonah part 4, “He petitioned the Lord, “Isn’t this what I stated, Lord, when I was still at home? That is the thing that I attempted to thwart by escaping to Tarshish. I realized that you are a thoughtful and sympathetic God, slow to outrage and possessing large amounts of affection, a God who yields from sending catastrophe. Presently, Lord, remove my life, for it is preferable for me to pass on over to live” (Jonah 4:2-4). Despite the fact that Jonah was a major unpleasant brat with all that he did, he was as yet faithful to God. We can apply this to our lives when we are pitching our fits, we are still to stay loyal to God’s calling and wo
