GOD does not need us.

He has everything. He lacks nothing. In His three Divine Persons, He even has love. He is a furnace of eternal love.

Think of the world He created out of nothingness with its physical, intellectual and moral splendors. Then why? Why does He love creatures who are so far beneath Him, who can do nothing by comparison?

Theologians have pondered this question for thousands of years. In his book, The Creator And The Creature; Or The Wonders Of Divine Love, Fr. Frederick William Faber devotes an entire chapter to it. We cannot understand God’s ways completely, but the simplest answer is,

God loves us because He created us. 

We are different from all His other creatures. We have the freedom not to love Him, the very Source of our being and all that is good. Our love when it comes is freely given.

In the meantime, God showers us with visible proof of His tenderness and devotion, a love that is both universal and personal. He loves each creature as if it were the only one. He knows and loves each of us more than we know and love ourselves. “Reason and revelation, science and theology, nature, grace, and glory, alike establish the infallible truth that God loves His own creatures, and loves them as only God can love.” More from Fr. Faber:

The whole creation floats, as it were, in the ocean of God’s almighty love. His love is the cause of all things and of all the conditions of all things, and it is their end and rest as well. Had it not been for His love, they never would have existed, and were it not for His love now they would not be one hour preserved. Love is the reading of all the riddles of nature, grace, and glory; and reprobation is practically the positive refusal on the part of the free creature to partake of the Creator’s love. Love is the light of all dark mysteries, the sublime consummation of all hopes, desires, and wisdoms, and the marvellous interpretation of God. Light is not so universal as love, for love is in darkness as well as light. Life is less strong than love; for love is the victory over death, and is itself an immortal life. If it pleased God at this moment to destroy the air, the planet would have wheeled but a few leagues eastward before it would have become the home of universal death and desolation. Myriad myriads of warm and joyous lives would have been extinguished in one inarticulate gasp of choking agony. Not only would the streets and fields have been strewed with the suffocated dead, but the birds on the wing would have fallen lifeless to the ground; the deep blue waters of the sea would not have screened their multitudinous tribes from the energy of the destroying edict. The subterranean creatures would have been found out and stifled in the crevices of the rocks, the black waters, or the winding ways beneath the ground. Earth’s green vesture would be unrolled, and the fair orb would revolve in space an ugly mass of dull, discoloured matter. Yet this picture of ruin is but a faint image of what would happen if God withdrew into His own self-sufficient glory, and called off that immensity of gratuitous love with which He covers all creation. For the destruction of the air would be but a material desolation. It would not invade the vast kingdoms of moral beauty, of spiritual life, of natural goodness, of infused holiness, of angelical intelligence, or of the beatitude of human souls. As far as creation is concerned, God, as it were, concentrates all His attributes into one, becomes only one perfection, and that one perfection is to us the whole of God: and it is love. God is love, says St. John briefly; and after that, nothing more was needed to be said. He has infinite power, boundless wisdom, indescribable holiness, but to us the power, the wisdom, and the holiness come simply in the shape of love. To us creatures His infinity, His immensity, His immutability, His eternity, are simply love, infinite, immense, immutable, eternal love.

Please read this magnificent book to learn more about this subject. It may change your life.

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