God created all that is. He created a place for man to exist (Gen. 1: 1-24) and then said, “Let us make man… (Gen. 1:26). Notice that God made sure man had air to breathe, food to eat, water to drink, and ground on which to stand – then he created man. God knew His creation would need something to do, so man was placed in the “…garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it (Gen. 2:15).

God provided the things man needed, even companionship as man alone God said was not good. God started the first home with Adam and Eve; they were not alone for God was there.

Later when sin entered the world by Adam and Eve disobeying God, they still were not alone for God cared for them. Yes they were punished, cast from the beautiful garden, death entering the world, but God still cared for them. Man was not alone when he sinned in the garden and we are not alone when we sin today. God still cares for us.

John records, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

Man is God’s creation. When God created the world, He prepared a place for man to live (Gen. 1).

When man sinned, God could have allowed man to be destroyed, but His love for His creation led Him to send His Son to be the sacrifice for man’s sin. The sacrifice of animals that were to be done according to the Law of Moses, could not take away sin. The blood of God’s Son was the only sacrifice that could do this. The Hebrew writer put it this way, “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure … Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb.

10:1-10).

Some believe that Christ was not able to accomplish the mission set out for Him by His Father. This is far from the truth; He did exactly what He came to do. He gave Himself freely for the sins of mankind. God allowed His Son to be crucified, “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it (Acts 2:23, 24).

Mankind has never been “alone”. God was in the beginning and always will be. He left His word with the instructions on how to receive forgiveness.

Man is to have faith (Heb.

11:6), to repent of our sins (Luke 13:3), we are to confess Jesus as being the Son of God, Matt. 10:32; Acts 8:37), be baptized for the remission of our sins (Acts 2:38), and then live a life of faithfulness to God (Rev. 2:10b). Dear readers remember “we are not alone”.