"Then God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image.' God in Trinitarian conversation, plans His crowning creation. Man rebelled and though made in the wonderful and creative image of the all-powerful God and can accomplish amazing works with his hands and mind, he, also, with the sin nature unchecked, can commit atrocities unnameable. Without God, man is the center of his own universe. But without God, that universe will come to a terrifying and unfulfilled end.
What brings me to this line of thinking is my morning reading about the tower of Babel. Nimrod, in his pride, wanted to make a name for himself. The tower was to be a monument of man in all his glory. They had been commissioned by God to fill and populate the earth. Instead, they took residence and combined their strength to display their own glory. "Come, let us make bricks...Come, let us build for ourselves a city...let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." This scattering abroad was God's command for them, yet as with Adam, God's command was again ignored. God removed Adam from his comfort zone and again He proceeds to remove the great city of Babel from it's lofty place. "Come let Us go down... So the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the earth." (Genesis 11:3, 5-9)
The "Come let Us" of God once again overrides the "come let us" of man. And it always will. Man's power is no power in the face of God and as His crowning creation, we need to be facedown saying, "Come, let us adore Him."
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