The Love of God: God’s Counterpart (Part2) God’s Greatest Desire: Why He Longs for You

(Continued from Part 1)

Now listen carefully. Can you follow me? The creatures that have a counterpart…can they love? Yes or no? Can God love? We have three forms. All of the ones below them have counterparts, and they’re pictures of God. We come to the three highest. Can an angel love? No. Does he have a counterpart? No. Can God love? Yes. Can man love? Yes. Does God have a counterpart? Does He? No. Is He alone? Yes, yet can He love? Yes. What about man? Can he love? Yes. Does he have a counterpart? No.

The Lord God said, “It’s not good for the man to be alone.” I will make him a “corresponding to him.” Does the next verse record the creation of one? Does it? No. Absolutely not. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field. They came out of the same dirt that man did. Do they have counterparts? Can they love? He brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Do you think He called man there and brought forth all the animals to name the creatures? Was that His purpose? Why did God bring every creature that lives in the universe and march it past Adam? He wanted man to feel what God had felt all eternity. He wanted man to stand there and say to man, “Here is everything living in the universe that is visible.” There are three creatures above them all: Me, Angels, and Adam.

You can love with your soul. I gave you the “type” of divine love. There pulsates within you, Adam, a comprehension of the powers of passion that is pent up in me. Adam stood there with his heart breaking. They came by – the tens, the hundreds, thousands of them. Adam stood there, the image of God, the intensity of God, the emotions of God, the steeling of God, the desire of God reflected in him, for he was the image of God. He stood there before every living creature that ever was, and he watched and watched, and the longing and the burning grew. He kept on, kept on watching, kept on naming them. This one he might call an ape; that one he might call a giraffe. But there was one word that burned on his lips; burned in his heart. It burned in his soul. It was in the very passion of his makeup. It was there, and it could not be denied.

There was one word he wanted to say, and he couldn’t say Isha. There wasn’t another man. But worse than that, he could see the lion come by and the lioness. He could see the tiger and the tigress. He could see the wolf and its mate, and he stood there feeling God’s aloneness.

There is a verse of scripture that speaks with more pathos than any other in all of divine writ. And when Jesus spoke it, he spoke it out of the very boughs of His being. You’ve heard me say this before, but listen now in this context. Except a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it must abide alone. And God had been alone. Here stands the picture of God living out the same drama, the same feeling, the same emotion, the same intensity. And he knows he’s all alone. In a way, there is a failure of God here. He’s alone.

Brothers and sisters, what do you have? You’ve got the three highest creatures in the universe, and they don’t look like any of the others. All the others can reproduce. Virtually all the others have a counterpart. Brother, sister, there are three; there are three, and none of them has a counterpart. But there is yet a strange thing here. One of them is visible, and two are invisible. And what is the nature of that which is visible? To have a counterpart. The nature of the invisible is to have no counterpart. Something is out of shape in God’s uniform creation. The unseen is as it is. The seen has a counterpart. But there’s one other thing that has no counterpart.

Now, I want you to understand that there is a likeness to God in that creature Ish who stands there so much like the God who made him. The only one who can look up into the face of God, and God can utter the word love, and man can understand what He means, and both feel the same: how alone he is. I don’t know if he had a conversation with Adam or not. It doesn’t really matter. But if He did, it went like this. “Adam, did you find anything like you?” And Adam had stood there and watched every creature walk by, probably beginning with the smallest and working to the largest, going from the littlest up to the highest life form coming past him. By the time he got to the end, his expectation must have been just about ready to break, if not go wild, hoping that toward the end of that great sea of creation, living creation, toward the end, he might see one who was his own counterpart like all the rest.

Perhaps, if there had been a conversation, it would have gone like this. “Adam, is there something wrong?” And with a deep loneliness, a word, “Where is my me? Where is my mine? Where is that like me, that is like the lioness to the lion? There is something in me that is not getting expressed. There is love in me, and it has no place to go. God said, “Adam, you’re too much like me for this to be an easy thing. You’re made in my image. The only difference is you’re visible, and I am invisible, but you’re like Me and I am alone.”

And with something in his soul that was about to break, perhaps Adam asked the question, “Is there nothing that can be done?” And God says, “I cannot create for you a helpmate, a correspondent, because I am this way and you are like Me. I am one. You are one. I cannot create Me because I am uncreatable. “Lord, is there no one?” God answered, “I can take you, and I can take you out of you, and I can build you out of you, and you will be separate from you, yet that ‘you’ will have your life. Though you will be two, there will be just you. I will have to take that life out of you.”

I don’t know how to explain this. Let me see if I can. There is God, and He is one, and all He can do with Himself is separate Himself here, and yet it is God, and yet in that separation, He can create. No, in that separation, there is cause to be a gender. Yet it is the same in nature. But there can only be one God. Therefore, it must come back. And yet in that cutting off, in that cutting away, and in that ‘causing to be a gender’, there is now a place for love to flow…and to return.