Still Don't Get It

  God does things that defy the understanding of man. If I were God, I would have saved myself the trouble of making people. All mankind has done is caused Him pain. On the sixth day of creation, I would have created the animals and stopped there. Their instinctive drives them from the deliberate messes humans make by exercising free-will. Animals do not contemplate life, they do not go on adventures. They sleep, eat, reproduce, and die.
  Humans are similar to animals: they are biologically classified as mammals. They are not animals though. In humanity, God married temporary, physical bodies to eternal souls. While humans have biological drives, they also possess so much more. Their thoughts go beyond the how and travel the sphere of why. Young animals learn how to survive, young humans' lives are marked by the everlasting "why".
   There is a great capacity for humans to get into trouble. Establish a rule and man is bound to break it, or at least bend it to the last extremity. That is why the world has fallen into disrepair over the ages. Adam and Eve broke the one rule God gave them in the garden of Eden and brought death on themselves and all mankind. What is more is that in the rule-breaking, in their sin, Adam and Eve voided their ability to have a personal relationship with the God who created them. God is a perfect God and by virtue of His holiness, He cannot excuse the short-comings of mankind.
  This is where God blows my mind, this is my why. When God made man, He knew we would disobey Him. And He knew the only way we could have a relationship with Him would be if He first sacrificed for us. God did not just make mankind and then leave us, He loved us. He sent His only son to die  and take on the punishment we deserve so we might have a personal relationship with Him, so He might call us His children. The sacrifice He made was more painful then anything in all of the eternal experience. The holy God took the weight of the world's sin upon Him so He might erase it, might make the world clean and new. Might make those He called to Himself holy so He could have a personal relationship with them.
  Why does He take the pain we give Him? Why did God create such a troublesome rabble? I know in my head that the ultimate purpose of creation is to glorify God; but when I live in it, I have trouble seeing how creation will glorify God. While I am living on earth, there are some things I never will understand. And God's great love for the mess of mankind it the greatest thing I will not understand here, if I ever do.