I love reading about how God walked in the garden with Adam before the corruption took over. It makes you think there is a time were man and God came together as friends and had conversations together and actually met face to face. There was even a time of pure bliss and happiness that knowing all was well in the world.
Even after the corruption in creation consumed us God was finding ways to meet us and have times of fellowship in an one on one, face to face style get togethers. With the first tent being built to house the ark and a place for God to seat and chat to the high priest and to be worshiped, man has been trying to find ways to have that relationship with their creator.
In 2 Samuel 7 vrs 4-6 God comes to Nathan with a word saying he wants a place to dwell and to live in as he has not had a place to live in in such a long time. He has been moving from place to place looking to settle his roots.
5 "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
6 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.
God had enough of the tent and the constant moving about. It was time to find a permanent place to roost. So God makes a covenant with David that a place shall be built for him to rest. Though david will not get to build this place of dwelling for Yeshua the great man Solomon gets to have this great and mighty job.
See God craves like man to have fellowship with that which he created. He wants to be close. Like the way we want to be close to our kids or the ones we love.
If you skip to the story of new creation and Gods return to this little green and blue ball we call earth we see he comes back to his family and sets up an eternal resting place. We get to be close with him as Adam did.
Though us Christians crave it even more so as we were outcasts and we got adopted into Gods family. This adoption would not have happened until Jesus came into the picture and opened the door for us to join the family.
For me I crave it knowing that Adam and Eve were not our parents as so many creationists would have you believe. The story of creation and communion of God with the father and mother of the Jewish people is a interesting one. Also the fact that us the gentile people or the pagans were the outcasts of Eden and we were not worthy of being in Gods presence.
But Jesus changed that with his awesome work on the cross.
We all crave the idea of being close to original father.
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