Why Playfulness and Purpose

Crack open your Bible to the first chapter of its first book, Genesis, and you'll read what's probably a familiar account of God creating the earth. There's a great little phrase that comes after almost every step of the creation - "And God saw that it was good." Was God just proud of himself? I don't think so. I could be way off base here, but I have a feeling that God was really thinking, "This is fun!" I mean fun is good, right? I'm sure God was having fun as he created the sun and stars and the moon, as he raised up mountains and laid down valleys, and as he divided the heavens from the earth. Think of all the fun he had making the animals - snakes of every kind, birds of every color and size, insects that fly, crawl, sting, pollinate and spin webs, and mammals that climb trees and swim in the ocean and dig holes underground. Then there are people, and you know he had fun with us! My point is this - God had a purpose in creation. He desired to create a place for humans to live so that he could have fellowship and relationship with them. He did this for us and he did it with a sense of playfulness. But we have become so serious in our everyday lives that we have not only lost sight of our sense of playfulness, we have very much lost our sense of purpose as well. Therefore, in these few lines in this medium so strange to me, I hope to somehow help us restore our God-given sense of playfulness and purpose. I hope to get us to lighten up some and look at things and say, "It is good!"