God Planning Mysteries darken our knowledge here. But of

God Planning Mysteries darken our knowledge here. But of some things we can be sure One is that God does not deal with his world and his crea tures haphazard. He is a planning God. Another thing that seems clear is that man has freedom to : obey God or to disobey; to fit in with the Plan or to reject it and the Planner God could, no doubt, have made a race of beings who could not possibly do anything but right, a race of perfect robots; but "or some reason God chose to make man free. One suspects that the reason is that God would ra ther be loved by persons who would love him freely, than to be loved by erttatures "wound up.” j so to speak—bound to love him whether or no. 'Would that be real love?) Another thing that stands out is that God is resourceful; in - one sense his Plan can be broken, when men go contrary to his will. In another sense men do not break his Plan, for God appears in Gene sis like a wise general who has more than one plan of strategy— all pointing to victory. God Rejected Man is not free unless he is free to do wrong as well as to do right. And if he is free to do wrong, which is a short way of saying free to go against the will and plan of God, then he is free to destroy himself. For the Plan of God for man, born as it is infinite Wisdom and infinite Love, is always for man's best. For man to resist God, to ignore him. scorn him, live by man-made plans, is to choose the way of death. Genesis shows dra matically how the sin of man grows worse as a snowball grows larger—the farther it goes the more rapidly it grows. Adam's sin seemed a rather slight thing—then his son is a murderer, and his descendants so bad that God could scarcely find one good family among them. The story in Genesis is the story of mankind; men pre fer their own way to God's way— the way of hate and conflict rather than the way of fellowship and love; and they suffer the judgment of God; namely that those who take their own way must accept the inevitable disaster.