A fundamental longing Most astonishing of all, however, is that the greatest longing in the heart of God is for the restoration of the cause of all the chaos, humanity itself. For this, he is not prepared to wait. The fact is, when Adam sinned, the Lord God lost a great joy which tragically had been so short-lived. With this creature he had made in his own image, he had been able to walk ‘in the garden in the cool of the day’ (Genesis 3:8) and share sublime fellowship. But man’s sin forced the Lord