God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, and entrusting to us the message of salvation.
We live in a fallen world. With the sin of our first parents, our human nature fell, and all creation went with it. God could have left it at that. He didn't have to do anything about it. Adam and Eve had already shown that they would not obey Him but rather wanted to be “gods” in their own right, choosing for themselves what is “good” and what is “evil.”
But God loves us. He loved (and still loves) Adam and Eve, and He loves all of their sinful, broken, fallen descendants. So He refuses to leave us in our sinfulness and brokenness and fallenness. Instead, He sent His only Son to save us, to reconcile the world to Himself through Jesus' life and death, His passion and resurrection.
God didn't have to do it. He wanted to do it. He doesn't have to save us or forgive us. He wants to save us and forgive us.
But God won't do that without us. We have free will, and God wants us to cooperate with Him, to choose His mercy and love. And He wants us to spread the message of that mercy and love to others. He entrusts to us the message of salvation.
This is a major responsibility. We are all called to proclaim the Gospel in our words and our lives. We are called to cooperate in reconciling the world to God, uniting ourselves to Jesus Christ so that fallen humans and the fallen world can be raised up again.
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