When did Hospitality Start?

 It is a valid question.  Is hospitality another recent fashion that will fade away?  Is it simply a cultural thing that will go away with the next culture change (with the advent of the internet and social media- culture changes a lot quicker than before).  Perhaps hospitality started in creation.  God did make everything we need to survive- gravity, water, habitable temperature, our stomachs and then food to fill them.  He made our eyes to take in the beauty He made all around us.  He made our ears to hear the birds and experience music. The words "And God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:25).  It was good because it all fit not only together, but fit His idea for goodness.  God designs all that is, and it is good- for His glory.   That God designed our needs to be met by the way things were made, and more than that- designed that life happens even when we do not see it (like in the deepest sees or darkest cavern) is in a sense hospitality.  He designed things to welcome us.  
    But more than that- we could say that there is hospitality designed in the very being of God.  Before creation of humans, Genesis 1:26 indicates that God said: "Let us make mankind in our image...in our likeness."  The plurality of the godhead in the "us" points to hospitality- the ability to get along- to be an "us" together.  There was no argument.  There was no debate.  There was only- "Let's do this..." and it was done.  We could say that unity and hospitality co-exist.  Everything is copacetic when it all agrees and there is one.  Hospitality looks for everything to be... as my grand-daughter says, "situated." Hospitality calls out to us to be content and to share that contentment with others,  When we are not hospitable but close minded, self-centered, and full of hate- then we are not hospitable, not god-like- and not living up to our design or directions.  Because scripture tells us hospitality begins with the plurality of God- or "God is love"- we are called to be loving and hospitable.    

Prayer: Lord you teach us what hospitality means by being so hospitable with us.