In the beginning, God. [Genesis 1:1]
Before the world was created, you. [Ephesians 1:4-6]
The world was created for you.
God intended for us to have a perfect relationship with Him, for you.
We have free will (No, we're not robots) and therefore have choice to love and know Him in return. A risk He wanted to take, for you.
He made you in His image. [Genesis 1:27] We all have God-given gifts that portray who He is. E.g. Relationship, Environmental responsibility, Marriage, Children, Education, Health, Home, Work, Creativity, Rest, etc. [1 Corinthians 12 + 14]
We chose to live for ourselves and rejected Him, but God still sent His only Son to die for us. [Romans 5:8]
God is love. He loves you. No matter what.
There is so much to God that I don't know. I've only really got a drop of the ocean of the fullness of God. But I've come to see that God is a good God. So often, I and a lot of people have a distorted view of God. We see Him as a God who just wants to punish and condemn us for the sin in our lives and therefore, He is a God of Law and rules. But if we see Him in this way, we've completely missed the idea of who He really is. God never wanted to see us go through pain, to suffer, to go through death. Before the world began, he chose you and me to be His children. To have a complete relationship full of goodness and love that you and I could not imagine. But we have the freedom to decide. To make our own choices. That is love. When you love someone, you risk being rejected.
We have a God who loves us. A love that cannot separate us from Him. You may not love Him back. But know that even though you don't, He sees you as precious.
I love God and I love people. But there will be countless times where I'll mess up and someone would point that out but that won't stop me from not loving Him or not reaching out to people. We make mistakes, but we learn from them. I'm sorry for the way I distorted your view of God in the past. I'm sorry for not portraying God's nature and character. I want to make a change. I will make a change.
What is the best way of communication? Love. God is love.
1 Corinthians 13
"1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love."
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