When you think of God, are there any characteristics of your earthly father that is present in the Heavenly Father? We are God's children and his love and desires for us is stronger than the love and desires a humanly father has for his children. Francis Chan said that his "desires for [his] children is only a faint echo of God's great love for me and for every person he made." Matthew 7:11 says, "If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!" This verse reminds me that my Father in heaven is abounding in love with each one of us and that nothing else compares.
God loves us so much that we are wanted by him too. Before we were even formed in our mother's womb, God already knew us and loved us. It says in Ephesians 2:10 that we were created "to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Our existence "was not random, nor was it an accident. God knew who He was creating, and He designed us for specific works."
This holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves me! Jesus did not have to love us. He is complete and perfect and really does not need you and me, "yet he wants us, chooses us, and even considers us His glorious inheritance."
"The greatest good on earth is God. Period." His love for us is never ending. Now God loves us with everything he has but we have to question ourselves and ask: are we in love with God or just His stuff? God looks at us for who we are not by our status, money, clothes, beauty, etc. but can we say the same thing to God? Do you really believe that "God loves you, individually, and personally and intimately?" And do you see and know Him as Abba, Father? Have you reached the point where you loved God with all of your heart, mind, and soul? Is the crazy love for God there?
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