God selected to make you, and He went to extraordinary lengths to protect you from your sins. He asked you to be conformed to the likeness of His Boy and promised to engineer all circumstances to your good. ( Romans 8:28 ) Why would He do so much? The answer’s straightforward. God wishes to have a private relationship with each single one of us. The crisis is that many folks live their entire life never realizing that God truly loves them. In the 13th thru 16th chapters of John, we see many of the Lord’s most personal moments with His disciples.
Christians infrequently think of Jesus only as the Great Intercessor sitting at the right hand of God. But He also wants to be our nearest chum, who inspires and guides us.
God made us for intimacy. He doesn’t need us ; He wants us. Regardless of how many of us in the world love us, we are going to feel unfinished if we don’t recognize God’s love. The single thing that stands between us and God is our sin, from which we are helpless to save ourselves. So our Father made a provision – He sent His Son Jesus, who was completely divine, to take on human form and die on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. God failed to accept us despite our sin or by ignoring our misdemeanour ; instead, He removed our sin as far as the east is from the west. ( Psalm 103:12 ) Then He went even further and invited us to be His mate. As the hymn writer exclaimed, “Amazing love! How is it able to be!”.