Key Verse:
"Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."
(Luke 23:34)
Central Truth:
God's intense & unconditional love for us is unfathomable! As our Creator, He desires our fellowship more than anything else. He has been pleading for "it" for 5,000 years!
"WE JUST DON'T GET IT!"
Don't beat yourself up too much. Adam and Eve, who were only left alone in the Garden for 30 minutes(?), "botched it" and very few people have gotten it right since! What I mean is, very few people have truly captured our Father's love, forgiveness, and the fulfilled life of fellowship with Him as He intended. Just spend some time reading the Old and New Testaments about all of the "godly" men and women who endured hardship and defeats because they "didn't get it!"
K.I.S.S. :
1.) God created everything in Heaven and on Earth, including man & woman for His purpose, pleasure, glory and fellowship! Yes, we were created for His FELLOWSHIP! Period. "Do we get, that?"
2.) We were created in His/Their likeness, including a "will" to make decisions; good/bad, right/wrong, healthy/unhealthy, for God/against God, etc. There's the hitch!
3.) God loves us, you & me . . . every human ever born, Again, He created us & His love for us is incomprehensible and unconditional. Didn't they know/believe "that"? Don't we know/believe "that" . . . ? We have 5,000 years of history and testimonies to prove it! We're STILL trying to "get it"!
4.) In spite of God's unwavering desire to have close and loving fellowship with His creation (man & woman), they/we exercise their/our "will" by choosing other objects for their/our affection and adoration. I think I read somewhere that sin is NOT the "use" of that which is bad, but the "MISUSE" of that which is good. Remember, God created everything for His purpose, pleasure, glory, etc . . . . Just a thought, but what if our motive each day was to "use" the blessings and challenges God provides to promote closer fellowship with Him . . . ??? How do I "get that"?
5.) Because of His nature and His unwavering, unconditional love, God provides 3,000 years of endless methods of sacrifices for rebellious man to regain intimate fellowship with God their Father. So, what's next? What else could God possibly do to capture the hardened and wayward heart of His lost children?
6.) Our loving Father, "Abba God," offers the ultimate and most outrageous sacrifice for a stubborn and sinful mankind that never did "get it"! Can you imagine the conversation? God: "Jesus, my Son, you and I have been witnessing and laboring over man and woman for 3,000 years. I am not satisfied with My relationship with them. Their hearts are cold and hardened toward Me. There is only one way I can think of that will change the heart of my most precious Creation and give me what I want most of all - a close and intimate love relationship with every man and woman, which of course I have created!" I can't imagine how the Father felt when He saw the look on His Son's face knowing fully what He was asking of Him! Jesus "got it," oh so clearly!
7.) "A Father after His own 'kids' heart"! Bottom line, God has been so intentional about His relationship with us that He asked and let His only Son come to earth, live a perfect life for 33 years - performing miracles, showing compassion, love and forgiveness to a perpetual generation of sinners, transgressors, and haters of God - and then finally endure the most humiliating and torturous death conceivable. Oh, and how does He respond while He's breathing His last breath? "Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing."
8.) Please tell me that "we get it, now!" How can we not respond to God, our Father, our Creator that, for 5,000 years has been pursuing a "love" relationship with us? Talk about, "passion with a purpose" . . . . There it is!
9.)"WE GOT IT," now "GIVE IT!"
"Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing."
(Luke 23:34)
Central Truth:
God's intense & unconditional love for us is unfathomable! As our Creator, He desires our fellowship more than anything else. He has been pleading for "it" for 5,000 years!
"WE JUST DON'T GET IT!"
Don't beat yourself up too much. Adam and Eve, who were only left alone in the Garden for 30 minutes(?), "botched it" and very few people have gotten it right since! What I mean is, very few people have truly captured our Father's love, forgiveness, and the fulfilled life of fellowship with Him as He intended. Just spend some time reading the Old and New Testaments about all of the "godly" men and women who endured hardship and defeats because they "didn't get it!"
K.I.S.S. :
1.) God created everything in Heaven and on Earth, including man & woman for His purpose, pleasure, glory and fellowship! Yes, we were created for His FELLOWSHIP! Period. "Do we get, that?"
2.) We were created in His/Their likeness, including a "will" to make decisions; good/bad, right/wrong, healthy/unhealthy, for God/against God, etc. There's the hitch!
3.) God loves us, you & me . . . every human ever born, Again, He created us & His love for us is incomprehensible and unconditional. Didn't they know/believe "that"? Don't we know/believe "that" . . . ? We have 5,000 years of history and testimonies to prove it! We're STILL trying to "get it"!
4.) In spite of God's unwavering desire to have close and loving fellowship with His creation (man & woman), they/we exercise their/our "will" by choosing other objects for their/our affection and adoration. I think I read somewhere that sin is NOT the "use" of that which is bad, but the "MISUSE" of that which is good. Remember, God created everything for His purpose, pleasure, glory, etc . . . . Just a thought, but what if our motive each day was to "use" the blessings and challenges God provides to promote closer fellowship with Him . . . ??? How do I "get that"?
5.) Because of His nature and His unwavering, unconditional love, God provides 3,000 years of endless methods of sacrifices for rebellious man to regain intimate fellowship with God their Father. So, what's next? What else could God possibly do to capture the hardened and wayward heart of His lost children?
6.) Our loving Father, "Abba God," offers the ultimate and most outrageous sacrifice for a stubborn and sinful mankind that never did "get it"! Can you imagine the conversation? God: "Jesus, my Son, you and I have been witnessing and laboring over man and woman for 3,000 years. I am not satisfied with My relationship with them. Their hearts are cold and hardened toward Me. There is only one way I can think of that will change the heart of my most precious Creation and give me what I want most of all - a close and intimate love relationship with every man and woman, which of course I have created!" I can't imagine how the Father felt when He saw the look on His Son's face knowing fully what He was asking of Him! Jesus "got it," oh so clearly!
7.) "A Father after His own 'kids' heart"! Bottom line, God has been so intentional about His relationship with us that He asked and let His only Son come to earth, live a perfect life for 33 years - performing miracles, showing compassion, love and forgiveness to a perpetual generation of sinners, transgressors, and haters of God - and then finally endure the most humiliating and torturous death conceivable. Oh, and how does He respond while He's breathing His last breath? "Father, forgive them for they know not what they are doing."
8.) Please tell me that "we get it, now!" How can we not respond to God, our Father, our Creator that, for 5,000 years has been pursuing a "love" relationship with us? Talk about, "passion with a purpose" . . . . There it is!
9.)"WE GOT IT," now "GIVE IT!"
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