16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)
Being the least of the Brethren, in the Body of Christ, hardly places me in the position of being able to fully explain God's love for us, nor can God's love be fully fathomed by Humans, since it is spiritually discerned.
Our Human nature is only sinful, and spiritual discernment comes from the infilling of the Holy Spirit, which only happens by excepting Jesus into our hearts and living a life immersed in Him.
We as people identify with ideas by experience, and not by Godly wisdom.
My meaning is this...
Our idea of love comes from our experience and interaction with others, for example, if we had a loving father than we identify with a father being loving, but if our father was an absentee father, then our outlook on fatherly love will not be the same, and we will look to other means for love, giving us our perception of love. So with this, we can see that each of us understands love as something different, based on our experiences.
Now looking beyond our limited understanding, we can find a perfect love, one forged with blood from the beginning - A perfect relationship lost by one defiant move on the part of Man.
We as Believers have heard the “Garden of Eden,” and fall of Man by one bite of forbidden fruit recounted for years, but there is a much deeper story underlying, not thought of or talked much about, and this is the part concerning Adam and God's relationship.
God not only created us in likeness of His image, but He did this wanting a relationship with us. Jesus walked with Adam talking and laughing with Adam, as we do with our close friends and family. God wanted fellowship with us, it meant so much to Him, and when we fell to sin it broke His heart, cutting us off from Him. God walked through the Garden crying out to Adam “Where are you?”
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?" (Genesis 3:8)
And after our (Man's) fall, God's perfect love made a way for us by sacrificing His only son, Jesus, so that we would one day be able to commune and walk with Him side by side in Heaven again.
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. (John 3:16)
The Lord revealed His love for me one evening, while I was walking and talking with Him, and here is my recount:
From a small boy I always enjoyed the Bible's recount of Enoch, his relationship with God, and the fact that he walked to Heaven without the need to die first, and it moved me to ask Jesus if I could walk to Heaven one day.
Years later, at this particular time, I was at a low time in my life, only being certain of uncertainty, when suddenly I was given a vision of stairs leading to Heaven, having the appearance of polished Ivory, but more spectacular and shiny, with the greatest part being Jesus standing at the bottom of the stairs, looking at me with a compassion I cannot explain.
At the sight of Jesus, I was broken and lost for words, and then He spoke and said, “You always wanted to walk to Heaven, I am going to walk with you.”
It was not an offer, even though at that time in my life I would have taken it, but rather an important fact being conveyed to me. He was showing me that even out of millions of people on this Terrestrial Globe we call Earth, He loved me so much that He would walk with me to Heaven, not letting me walk alone, wanting to enjoy each step with me.
God loves you so much that He will be there when no one else will be, and that out of all the people on Earth, you are special and He cherishes each step taken with you.
God's purpose for creating us, was not to just give us dominion over the Earth, but was to have a loving relationship with us, to daily take each step with us, and then when all has been said and done, to spend Eternity fellowshipping and walking with us.
Blessings,
Christopher Moss
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