What is God to you? So much of our striving and struggle comes from an incorrect understanding of who we are in realtion to God and who God is in relation to us.

A few thoughts on the latter:

God is love…That is he is the centre and furthest extent of love, the creator and perfecter of love, the definition and fullness of Love and He is limitless God. But what does he love? its us!! The full force of the emotions of an infinite God are poured out on us. There is nothing else out there on which God places his love and so we do not get a proportion of that but the full force of it.

Now we know this in our heads but just think what it means. God was not satisfied to love us from the place of his greatness and omnipotence in a distant way but he devised a plan which risked everything but opened up a possibility of intimate relationship. When he offered his son as a ransom The Holy God made himself vunerable to the rejection of sinful man. In this he was putting off his rightful place of superiority and making himself, although still superior, father in the most tangible and relevant way to us. He scorned the position of devine dictator so that he could become our dearest daddy. he risked it all for love! Wow!

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