–A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy
The most important aspect of any person is what they think about God. This statement is changing my life. What are the first words to come to your mind when you think about who God is? Do you get a mental picture of Santa Claus in all white with lightning instead of presents? Also, why did God create people? Was it because He was lonely or wanted to be worshiped? I did not have a right view of who God was. At very best I had a conflicted view between a loving God and a wrathful one. My mind began to be renewed when I read this in Ephesians 1:3-6
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure." (NLT)
God wanted me and you to be redeemed to Him through Christ Jesus before He made the world. Jesus was not plan B from God! Also what does it mean to be redeemed through Christ Jesus? John 1:1 tells us Jesus has always been with God and is God. Jesus has been in relationship with the Father forever. When we are redeemed through Christ that means we get, not a relationship with God and the Trinity, but Christ's relationship with God and the Trinity. We are redeemed into the perfect everlasting community that is the Trinity through Christ and God designed it that way before we sinned.
This radically shifted my view of God. He is community, relationship, and love within Himself, but He doesn't stop there He created a way for us to share in that community. God created us to be in perfect relationship with Him. He wants to love us and out of that we worship Him, praise Him and live for Him.
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