Tag: Jesus

~ God Really Does Love You ~

One of the most well known Bible verses is (John 3:16) 'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son'.

I've heard this said so many times that I have 'Very Wrongly' taken for granted the Huge Scale & Importance of God 'Giving' His Son to show us that He Loves us.

But while I was spending Quiet Time with God over Christmas time, I started thinking about just how much God Really Does Love us.

I looked for Bible verses that clearly say that God Loves us, and when I read (1 John 4:9) 'God showed how much he loves us by sending his one and only Son into the world', I suddenly realised what a Massive Task it was for God to actually 'Send' His Son.

It wasn't just a simple case of sending a box of chocolates through the post to tell someone you Love them, or sending a text with a love heart saying I Love You. This was the Biggest thing in the history of humankind.

Even though God's own Heart & Soul must have experienced Unimaginable Hurt & Pain when the Entire world had previously become evil in every way, and had turned their back on God, He still wanted to show us that He Loves us. WOW, that's Real Love.

When God decided to 'Send' His Son to show us that He Loves us, it required so much planning & organising that was so complex, that even the most advanced computer in the world would not be able to work it out.

Think about what God needed to Do just to actually 'Send' His Son,

~ First of all He needed to work out how to turn the Spirit form of Jesus into a Physical Human form, that is Entirely Human whilst still being Entirely the Son of God.
That in itself would have blown the circuit boards of Any computer trying to work it out.

~ Then He needed to find a Lady who Trusted God with Complete Faith & Belief , that she would be Willing to give birth to God's Son even though she didn't Understand How it could happen. 
She also needed to be Pure with No evil in her whatsoever, so that there would not be any conflict between Good and evil while Jesus was in her womb.

~ God then had the Huge task of finding Many people from different Places, different Backgrounds and different Ages, who would All put their Complete Trust in God, and be Willing to Change their 'Own Plans' so that they could Fulfil 'God's Plan'.

~ God Needed to find a man who was so Humble & Faithful to God, that he would Accept that he would not be the actual Father of Jesus, because he knew He had a Greater Father in Heaven.

~ God needed to find Shepherds who would Believe there was a far Better Shepherd than themselves.

~And God needed to find some of the Wisest Men in the world who would Humble themselves to Seek the One who is Wiser. 

These were just a few of the things that God needed to organise just for Jesus to actually be Born.

It's believed that the Nativity fulfilled over 350 Old Testament Prophesies. WOW, think about that. Things that had been Spoken about and Prophesied about Hundreds and maybe Thousands of years earlier, all took place when God 'Sent' His Son.

An examples is,
~ (Micah 5:2) “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me One who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”

 All of this was just the Beginning. 
30 years later God needed to find more people who were Willing to put their Trust & Belief in Jesus, so that God's Plan would be Achieved.

~ He needed to find 12 men who would leave Everything to Follow Jesus.
~ He needed to find men & women who would Turn from their sinful ways and Follow Jesus' Way.
~ And Many More things that God needed to Do for His Plan to be Fulfilled, to be able to show His Love for us.

Then after Everything that God had done to 'Send' His Son, He then Humbled Himself by sacrificing His Only Son on the Cross, so that He would take the place of 'Our Sins' so that He could Restore the broken Relationship between people and God.
That is Real Love.

Go did All that (and More) simply because He would like to Enjoy a Loving Relationship with You.

So if you ever feel that God doesn't Love You, think about the Amazing Huge scale of things that God did simply to 'Send' His Son.

The Birth of Jesus was the Beginning of all the 
Wonderful Ways that God Shows His Love for us. 
And He's got Many More Wonderful Ways
to keep showing us His Love,
because God's Love 'Keeps On Growing'.

God Really Does Love You.