Okay so think about your favorite living thing in the World that just means SO much to you, whither it be your spouse, your kids, your dog, favorite tree... You get the point.
Anyway, what if you weren't here and no one, absolutely no one, cared about that special thing? That is a pretty depressing thought, am I right?
That is almost how our relationship with God.
Sure we have our friends and family who love us, but if God wasn't here there would be no unconditional love.
Yes, you may be saying, 'Well I love ______ unconditionally' and that maybe true but that love is nothing compared to God's Ultimate Unconditional Love.
Now think about this, would you give that living thing as a sacrifice for someone who hated you? For someone who constantly hurt, used, cheated, and abused your love and you?
That's what I thought, no. I wouldn't either.
But God did just that!
He gave His Son, the One who was perfect and sinless, to die for a world that is dirty, and hateful, and just down right mean so that you and I can spend eternity in Heaven.
That is a perfect and holy and wonderful love.
A love that none can compare.
A love that, in this World, a lot of people don't care about.
God's love is a wonderful, powerful, and exciting thing.
It heals people, it bring people to life, it brings, joy and hope and peace.
But most don't care or know about that love.
Why?
I ask myself that all the time.
Why don't people know about it?
Why don't people care about it?
Because there is something called sin, and that something is constructed by someone who hates God.
His name is Satan/the Devil/ Lucifer, whatever you want to call him.
This guy used to be an angel of the Lord.
He used to be with God.
He was WITH God!!
He was in God's presence everyday!
Can you imagine being with God every single day for eternity?
And you know what Satan did?
He decided that he was better then God.
He decided that God wasn't worth worshipping and put himself before God.
He fell.
He fell hard and took some angels with him.
He lives in Hell with those angels, who are now called demons.
Satan finds ways to slip those demons into our lives.
They try to ruin friendships, marriages, relationships, lives.
They crush all joy, peace, hope, love, and self confidence.
They try to run our lives, the way Satan wants them.
And if we don't accept God's love we will go with Satan and those demons to an eternity that is worse then this world could ever get.
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Worse then anything we could ever imagine.
But the best part of the story is that God gives His love unconditionally.
No matter what you have done, He will give it to you.
He loves you so much that He calls you His Child!
He doesn't want to lose you.
You are His!
All you have to do to get God's love is to ask.
That is all He wants from you.
He wants us to ask for His help.
He wants us to be so lost without Him, so that if we leave His side nothing is right.
It doesn't matter how many times we mess up or walk away from God, he will take us right back.
In the Bible there is a story called the Prodigal Son.
A son decides that he is ready to leave his home so he asks his father for his inheritance.
The father gives his son his money and the son takes off to go party.
The son goes off and he parties, spend money on food and drinks, women, jewelry, you name it this kid probably did it.
Well, before too long, whoops, he is out of money.
His friends, leave him, he has no job, no food, and no place to live.
Finally his ends up sleeping and eating with pigs.
Hmm, some life.
The son is so scared to face his father.
He isn't sure what his dad will do or say.
Finally he decided to go home and try to work in his father's home as a servant.
As he walks home, his father saw him in the distance and ran to embrace him.
He embraced his son and hugged, and kissed him.
When they got back to the house the son apologized to the father.
The father forgave the son, and ordered a party, a feast, the best food and wine they had to offer, the best robe to dress the son.
He told the servants 'We must celebrate! For my lost son has now returned!'
God wants to do the same for you.
He wants to have a party in your honor to celebrate you returning to his love.
God loves us so much.
He runs and embraces us if we just make an effort.
If you reach out He will catch you.
He will surround you in a love that is greater then any other love.
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