The Ways of God

Recently I've been seeking out the Lord on some things. I've been asking
Him to allow me to hear His voice clearly. I've been asking Him to help me
to understand Who He really is.

Most of all, He has revealed His grace and His love to me. It's hard to describe
just how much the Lord loves each and every one of us. Each one of us is so
valuable in His sight. He esteems us so highly.

I think right now of those who say that God is cruel because of such atrocities
as the holocaust, or war, or abortion, or other such cruelties. My answer to that
would be that man makes mistakes. People mess up. From the very beginning,
God gave man a choice to obey or disobey Him. This was in the Garden of Eden.

God said to Adam, 'You can eat of any tree in the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge
of Good and Evil you must not eat, lest you die.' And so there was the one 'rule', per se,
that Adam had in the garden. He had a choice to obey or disobey God. And we all
know that he chose to disobey God rather than tend the garden as he was given to do.

Because of Adam's disobedience, death entered into the world. And with that act of
disobedience came man's estrangement from God.

But that is why Jesus came. He came to restore what was lost in the Garden.
He came to 'seek and to save that which was lost', which was man's relationship
with God. Jesus had the choice to obey or disobey in His lifetime on earth, but He
was faithful, faithful even to death upon a cross. And in that act of sacrifice, He reconciled
the world to Himself, through His blood. The Word says that there is life in the blood.
So quite literally, the Life of God, or the blood of God, has the power to utterly save
all those who put their trust in the sacrifice of Christ. It is as simple as believing, believing
with the heart, the whole heart, in sincerity.

God longs to have a wonderful relationship with us. But it is only when we see how much
we need Him, and how far He went to save us, when we see that He truly is a God who
seeks us out, no matter what it takes.