Steps to Christ: God's Love for Man

The word of God reveals His character. He Himself has declared his infinite love and pity. When Moses prayed, "Show me They glory," the Lord answered, "I will make all My goodness pass before thee." Exodus 33:18, 19. This is His glory. The Lord passes before Moses, and proclaimed, "The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin." Exodus 34:6, 7. He is "slow to anger, and of great kindness," "because He delighteth in mercy." Jonah 4:2; Micah 7:18.

God has bound our hearts to Him by unnumbered tokens in heaven and in earth. Through the things of nature, and the deepest and tenderest earthly ties that human hearts can know, He has sought to reveal Himself to us. Yet these but imperfectly represent His love. Through all these evidences have been given, the enemy of good blinded the minds of men, so that they looked upon God with fear; they thought of Him as severe and unforgiving. Satan led men to conceive of God as being whose chief attribute is stern justice - one who is a Creator as a being who is watching with jealous eye t discern the errors and mistakes of men, that He may visit judgments upon them. It was to remove this dark shadow, by revealing to the world the infinite love of God, that Jesus came to live among men.

The Son of God came from heaven to make manifest the Father, "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of he Father, He hat declared Him." John 1:18. "Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." Matthew 11:27 When one of the disciples made the request, "Show us the Father," Jesus answered, "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me hat seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us he Father?" John 14:8, 9.

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What this passages appeal for me is the fact that I found a symbolism that I can relate to. Jesus stated how whoever saw Him, has seen the Father himself. In our modern society, we have a role model. And what I think that John 14:8, 9 and is telling me is that we have to be like Jesus who represented God Himself. We were the same as Jesus. Jesus is human after all. We are alike therefore, we must consecrate living the way Jesus did representing God in every single day of our lives. No one could see him yet because you will be blinded so he showed his love for us by sending his only begotten son even if it was an "imperfectly" presentation. He shows us His love by sending his son to represent his own being and that Jesus was the example we should be following as well. I love you Daddy! Good night! :*