I'm In Love With God

I'm in love with God. It's as simple as that.

Ok, so here we are in this world that is cursed and fallen and we are cursed and fallen and wretched in so many ways. We want to be reunited with our Heavenly Dad, but we are just too nasty and naughty to pull it off.

Here's the problem. God, who is perfection, cannot tolerate anything that is imperfect. That's the very nature of God. So when he demands that we, his creatures, also be perfect as he is perfect, well, then, we're in big trouble. We can't do that. We can't pull it off.

Why would God make such a demand of us? Did he intentionally raise the celestial bar too high, so that we cannot help but be left out? Are we striving for our own version of perfection in vain, while God sits back laughing at us knowing we're going to fail?

Well, no.

Ponder, if you will, two aspects of the nature of God. First is the Righteousness of God, the part of God that demands justice. God, being perfection, cannot tolerate even one little itsy bitsy tiny minor sin by one of us, his creatures. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. To accept even one little itsy bitsy tiny minor sin by one of us, his creatures, violates his perfection. Can't be done. So when we do something bad the righteousness of God demands punishment, and will not be denied.

Secondly, however, is the love of God. The love of God demands that even though the creature has really blown it, God and his creature shall be reunited. Period. This love of God will not be denied.

So you see the crisis of the cosmos. How do you punish the creature (the only punishment is the death of the imperfect, flawed creature, by the way) and still be reunited with it? Can't be done. Or can it?

Enter the solution: God knows full well that for us to abide with him forever we must be perfect as he is perfect. God knows full well we can't deliver on that demand. That's where Jesus comes in. Jesus provides the way. So here I am, an imperfect and flawed creature. I must be punished for my sins. Punishment was thereby meted out: on Calvary. Jesus took my punishment for me. Since the punishment for my sins has been delivered, when I meet him then I achieve the perfection that am so horribly lacking in now.

God made a demand I couldn't meet. So he met it for me. Yes, even me.

So I'm in love with God. Now how can I make you in love with him, too?


Pastor Mackster
The Voice of One