God is Love

The Bible tells us that God is love (I John 4:8).  The Bible also tells us that love is of God (I John 4:7).

Christ himself is God (John 1:1).  And to repeat what I wrote earlier, in the gospel John, Philip asks Christ: "Show us the Father."  Christ responded, "Have I been with you for so long and yet you do not know me...  He who has seen me have seen the Father.'  (John 14:9).  Read what Jesus said, how he acted and what He did.  Jesus was not a prophet (a man inside a human body who spoke God's words), but God inhabiting a human body.  (incidentally this is not rocket science; it was a very east fertilization, similar to cloning, of Mary's egg that produced a human body.  Instead of sending a human spirit inside it, He went Himself.)  The personality and character of God can be seen in Jesus.  You can see the nature of God by looking at Christ and by looking at what He did for you on the cross when He died.  He RESCUED YOU.

God came for you.  He came in the only way he could to legally and factually save you by reuniting you with Himself.  He took away you sins, punishment, and the curses and the evil that exists on and in you.  The cross was not a place of defeat; on the contrary, it was a place of victory and compassion.

Focus on and understand the sacrifice, pain and hardship and the mind-boggling, emotional experience it was for Go to do what He did: come for you and me and take what we so richly deserve so He could get us back.  God wanted and wants you with all His heart.

Let me repeat:  God came for you!  He is not mad at you.  He came to take await what is between you and Him.  He came because of love.  He loves you.  He came to save you and to welcome you into His family.

At last comment about God's love:  understanding the immensity of creation - (billions of planets), multiple dimensions, 7 billion people on the planet - it can be hard to think that any person is special or personally loved.  However, in the infinite greatness of God He is able and does LOVE us individually and completely...and He has time for each of us as though we were the only one (see section on God's humor).