So why make a web site for all of this?
- Because I'm not any more special than any other human who has ever
lived or ever will live—God wants
this for everyone, regardless of what they've done or thought.
As my young son said, "We
ALL cost a Jesus!" God sees ALL of us as worth His everything.
- Because how could I knowingly keep something this important (both
in this life and through eternity) from ANYONE? What kind of
person would I be if I withheld the most critical information a
person could ever have? And, goodness—what kind of follower of Jesus would I be if I
withheld it? Right—I'd be no follower at all.
- Because I want others to realize that even if
they've said the WORST things against God or done the worst things
against other people . . . that God still sees them as they will
be when they come to Him—as His own precious sons and daughters
. . . now no less than princes and princesses, children and heirs of the
King Himself.
And He wholeheartedly loves and even delights in you right now.
- Because I love God and His lovely Son, Jesus, more than anyone
else . . . and helping other people to see Them—really SEE Them for all They
are—is what They want most of
all. Jesus said it Himself when the Jewish religious leaders
asked Him what the greatest commandment in the Law of Moses (given
by God) was:
One of them, an expert in the law,
tested Him with this question: "Teacher, which is the
greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied, (referring
to Deuteronomy 6:5, Old Testament)
"'Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest
commandment."
(Matthew 22:35-38
; also in Mark 12: 28-30)
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Can you imagine that??? What the Creator of the Universe wants
most of all is for us to know, believe, and love Him!
Made in God's image and willingly bought by Jesus with
His own blood on the cross, we are the most valuable thing in the
world to Them. Could anyone ever hear any better News
than THAT? That must be why Jesus called it the
"gospel"—the "GOOD News."
(I wish I could say that I love Them with all my
heart, soul, mind, and strength . . . but no one has EVER done that
except Jesus. If I truly loved Them like that, then that means
I'd do what They wanted ALL the time—even when I'm mad, tired, hungry, in
pain, scared, etc. Even though I love Them more than I love
anyone else and do things for Them that I'd do for NO ONE else—I know I put myself above Them whenever I choose my way
instead of Theirs. And that means that I also put myself as
God and master of myself instead of Them—so now I've gotten into idolatry!
We humans are crazy things—we can finally get to the point that we
know that God is completely good, wise, and powerful . . . and yet
still think we know a better way to do things than He does.
Yet He still loves us, and still kees us, and keeps working with us, and
actually adopts us if we'll only let Him. Absolutely amazing . . .
.)
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