God’s longing for our love

God, being the transcendent and the holy One could exist on His own. God doesn't really need us, He could get everything with just a snap of His finger. But the question is that what is the reason why God made us? Well, I believe that He created us for His own pleasure.

“What is the thing that we have that gives pleasure to God?”

God created us so that He could show His love to us. He loves us so much that He created everything in the beginning perfectly for men to live. Now, what God only wants from us that would give pleasure to Him is to simply love Him back. If God wanted to, He could have even made us like a puppet who are forced to love Him back, but He didn’t. God has emotions, and He created us with the same emotions, for we are created in His own image and likeness. God wants to feel our love for Him that is why He embedded in us these emotions and “free-will” when He created us. We could choose if we want to love Him back or not.

“How can we show our love to God?”

As it was written on 2 John 1:6, loving God is when we walk in obedience to His commands. If we look back in the time of Moses, all God do is to command. He wants His people to obey what He says because only in this way that His people could love Him back. It is a man’s obedience that gives pleasure to God. Even at the time He created Adam and Eve, He tested their love for Him through their obedience, but the bad thing is that they have failed. But still, God didn’t stop seeking for our love, like again, in the time of Moses where He even promised to provide food (Leviticus 26:4), grant peace (Leviticus 26:6), victory (Leviticus 26:7-8), fruitfulness (Leviticus 26:9) and have fellowship (Leviticus 26:11) to those people who would obey His commands. That is how God longs for our love so much.

God didn’t find the exact love He was searching for in that time for the sole reason that many of His people had become disobedient. God didn’t find the obedience He wants to see from the people simply because men, being mortals, always fail. So what God did is that He sent His only Son to live among us (that is why He is called Emmanuel) and showed to us the obedience that God wants. Jesus pleased His Father so much because of His obedience, from His way of living, until His very death on the cross. Then I thought about what God would have felt when He saw Jesus having the punishment He does not deserve. Of course, I know that it hurts Him so much, but God knows that this is the only way He could show how great His love is for us so that we would return to Him.

This revelation brought me to this realization that obeying God is very hard to do if it is based on human works. Many have failed in the time of Moses, but now, because of God’s own work, obeying Him would not be that hard anymore. Thanks be to God that because of Jesus’ obedience, we are now fueled by the grace of God for all good works. It is because of God’s grace and love for us that we would obey Him and love Him back.

Thank You again Jesus for all the work You have done for us!

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