God created Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." When He was finished creating, He declared it very good. Genesis 1:31, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
God gave us free will since His primary goal is to have a family that loves Him and everyone else in His family, John 1:12-13, "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." So, He knocks on the door of our hearts and asks us to love Him as He has loved us. Revelation 3:20, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." and 1 John 4:19, "We love him, because he first loved us." He draws us with His perfect love, Jeremiah 31:3, "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee."
We ask how He has loved us, Malachi 1:2a, "I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?..." Are we so naive? He has loved us by creating us with free will and giving us a perfect world to live in, which we are destroying. Here are a few examples of the many verses where He tells us how much He loves us:
John 13:34-35, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." People will know we are His disciples because this is the way God loves; and wants us to do the same. Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." He proved His love before we even knew Him.
He freed the Israelites before He gave them the Ten Commandments. He wants us to know that His love is eternal, and if we return it, we will have eternal life. John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." He chose us, according to the good pleasure of His will, to be part of His family by planning on creating us in His image before He even started creating. Genesis 1:27, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." and Ephesians 1:4-5, "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will," All have been chosen and invited. However, it is up to us to accept the invitation.
Now, we have a choice to make. Will we accept God's invitation?
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