There are so many people seeking. Trying to understand God. Trying to find out the meaning of life and their purpose on this earth; trying to make sense of it all. Lord, you created us in the beginning for the sole purpose of Loving.
All things were created for You to love, for us to love You back, for us to love each other and the earth around us--Your Creation. Somewhere along the way we made a choice. We chose to know more than we needed to know. All we needed was to love You. You were there to supply everything else. There was no need to know good vs. evil. We only knew good--we were perfect; we didn't need to eat from that tree. All we needed to do was love You.
Loving You meant obeying your commands. Trusting in You. Worshiping You. You gave us free will to choose so that the choice to love you, obey you and trust you in itself would be an act of worship. You didn't want robots automatically programmed to act a certain way. There is no love in that. Lucifer failed this test. He wanted to be loved more than he wanted to love. That caused him to want all the love for himself; more love than all the other angels. It caused rebellion and sin. Lucifer thought he was better than the others. He was full of pride. And You oh Lord, were forced to cast him out of Heaven apart from You. Rejection was born. The root of all sin here on Earth.
Since then, Satan has wanted every other creature on earth to feel rejected. The whole premise of this worldly system of things is based on who is wanted. Who is idolized. The goal of this sinful world is to be the one who everyone loves more than anyone else. The goal of Heaven is opposite--to love everyone else more than your own desire to be loved. To lay your own desires down, to nail them to The Cross. It's all about pouring your love out upon others so that God can refill you with more of His love. Deeper and deeper revelations of His love each time. The Knowledge, the true knowledge that Adam should have been concerned with in the garden was the Knowledge of God. Knowing the Creator and Master. To know Him, to truly know God, is to love Him completely. That is all there is to know--His Love is Everything. God is Everything! And His whole being is based upon love.
That is God's whole motivation for everything He has done and continues to do. That is all we need to know. We will not have a complete revelation of God and how much He loves us, or what real true love feels like in its fullness until the Fullness of God is revealed to us when He returns. But until then, we can seek night and day to love Him more, receive more of His love and give more and more love away as we go through life as He originally intended--receiving deeper and deeper revelations of just who this loving God is that we serve.
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