Wow, this world makes it so easy to feel like God does not care about you or that you are not even worthy of his care. The enemy likes to create distance between creation and the creator by telling us these lies. If we believe God does not care about us then why should we care about him?
1 John 4:9-11 “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
From the very beginning God loved to be with his creation, he walked with them in the garden and spent quality time with them. But when humanity fell he could no longer be around us due to sin. But did God give up? Did God abandon us? Did God let us die off? No. God made Adam and Eve leave the garden not out of spite but because it made a way for them to one day be united with him again in heaven. He then sent messages to prophets and spoke verbally to his people to still communicate. Then he sent his son to die for us at the highest cost imaginable, but we were worth it to God.
There is a theological concept called sovereign initiative, which means God from the very beginning has always met with us first. He has always made a way for us to meet with him, we are forever in second place. We do not have to hope God will be able to love us because he is love. No matter how far we stray or how much we sin, God will always be waiting for us to come home. Yes, our sin can create space between us and God but there is nothing that can not be redeemed. I know when I mess up I feel like I can’t pray to God because he won’t want to hear from me, but the exact opposite is true. The reason our performance does not matter is because it can’t matter. We will never be good enough which is what is so incredible about how he continually reaches out this hand for us.
Isaiah 54:10 "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you."
The above verse is a promise from God. He is telling the people of Isreal that although some of them may worship creation itself instead of the creator one day the creation will fall. But when this world is stripped away, God’s love for us will remain and so will his sovereignty. Those who choose to believe in him will be kept at peace with him eternally.
Sources: Matthew Henry Commentary, NIV Study Bible
