You were created from love and for it.
What are we thinking? We often have many wrong ideas about God and His nature. We think that He acts one way and wants us to act another. We miss that He is a Father and we are created in His image. When we read the Bible, we often look at it from the perspective of a person that is condemned or a servant. We are reading to look for what is wrong with us now so that we can change a habit or be free of a particular sin. We use the Scripture to find the shortcomings in our lives. It is true that the Bible will show us the areas that we do not measure up to the standard of perfection that God has set, but that is not the primary purpose that it was given. All of Scripture is a love story. It starts with God placing man in a beautiful garden and then fellowshipping with them. When sin enters the picture, we see God fighting for the affections of His people and battling to show them His love and comfort. Even though man, in His fallen state misses God's plan and does not see His ...