Have You Lost Sight of God's Eternal Love for You?

So when Jesus says that I love you, I mean, there's an intimacy there because when you look at how he loves the woman caught in adultery and the woman at his feet, we're talking about the woman issue, had the issue of blood,

Zacchaeus, look how he loves Peter. I mean, all of those stories, we should read them and this giddy anticipation going, that's the same love he for you.

That's right. We're going to live with Jesus in his humanity. Like he's, he's, he, as a human, he is sitting at the right hand of God.

For whatever reason, the Lord took you to his, his kingdom there. And you were to see Jesus.

You'd see him as a man. That's how you see him. And when he comes back, he comes back as a man. Why that's significant is that we are humans.

And so God has come to relate to us as a man. It's un, it's unreal. It is unreal.

To me, it's a mind blow that God made humanity, knowing that God, the son would become one.

Right. That's part of what it means to be made in God's image. In my mind, Paul talks about how, you know, the saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance that Christ came into the world to save centers of whom

I'm the foremost. And then he says that effectively Christ has been this patient and this merciful with him as the chief of centers so that the saints will know that he'll be patient and merciful with them.

If Jesus went to Zacchaeus, like sought Zacchaeus out, who was a, who was a center, stops a moving parade, looks up into the tree and with exclamation calls out to him,

Zacchaeus, you need to hurry and come down. Cause I'm going to, I'm going to stay at your house today. I'm going to be with you today. If he says that to Zacchaeus, he says that to you, says that to me.

I think it's interesting when Paul says, cast all your anxiety on him, because if you don't, you're in trouble.

Yeah. So cast all your cares on him because say it to him.

He cares for you. Those, those are the moments I want to plop down in my chair and go, okay, well

I got some things on my mind, you know, like I don't like that. I don't really understand who you are and it feels like you're far away and I want you here now.

That's right. Like you want to ask me about my anxiety and my anxiety isn't. That's exactly right. Yeah. I love everything you're saying right now.

Yeah. It's like, man, I wish I knew you better. Yeah. You know, those are, those are how I feel. And then like, I don't, I don't like that.

I don't like that. I struggle with lust. I don't like that. I struggle with anger. No kidding. I mean, you're talking about what makes me anxious.

These are the things that make me anxious. These are the things that plague my soul. And then the response is I care.

Right. It's, it's overwhelming. It's overwhelming. Well, and, and I would remember thinking as a kid, man, everything's okay because Jesus is with me, you know, and I could almost in my little childlike brain,

I could visualize in one sense that like my savior is, is, is holding my hand, walking me in school and I'm going to be okay.

I don't know exactly where, you know, down the road, like some of those kinds of thoughts, you just don't think in those ways anymore.

Um, but I, in recent months and through conversations that we've been having, I lean into stuff like that just to remind myself of like, you know, those notions

I had as a child were not wrong that he's with me. He's with you. He's with us, you know?

And he's like, he's like, he's like, my boys, I love you. You know, I'm for you. And, and I I'm happy to be with you and my spirit's going to continue to work in and through you.

And when this is all over, we're going to be together. We're going to eat and drink and it's going to be great. Yep. If it doesn't lead you down to Christ for you, how personally

Christ loves you, has affection on you, then all that doctrine is of no value.

It must result in the faith and trust in, in Christ and that faith and trust.

And I'll just last time I'll say the faith and trust is he loves you so much.

He died for you, but that's what your faith and trust is Nothing else matters because if you're not underneath his love, underneath his grace and mercy, you're underneath his wrath.