God is love and God says that the greatest love is to lay down His life for a friend. At some point in eternity past before God created anything there was only Him. God, by Himself, full of love, being love Himself and defining love by Himself, thinking about you and I. God was thinking about laying down His life for all of us.
Since God defines love by Himself then the liberty I took with the following verses is absolutely true about God.
God is patient, God is kind. He does not envy, He does not boast, He is not proud. God is not rude, He is not self-seeking, He is not easily angered, He keeps no record of wrongs. God does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. God always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. God never fails (1 Corinthians 13:3-8).
Out of this list of attributes we can safely say that God does not demand His own way. God will not force anyone to do anything. God is not a dictator. Since God does not demand His own way God realized that there would have to be freewill in the reality He was about to create. There would have to be a choice. Think about it. The mighty eternal God who is sufficient in Himself, needing nothing and no one, looks into the future He was about to create and saw that most of it would choose to deny Him and yet He still spoke, He still entered in, He still came to give up His life for YOU!
In my next post we'll begin looking at freewill and how God let's us have it while still knowing and controlling every detail of everything. We might see some angels too.
1 comment:
Interesting connection between God and I Cor. 13. Looking forward to hearing more.
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