The heart of God desires and treasures you. You are the apple of His eye, the one in whom He delights. You are wanted, regardless of whatever condition your heart is in, because He is love. Notice His perfect plan which is to have each person saved from the consequences of sin and brought into knowing Him and His love forever, as declared in 1 Timothy 2:3-4 , “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
Supernatural blessings are available and given to each person. The obvious foundation of His gift of love to man is “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Other verses likewise show His care and provision for every person. In the last days I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. It rains on the just and the unjust. The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. Psalm 145:9. The Lord opens His hand and satisfies the desire of every living thing. Psalm 145:16.
Consider the parable of the man who found a treasure in the field. He willingly sold or gave up all he had and bought the field, not for the land, but for the treasure within it. Jesus is the man. He gave up His heavenly glory to become a man and then as a man humbled Himself laying down up all He had, including His life blood (Philippians 2), in order to claim the treasure in the field/world, which is you and I. Because of the joy set before Him, He endured the cross.
Satan’s lie is that you are a nobody, just a number, a creature of chance and evolution like one of the animals with no life purpose or future. The suicide rate of young people has risen as they see no reason to live. Revelation 12:9 calls the devil and Satan, the one “who deceived the whole world.” Jesus correctly declared Satan was a liar and that there is no truth in him.
However, on the other hand, Jesus sees you so absolutely valuable that He takes joy in being willing to die for you. “Because of the joy set before Him” (Hebrews 12:2), He endured the cross and the humiliation and suffering. You are worth it, actually worth infinitely more than you could ask, think, or imagine. Be still a moment, look up to the Father, and just receive His personal love, like a big engulfing hug in your spirit.
When God breathed His life into man whom He had formed from the “dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7), this breath of God crated man as an eternal being designed to live with Him and share His glory forever. Even though man sinned and fell short, God never gave up on us, but sent Jesus to redeem us, paying the awesome price of His own blood to bring us back to the Father. After all this demonstration of His love and purpose, God still allows us to choose. “I have set before you life and death” (Deuteronomy 30:19) with the revealing of His heart, “Choose life” that you may live.
Those who receive Him He gave the right to become children of God. How do you receive Him? The answer is a simple “yes” in our heart and telling Him “thank you” just as you would if someone gave you a special present.
Regardless of whether you are dead in sin or alive in Jesus, you are wanted, loved, and treasured by the Lord who desires you to simply come to Him and be filled with every good thing forever. Lay down your pride and excuses, and as the Billy Graham revival song says, “just as I am, O Lamb of God, I come.”
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