Why does He love me? by SP

Why Does God Love Me?



I was his idea and dream. More beautiful than all of His creation ..his
crown jewel ..and the pearl of great price. I was created a little lower
than the angels and crowned with glory and honor. Masterpiece..and center of
it all.



But my choice to choose sin destroyed His idea and dream. I became
unrecognizable from His original intent. To restore my original value..he
had to become what I was. He became sin who knew no sin..that I might become
his righteousness. He became unrecognizable so I could be redeemed! It took
the cross..and nothing less than the power of His shed blood to do this.



Wow. He must really love me.

I am now free to move about the cabin

Jesus said to Peter the night He was betrayed, "You are going to deny me" and then in the very next breath "don't let your heart be troubled". In other words, Peter you are a mess but don't worry about it. It's bad, really bad but I'm going to fix you! "

I'm going to prepare a place for you Peter, in Fathers Heart", (He wasn't speaking about a mansion just over the hill top). He was speaking about a place peculiar to Peter....a place with Peter's name on it in Father's heart....the place He had prepared for Peter in Father's heart before the worlds were made, a place that was otherwise entirely unreachable by Peter because of his predicament....so marred by sin....so poor, so weak, wretched man that he was.

Jesus was saying to Peter, "I am going to the cross to fix you once and for all. I am going to redeem your place of identity in father's heart, yours and my place as well.


George Mac Donald, C S Lewis' inspiration writes "Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God. He is to God a peculiar being, made after His own fashion and that of no one else...hense he can worship God as no man else can worship, can understand God as no man else can understand God. This or that man may understand God better than he, but no other man can understand God as he understands Him.... In every man there is an inner chamber of peculiar life into which God only can enter. I say not that it is the innermost chamber but a chamber into which no brother nay no sister can come.


From this it follows that there is a chamber also (oh God humble and accept my speech) a chamber in God Himself into which none can enter but the one, the individual, the peculiar man, out of which chamber that man has to bring revelation and strength for his brethren. This is that for which he was made- to reveal the secret things of the Father"...some-what paraphrased with a little old English in it as my memory recalls.


This chamber MacDonald is speaking of was completely unreachable for Peter and for me because sin had so marred me... beyond recognition. But I am His creation, His crown jewel, apple of His eye and His pearl of great price.


The big question?
"What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you should visit him...made a little lower than the angels, yet crowned with glory to rule over His creation."


Restoring me to my fullest potential, my created identity was a particular burden on Jesus heart as he faced the cross. For the joy set before Him (me and my tiny slot in history) he endured the cross. Scripture say's of Him, His visage was marred more than any other man. He actually became my sin.

How He looked on that cross was a complete identification with me and the damage sin had brought about in my identity. He not only spiritually but visually as well identified with my visage, so marred by sin because of love.

You see I am His uniquely crafted child.
There is a place in Father's heart with my DNA on it. It has always been there since way before time...a place He re-prepared for me on Calvary. I call it the Lloyd shaped vacuum in the heart of God.
Whoopie!!!


My and your identity destroyed by sin was fully restored at Calvary. Redemption means we were brought back to our original created value. That's the literal meaning of the word.


What actually transpired there you ask?
Jesus took my particular sins, the sin that so marred my identity, and so easily besets me, upon himself, was made to be that particular sin, and He destroyed it's power over me, setting me free to be a everything He dreamed about me before the worlds were created. (Full Redemption)

Sin now has no power over me. I have been restored to my original created value. I am my beloved's and He is mine and His banner over me is love...I am so loved by God.
I am now free to move about the cabin and grow up in all things into Him.


Roman's seven is no longer my story or Peter's
(Oh wretched man that I am, who will set me free?)


Roman's eight is now our story.
Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

:inspired by association with Dan Mohler and Wayne Jacobsen

I will never be closer to God than I am right now!

I will never have a closer relationship with Jesus than I have right now!

Now that's a light that needs to be turned on! I mean right here right now, at this moment!

If what happened on the cross is really what happened than it's true.

I have been brought near by the blood of the cross....no enmity, no animosity, no distance...I am as close to Jesus as I can ever be...right here, right now, just as I am.

Nothing I do can make me any closer; neither prayer, bible reading, church attendance, fellowship, repentance, or righteous living.

Nothing I can do will bring Him closer!

Nothing I can do will make Him leave!

He did it all....took care of the sin issue once and for all and promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone.

Breath on that for a while, like every free moment you get!

Wishing He were here, pleading for Him to come, desperation for His presence is no longer where you or I live. He has come! He is here! He has never left me! From the moment He came...

Lord, give me greater revelation of this truth. I chose to believe and live in it's reality ...so there will be more of you and less of me.

Well... shall I sin that grace may abound?

You've got to be kidding!

Why would I want to, when grace abounds?

He lost His bearings!

I am finding this a new daily exercise....being loved by the most amazing of fathers and no longer living with a morbid consciousness of sin.

And it all started at the cross!

"What is so amazing about the cross" you ask?

Oh, I am so glad to tell you.

It continues to be my newest and bestest discovery.

I am beginning to get it. Give me another 20 years.

I am driving into Charlotte to work these days laughing and crying my way in as He loves on me. I have to compose myself before I enter my work zone lest they all think I am crazy.

My circumstances haven't changed much. Still in a tough spot on many sides but it has less and less effect on my day's any more. I am so loved by God!

Alright, I give.

Here is a small piece of it.

The cross is all the proof I need that I am loved. Circumstances may or may not line up according to my schedule but the cross was where Jesus, because of love so identified with me and my condition and through it broke the power of sin forever over me. Hallelujah!

He became sin, my sin. Like I said before, it wasn't the cross that killed Him. It was my sin and the sin of the whole world. There was no sin in Him. He couldn't die no matter what they threw at Him.

But when He took my sin upon Himself and because of it lost His bearings. He really did lose His bearings. He had never lived one minute of His life outside of His relationship with His Father. The closest thing to it was in the wilderness. But this was a thousand times worse. He could not see His Father. Sin had the same effect on Him that it has on us. It blinded Him of His Father's presence and His truest identity.

When He cried out "My God, My God why have you forsaken me," He was feeling the impact of my sin, the same impact that you and I are so familiar with. I don't want to be presumptuous but I believe in the darkness of that hour He lost His bearings, His truest identity. It felt like God had some how turned His back on Him. The scourging, the nails in His feet and hands, the crown of thorns and the rejection He was experiencing from the sneering mob were terrible but nothing compared to the isolation, loneliness and abandonment He felt in that moment from His Father. I believe it was in that crushing moment, when He became my sin and the sin of the whole world.

Even though it were not true. Even though the Father was in Christ at that moment reconciling the world to Himself, from His perspective there was not a shred of evidence that it were true. Sin had so blinded His eyes that He felt not an iota of the love that was in the room.

The Father had not left for even an instant. Scripture is clear on that. God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit were identifying with us in our sinful state and through it providing the act that for all of creation would allow us to become friends with God. This was the plan of the ages. The culminating focal point in all of history. When Adam and Eve sinned Father, Son and Holy Spirit already knew what our redemption would cost them.

Marred beyond recognition, He exactly represented for all to see the marring that sin had produced in you and me. Sin had so destroyed our truest identity and on the cross He mirrored our depravity. Then in the midst of the horror he also experienced the lostness that is the dilemma of every man and woman born since Adam and Eve. "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?"

And in that moment of complete darkness, on your and my behalf He chose to entrust Himself to the Father. "Father into your hands I commit my spirit." "I still BELIEVE, I still BELIEVE, I still BELIEVE." And then he died.

And in that moment the power of sin was broken.

Paul writes, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ who lives in me and the life I live in this flesh, I now live by the Faith OF the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."

LaughOutLoud...Go ahead!

We now get to live form His Faith. When yours and mine runs out, when we feel pressed in by life and circumstances take a good look at the Faith of Jesus. We now get to live off His Faith in His darkest moment.

"How blessed we are at the end of our rope, for when we are at the end of our rope there is less of me so there can be more of Him."

And how blessed to no longer be living my life with a consciousness of sin. Really I mean it! This is the miracle that I am beginning to enjoy every day and how cool it is.

HE LOVES ME!

Thank you Jesus!

Loved by God

A new command, (different than the Old Covenant commandments) I give to you. "Love one another as I love you."

Imagine yourself sitting down and God in Christ , creator of all that is, coming over to you with a basin of water and a towel and one after the other washing the dirt off your feet and drying them. And imagine that accepting this one act is the entrance into every thing Jesus.

I mean imagine it right now! Go ahead and imagine Him, the God of the universe washing and drying your feet as the pre-requisite for relationship.

Does that blow you away? Is that humbling or what?

He then says "If I your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet."

The revelation of "being loved" is absolutely essential for "living loved."

Prayer, Bible reading, fasting, foot washing, giving etc. are the privilege of lovers, the response of being loved, never the means of attaining it.

You will never be more loved than you are right now. You will never be closer to God than you are right now.

Our joy in life is to discover and live daily in the fresh revelation of His love and nearness, experiencing the transformation it brings in us and around us, Joy, health, color, fragrance and flavor for you and your world.

Double Rainbow

Peter said "no way, you will never wash my feet."

Jesus responded, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me."

Refusing to let Jesus wash my feet excludes me from not just his friendship but everything else. He says "I would have NO PART in Him."

The correct response would be "Lord, don't just wash my feet, wash me all over." But Jesus corrected Peter with "If you have had a bath you only need your feet washed."

Now that is a double rainbow right there! "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?"

We can't just skip over this and proceed to the cross.
This was also the same night He would die as our sin and for our sin, by far the largest act of love God would accomplish on our behalf....but there is something really big right here.

God wants to wash my feet?

He carried my sin upon the cross.

He became sin for me.

But He also wants to serve me by washing my feet?

My approval gives me access to everything Jesus! but my refusal is ultimately my rejection of everything Jesus. If I let Him wash my feet I get everything, if I refuse I get nothing!

Nothing I can do qualifies me; neither fasting, prayer, foot washing, Bible reading, or church going.

The above "must do list" is for children in a dysfunctional or rather schizophrenic relationship with their heavenly Father! (The relationship is on again, off again, depending on me and what I am doing.)

I will never be closer to Jesus than I am when He washes my feet. I will never be closer to God than I am in this endearing moment. This is my daily quest! This pre-qualifies me for everything Jesus....discovering His love in the mundane ordinary life I live, in between my toes.

It is called "living loved."

Hahahahhahaha....double rainbow in the sky!

Friendship with Jesus, fellowship divine, OH what precious sweet communion, Jesus is a friend of mine!

Double Rainbow

Peter said "no way, you will never wash my feet."

Jesus responded, "If I do not wash you, you have no part in me."

Refusing to let Jesus wash my feet excludes me from not just his friendship but every thing else. He says "I would have NO PART in Him."

The correct response would be "Lord, don't just wash my feet, wash me all over."

But Jesus corrected Peter with "If you have had a bath you only need your feet washed."

Now that is a double rainbow right here! "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?"

This was also the night He would die as our sin and for our sin.