Magnifying God: Embracing His Love and Relationship

But then mankind goes and causes a problem that mankind cannot fix have you guys ever thought about that the lord kind of like unraveled that in my brain a couple years ago and i cannot really wrap my mind around how crazy that is that in the garden of eden mankind creates a problem that they cannot fix and because of that choice and because of that decision and the sin that is a result of adam and eve's choice there's a rift between us and god let me put it this way our default setting is to have a relationship with God and mankind chose to opt out. [00:49:57] (51 seconds)

God, the eternal creator of the universe, of everything that we see and know who's worthy of praise just because he's God. That same God loves Jesus Christ, the savior of the world. And as much as God loves Jesus, Jesus loves you. And guess what? Jesus is God. God loves you that much. That's how much God loves you. [00:53:36] (29 seconds)

``God loves us so much that he sent his son, Jesus, to die for us. And it says, God loves us in this way that while we were still sinners, Christ died, Romans 5 .8. And we move on to probably one of the most VBS verses that we all know, right? That God so loved the world. Don't let that ever be lost on you. Sometimes in repetition, as we say things and we learn things and we memorize things and we say them over and over, we tend to lose the gravity of a certain phrase or passage or truth. God loved the world so much. He cared so deeply. He loved so much. He desires for us to have that relationship that we were meant to have so much that he gives his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but will have eternal life. [00:54:52] (65 seconds)

While sin is too big for us to fix, it's not too big for God. And so he sends his son Jesus to die for us. And in this, when we give our lives to him, as small as you might feel like you are, and the reality is compared to God, we're really small. But when we talk about God being magnified in the small things, this is what we mean. Each little piece of everything that God does is so intentional and so specific. And it highlights his care, his love for us, for his creation. And it magnifies him all the more because he didn't have to do it. He didn't have to, but he chose to. He chose to do it. [00:56:47] (50 seconds)

We magnify God because he's faithful. Even when we weren't faithful, God was faithful. Remember, we chose to opt out. In the beginning, we chose to distance ourselves from him. But through this divine plan that God has, through his care and his love and sending his son Jesus to die for us, what God does is he provides a way, he provides a choice for us to opt back in. [00:57:59] (34 seconds)

You see, because we were made for relationship. We're meant for relationship. We are meant and made to be in relationship with God. That's how we are supposed to live. You're created for it, but we opted out of it. And what can we do? Because we opted out, but we don't know how to get back in. We can't choose. We couldn't fix it. So God comes and he opens up a way. He provides hope for us to choose to opt back in through his son, Jesus. [00:58:37] (34 seconds)

No matter where you are in your life, no matter where you are in your journey, I want you to know God is faithful. God cares about you. God loves you. God provides a way for you to opt in to the relationship that you were meant to have, that you can't fulfill with anything else. Nothing. There's nothing else that will fulfill in you, that will fulfill in your life, the missing piece that God is supposed to have. [01:00:27] (35 seconds)

My encouragement to you this morning, as we magnify God and we magnify his care and his love and his salvation and his faithfulness, is to opt in to the relationship that you were meant to have. [01:01:04] (17 seconds)