God is not our enemy…

God says,

That we have been created in His image (Genesis 1: 27. James 3:9)

That every human being on this planet is of equal worth (Job 31:15; Proverbs 22: 2; Matthew 23: 8-12; Acts 10: 28; 17: 26-28; Galatians 3: 28-29.)

That He loves us all no matter what (Romans 5: 8)

That we have no authority over nature which He freely provides for us (Job 28:12-13.)

That we’re called to be a good stewards of that which He has been placed into our hands (Genesis 1:28. Psalm 8:6-8, 1 Peter 4:10.)

That He has gifted us all with being able to work on the earth (Psalm 8: 6-8.)

That He gifted us each with our own spirit which gives the ability to reason (Job 32: 8)

That He is mindful of each and every one of us (Psalm 8: 3-5; 139: 14-16; Luke 12:7)

That we are important to Him, even in our mother’s wombs (Psalm 139: 14.)

That He has appointed us all to the time and place in which we exist (Psalm 139:16; Acts 17: 26.)

That He grieves with us when we are in pain and we are suffering (John 11:35)

That He is greatly grieved by our evil choices and the destruction and pain of the curse which has befallen the kosmos because of our sin. (Genesis 6: 6-7; 1 Samuel 15: 35; Isaiah 63: 10; Jeremiah 42: 10; Ezekiel 6:9)

But still He had mercy on us all. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16-17

That by the suffering and sacrifice of His Son, we can all be healed (Isaiah 53: 5; 1 Peter 2: 24)

That we are His workmanship (Ephesians 2:8.)

That if we acknowledge His Son on earth, then Jesus Christ will acknowledge us before His Father in heaven (Matthew 10:32)

That we can be forgiven (1 John 1:9)

That we can be adopted as children of God (Ephesians 1:5)

That we can be citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20.)

That we can be transformed into beings fit for heaven (2 Corinthians 3:18)

That those in Christ have been called to be salt and light (Matthew 5: 13-14)

That He has called us to be ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20.)

That in Christ’s resurrection we will be made alive (I Corinthians 15: 21-22.)

That my ‘spirit is willing, but my body is weak’ (Matthew 26: 41; Romans 7: 14-25.)

That in Christ we can be set free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8: 1-2.)

That we are called to worship in ‘spirit and in truth’ (John 4: 24)

That our bodies can be the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6: 19-20.)

That we can inherit eternal rest (Hebrews 4:9–11; Matthew 25:34; Psalm 16:11.)

That He will finally make it all as it should have been (Revelation 21: 4)

That His Word can provide the guidance for our lives we so desperately need (Hebrews 4:12.)