The Journey Home part 2: Behold the manner of love
Pastor Grant Peterson
Life consists of relationships: our relationship with one another and our relationship with God.
The value we place on our relationship with God determines how we perceive ourselves, others, and events that occur in our lives.
For some, past hurts and experiences have tainted their understanding of God. They misunderstand God because they filter God through their experiences and what others have said. A wrong understanding of God will create wrong beliefs about God’s true nature.
Romans 15:13
Now, may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
As believers, we are never without hope! How the Bible defines hope and how the world defines hope are very different. The world thinks hope is wishing something will happen. But how the Bible defines hope as a confident expectation that what God has said will come to pass!
1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
Behold, the heart of our Heavenly Father, His love toward you, that He has called you His child.
It's no wonder we don't fit into this world's system and ideas. Our identity is from God, the Creator Himself.