Title Philippians 02:5-8
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God is the Creator. God created the heavens and the earth. All of the heavens and the earth, including mankind, are God's creations, but God has never made any other creatures other than humans to have conversations with God or to love them with interest. He allowed only humans to communicate with God and made them the ones who would be loved by Almighty God.
However, despite receiving such great grace, man committed the sin of eating the forbidden fruit, which God commanded not to eat, and was separated from God. At that moment, he was deprived of all the right to happiness in Eden. God called Adam, who had sinned and hid in fear, “Adam, where are you?” Adam did not hear God's voice as the voice of mourning love, telling him to confess his sins and return to the place where he is loved by God. Rather, he concealed his sins and made excuses, saying, “The woman you made made them eat and ate them” (Genesis 3:12). Even now, God is looking for people who tremble in fear through the Bible. The Bible is full of the voice of the Lord's mournful love, seeking to find and save humans who have died from God.
God worked with active and intense love to restore human beings who have lost their value as a creature to be loved. That is, He atoned for human sins by sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to be crucified and shed His blood. Also, Jesus Christ longed for human happiness as a result of his sincere and intense love for mankind. So, he revealed his true love through the Bible. To the sick, 'He who believes will lay his hands on the sick, and they will recover' (Mark 16:18), and to those who suffer from sin, 'If you believe in the fact that Jesus died on the cross and shed His blood and repent, your sins will be forgiven and you will be saved. You will receive it' (John 3:16, John 5:24), and to those who have the impossible problem, he promised, 'Ask in my name and it will be done' (John 14:12-14).
We must raise the faith to possess the love of God, who loved human beings so intensely, and His Son, Jesus Christ, fervently before God. The Lord is always truthful. The Lord was true to us humans until He took on flesh and shed His blood on the cross. We, who have received such great love, must also sincerely accept that love as our share until we die for the sake of the Lord and for the time of our own souls. Confessions and expressions of gratitude that we have received grace as we are those who have received that love should overflow more and more.