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We Are Made to Be Together, To Love One Another

The kind of relationship God invites us into is the father-son kind. God made us his sons. His actual sons. 

“Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family” (Eph. 1:5). “Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are” (1 John 3:1).

You are his beloved son. I am too. We have all the rights, privileges, and authority of true sons. And he loves each of us “in the same way” that he loves his begotten Son, Jesus (John 17:23).

The very reason God made us, actually, was to have someone— lots of someones—to love. He made us in his likeness. He wired us like him—down in the deepest, the basal places of us, down in our machine language, down in our DNA.

“You and I are in little (our sins excepted) what God is in large,” wrote A. W. Tozer. And because we’re like him, “we have within us the capacity to know Him.” God made us a kind after his kind so we would be able to come together with our kind and with him—to be together, to love one another. 

That’s what’s real. That’s your Father’s heart. You are chosen. You belong. God is your Father. You’re his beloved son. And he wants a relationship with you—deep, real, heartfelt, conversational.

Nearly eight billion people live right now on planet Earth. And God’s deepest emotions toward each of us are the same. Each of us is vitally important. He loves all of us outrageously. He knows the number of hairs on each of our heads (Matt. 10:30.)

There’s nothing God wants more than to be with you. To love you. And there’s no loving thing he won’t do to make that happen—to bring us into relationship with him.