I love that God revealed from the beginning to the end in the Bible. A time line of earth’s history. God cares about His people, He wants them to know Him. Closeness and intimacy has always been His greatest desire! Men in their fallen, fearful, arrogant, proud and rebellious state, resist God and turn to their own way for fulfilment and getting their needs met, but they don’t realise only the PURE LIVING WATER can satisfy the soul.God is not out to condemn you, take away what you care about, or put restricting laws or burdens on you. You are already bound! You are already restricted!
Being BIRTHED into His kingdom by the true revelation of His love for you, and being made TRULY ALIVE by His power causes men to see for the first time, just like Neo in the Matrix.
Do you want to live in a dream world, a world that just keeps you distracted and deceived enough to make you think this is LIFE? When you are AWOKEN by a very real God, who brought everything into existence, including your life, the scales fall off your eyes and you don’t just begin to see things differently - that’s just a by-product. You ARE different. NEW. Clean. The difference is so extreme that it is likened to being dead and then made ALIVE. And when you are alive to God, which means you are consciously aware of His presence and person, at a genuinely interactive level, you will/can never be the same.
God loves you. He is not angry or vengeful toward you, he sent His Son (God born in human flesh) to die for you??? Does that sound like ILL WILL? God knows that you are lost without Him. You were made to be together. Don’t listen to false religions that will tell you that you can get to/ become God some other way!
Jesus Christ is the DOOR - no one comes to the Father except by Him. He died for your sin - you fall WAY short of the holiness and majesty of God, and sin every day by going your own way in the face of Truth.
If a man repents of his own wicked ways, and humbles himself and recognises that Jesus who KNEW NO SIN died for you so that you could be saved and brought back into relationship with God, by trusting in His sacrifice to pay for your sin - not relying on your OWN self righteousness which is unable to meet the required standard - you will be encountered by God. I did, 17 years ago. I was addicted, broken, hurting, self conscious, lost and afraid, but God saved me by a revelation of His love for me. My eyes were made OPEN, and I was filled with newness. I was made alive to God. And all these years later I must say, I have dug, and I have sought after this God that revealed Himself to me, and I have found TREASURE like I never thought possible. I could write 50 books about what has happened in my life due to meeting my Maker. I have found what I was looking for. And every well of promised nourishment that the world has to offer, is but an illusion, so fresh to the taste just like the real thing when you first find it - because you are THIRSTY! But as you continue to drink this water that promised so much, it dries up and no longer quenches your thirst. JESUS CHRIST is the only TRUE LIVING WATER. He said, in His own words “the water I give, when you drink it, YOU WILL NEVER THIRST AGAIN.” We need water to survive. That’s why the bible days Jesus didn’t come into the world to condemn the world, but to save it. And that “For God SO LOVED the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that WHOEVER believes on Him, will not PERISH but have EVERLASTING LIFE.” (the result of living water). God says you are perishing. You try your hardest to survive in the false waters that are only a trick to keep you from the true, and the end is death, because just like in the desert, without water you die. This is the context that God declares you are perishing. But Jesus came with the true living water, so that “you may not perish, but in drinking, and continuing to drink of His true water (His words) you WILL NOT PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE.” It’s a promise. God CANNOT lie. Bless you.