I believe that we could list may things we feel that God wants ...but, first consider that God can get anything He wants, so is that really qualified as wanting. If someone has the power and ability to get whatever they want and they don't have it ...then they either don't have an intense enough desire for it, or it is more complex than what we can comprehend.
(I can barely comprehend what I just said, but I know it is significant ...and if it is also significant to you, you can also comprehend it if you have the desire to.)
I believe the latter is true ...that it is more complex than what we can comprehend most of the time. It's like the simple principle in the saying, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Well, you say, wasn't I talking about God ...where that doesn't need to hold true. God could have His cake and eat it too. Yet, in looking at it that way, we are only looking at one aspect of God. If we speak of God's unchanging character, we couldn't say that God is loving and He is unloving.
I know there are times this feeling exists, where we doubt God's love for us or for another. But, since God is love ...then I should trust Him to define it. I think that love was adequately defined through His Son, Jesus.
When we say God loves us, then perhaps we question why He allows bad things to happen. We quickly conclude that a loving God would not permit such things, but since we in fact experience these such things ...then where is the breakdown?
I will break it down to the fact that love entails choice, and in loving us, God gives us the opportunity to experience it also. Love would mean nothing to us, if we couldn't experience a portion of it. And love isn't love, unless it incorporates the ability to participate in it ...by choice.
For love to endure, something else is necessary ...and that something includes the ability to carry it out, and it requires righteousness.
God is absolutely good and loving. Absolute good aims to conceive us, convince us, and convert us ...never to confuse us. Absolute evil aims to distract us, deceive us, and destroy all good. So, for good to exist ...the means of its destruction must be separated, or placed out of harm's way. And this is where righteousness comes in ...as it is done right and fair. The choice, or chance is given to all.
What is that choice? Well, it's the choice to be able to choose to accept God's way, or not to choose God's way. And the righteousness of God can be explained by Him making that to be a clear choice. God does not want to distract, deceive, or destroy us. He sent His Son, Jesus, to save us. Jesus made that clear. If we choose God's way ...He wants us to be clear on who He is and what His way is, as they are one in the same. And if we reject God's way, then he wants it to be clearly His way we are rejecting ...not rejecting Him for who He is not.
So, that's what I believe God wants the most ...for us to know Him for who He is.
And therefore, I believe what Satan would want most ...is for us to not see God for who He is.
I believe the latter is true ...that it is more complex than what we can comprehend most of the time. It's like the simple principle in the saying, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
Well, you say, wasn't I talking about God ...where that doesn't need to hold true. God could have His cake and eat it too. Yet, in looking at it that way, we are only looking at one aspect of God. If we speak of God's unchanging character, we couldn't say that God is loving and He is unloving.
I know there are times this feeling exists, where we doubt God's love for us or for another. But, since God is love ...then I should trust Him to define it. I think that love was adequately defined through His Son, Jesus.
When we say God loves us, then perhaps we question why He allows bad things to happen. We quickly conclude that a loving God would not permit such things, but since we in fact experience these such things ...then where is the breakdown?
I will break it down to the fact that love entails choice, and in loving us, God gives us the opportunity to experience it also. Love would mean nothing to us, if we couldn't experience a portion of it. And love isn't love, unless it incorporates the ability to participate in it ...by choice.
For love to endure, something else is necessary ...and that something includes the ability to carry it out, and it requires righteousness.
God is absolutely good and loving. Absolute good aims to conceive us, convince us, and convert us ...never to confuse us. Absolute evil aims to distract us, deceive us, and destroy all good. So, for good to exist ...the means of its destruction must be separated, or placed out of harm's way. And this is where righteousness comes in ...as it is done right and fair. The choice, or chance is given to all.
What is that choice? Well, it's the choice to be able to choose to accept God's way, or not to choose God's way. And the righteousness of God can be explained by Him making that to be a clear choice. God does not want to distract, deceive, or destroy us. He sent His Son, Jesus, to save us. Jesus made that clear. If we choose God's way ...He wants us to be clear on who He is and what His way is, as they are one in the same. And if we reject God's way, then he wants it to be clearly His way we are rejecting ...not rejecting Him for who He is not.
So, that's what I believe God wants the most ...for us to know Him for who He is.
And therefore, I believe what Satan would want most ...is for us to not see God for who He is.
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