Knowing the Heart of God

To know the heart of God is the heart cry of true believers.

The key to knowing the heart of God is to know what God cares about and to care about what He cares about.

From scripture we know that Jesus is the express image of God His father, He came to shoe us what His Father was like and nobody, before Christ, knew or understood God. Therefore, to know the heart of God we must see Him through the actions of Jesus. That means that we cannot know the heart of God by reading what anybody else says about Him if it does not line up with the picture that Jesus paints Him to be. If what we believe about God does not line up with what Jesus was or did then it is safe to conclude that we need to change out thinking.

From observing Jesus, I am fully persuaded that God is a God of love and the priority object of His love is PEOPLE. I see in the life of Christ that  God’s heart is burning with an intense,  passionate love for people...ALL PEOPLE, saint and sinner alike!

You may say that you agree that God loves those who are His own...but He does not love sinners. Consider this from the life of Jesus. He spent His life among sinners, He identified with them, socialized with them, healed them, taught them, recruited them to be His disciples, and ultimately, He died for them. The woman at the well, Zacceus, the woman caught in adultery, Simon the Zealot, the man born blind, etc. etc..

By following the history of humanity we see the following;

    God created people.
    People rejected God.
    God established the law to show people that it was impossible to live up to His standards in and of their own strength and ability.
    God Redeemed, God so loved the people of the world He, through His Son Jesus, put a redemptive plan in place to redeem people.

Why did God create people if it was not out of an intense love for people?

Why, after being rejected, did God continue to walk with humanity, continue to reveal Himself, and even go to extreme lengths...the very death of His only Son...to enable us to come back into relationship with Him?

Because of His intense passionate love for people. The most important thing to God is PEOPLE, ALL PEOPLE.

So the answer to knowing that we know in our knower that we know the heart  of God is that we LOVE PEOPLE, ALL PEOPLE!

If we found out what God cares about, yet refuse to care about what He cares about, no matter what else we care about we will never know the heart of God.