God, the ultimate reality of the universe, exists in perfect relationship – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is so “into” relationship that He created you in His image, male and female, to be able to enjoy Him and others. You were made for love – to love God and one another. As the Father longs after us, so we, too, long for deeply satisfying, harmonious relationships with Him and our fellow image-bearers. True Life is found only in dependent connectedness to the Heavenly Father – being at Home in His loving Embrace.

 

The Father Tells Us

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Acts 17:26-28

Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
I Corinthians 8:6

“And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.”
II Corinthians 6:18

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Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.