You re right babyboyblue, it is ALL about God and HIS will.... Now about that relationship, and I will try to hare with you HOW GOD SET IT UP iN ALL HIS CHILDREN. I had a Bible talk with my eldest daughter last night, and she is VERY serious to have the perfect relationship with God. My daughter and I do not agree on the same level, but we BOTH know where to look for this relationship.
First... A relationship means to be in relation with another person. Relate to another person. If there are two people that RELATE 100% to eachother, they are ONE soul/spirit/person. No person can relate to another without LOVE, or at least the same goal. But the relationship with God is SET OUT even before God established the world. God's perfect relationship with His Son was there even before the stars were in the sky. God can only have one type and level of relationchip, because God only has ONE LEVEL OF LOVE, shown by Jesus on the cross.
Now! Let us see what God says about this relationship he has with FEW PEOPLE on this earth. God says.... I LOVED you first.....I have chosen you..... So ANY person that are in this perfect love and relationship with God DID NOT CHOSE IT, or started the relationship, GOD did. And when did this relationship became as ONE person? When did this relationship came to the LEVEL OF GOD? No person can even start the relationship with God, and no person can grow in this relationship if God does not LET THE GROWTH HAPPEN.
The beginning is God, the middle is God, the end is God. How can any person think he has something to do with his relationship with God. What about the people that does not have a reltionship with God? Is it because God did not love them? If God is the one that loved first, why do they not love back, or are they loved? Can God love some person that does not love Him back? Can God choose a person without that person becoming what God chose him for?
God is powerful way beyond what we can imagine, and He is GOOD as Jesus said. Now if God had chosen me to be HIS one day, and HE SET out IDENTITIES/Charactoristics of ALL who HE chose, how can I be HIS if I do not fit those identities? I think my spelling is bad again, but I hope it comes over OK.
When we read the Bbile we get to SEE those charactoristics/identities. Jesuscame and SHOWN God to us. Jesus showed GOD IN THE FLESH! Jesus said if you had known my Father you would have known me. That is how ALIKE they are. They ARE ONE! Perfect in eachother, perfect in ONE! They live the same, they talk the same, and they are the same. And they love the same! PERFECTLY.
This is now what God said about the ones that LOVES HIM... They love God PERFECTLY and that is why they too ARE ONE WITH GOD AS JESUS IS ONE WITH GOD! If I am to be ONE with God, I would also have to live the same, talk the same and be the same. So many said Cobus you cannot be God. But is it me that loved God and chose to be God's child? Or was I chosen before the earth was made? Did God write my name in the book of life even before I existed? Then how could I have chosen God? If God chose me, and God loved me, and that choice of God made me part of GOD, who is the GOOD One here. ME? Nope God is good, only God is good.
If God now make me ONE with Him, and Jesus is ONE with Him, how ONE AM I WITH GOD? One as Jesus? Boy, if only there is a verse in the Bible where Jesus says that we are one with God as He is one with God.... Did Jesus say... I and the Father are ONE!... Yes he did... John 10:30.... Did Jesus say what God said?.... Yes He said expressingly.....The words I speak is not my own but hat of my Father's.... And did God say that we will be ONE with Him?..... YES HE DID... John 17....
Now for once in your life, people thinl how MASSIVE this is..... EVERY PERSON GOD LOVES, LOVE HIM BACK SO MUCH THAT HE IS ONE WITH GOD! LIKE JESUS IS ONE WITH GOD! EXACTLY LIKE JESUS!
I will ONLY show these few verses that confirms the PERFECT LOVE OF GOD IN ALL HIS CHILDREN....
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
If I do not keepeth His word, am I in GOD? NOPE! Can I keep His Word? Only if HE perfect HIS LOVE IN ME! Can I make God or ask God to make His love in me perfect? Can I ask God to chose me, as I am NOT chosen? Can I love God first? Can I stand here on earth and say THANK YOU GOD THAT I AM CHOSEN?
If I claim to be His child, should I not talk like His child, should I not live or do like His child, should I not BE HIS CHILD. Should I not be ONE with GOD? If I m not, not ONE with HIM, who am I then? Who's child am I? I have only ONE real experience with God.... There was a time that I did not care if He existed or not, NOW I CARE! Only that is what I have to say about God and His relationship. ONLY THAT! I CARE THAT GOD EXIST!
God's will, WILL be done in me! Amen!