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The Old Testament is the story of God reaching out in love to a rebellious people. Why is this significant?
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It is significant because all of mankind has fallen from grace and we are not capable of going back to it. God’s love made it possible for us to be reconciled with Him. It is revealed in the Old Testament how God reached out each time people walked away from Him.
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This is significant because the entire Bible shows us that God loved His people and continues to love His people no matter what we might do to mess up. His love is unconditional and constant.
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History has a way of repeating itself. As the peoples in the Biblical eras rebelled against God and His prophets. So do we, today, rebel and try to make it through on our own. Worshiping idols, money, power, self worth…
God’s unwavering love is evident, if we study the Scripture, and turn our hearts to Him. -
It is the highly detailed account of the steadfast love of the Lord, summed up in 1 John 4:10 (NIV)
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”The Old Testament gives lots of skin and bones to this incredible truth.
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Humankind’s greatest but unrealized need is to know that we need a Savior. So much behavior is rooted in guilt because God built conscience in each of us, and when that conscience has been violated, guilt results. Unfortunately, our separation from God blinds us to our need for forgiveness and reconciliation, so we try to ignore both our conscience and God with a myriad of evasive maneuvers that hide us from God and our own selves. Knowing that God truly loves us, wants to remove our guilt, and restore His relationship with us is the only message we need but always, in our rebellion, reject.