God loves you and created you to know and enjoy him. He desires the very best for you (and all people) both now and for eternity, that has always been his plan for you.

Jesus said: 'I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full' (John’s Gospel Chapter 10, verse 10)

Sadly, many see God as a sort of killjoy in the sky. He is depicted as an ogre who is against everything that is fun, and he fills his time by sitting in heaven looking for the slightest failure so that he can punish it.
Nothing could be further from the truth! The Bible shows God as the ideal of a loving father, who created us, who provides for us, who loves us and wants us to love him, who always desires our best. Jesus himself taught us to talk to God as 'Father'.

In fact, God loves us so much that he gave his Son, Jesus, to save us from death and give us eternal life.

'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life' (John’s Gospel Ch 3, v 16)

If this is what God is like, why do so few people know God as their loving heavenly Father?

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