"The Joy of Being Loved"

"Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: let such as love Thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified." (Psalms 40:16) Understandably, there is nothing better than knowing that God loves you; after all, He does control everything, and "if God be for us, then who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31). It pretty much comes down to those final points: God's in control and He loves me! If we truly do believe this, then obviously we should be seeking as much as we can, to be as close as we can, to the One who loves us; especially since we have come to understand His great salvation for us. I had shared something on Sunday which I knew was going to be a touchy topic to try and explain, but non the less, I felt God was speaking it into my heart, therefore it needed to be put out there. The topic was based upon Genesis 3:8, and it had to do with God's timing in walking in the garden, which was "the cool of the day". It might be easy to misread what that means, but we must understand that God is All Knowing, and He came unto Adam and Eve knowing full well what they had done, yet He came unto them in the cool of the day; verses the night, as to startle them with His anger; or in the heat of the day, as to intensify His rage towards them. He came unto them as a friend and as their Creator that loved them, knowing already that they had fallen, He came not to judge them, for there sin had judged them already. His very first question tells it all, as He called out unto Adam, saying, "Where art thou?"; not needing to know where Adam was hiding, nor even needing to know Adam's condition, because He already knew that they dealing with the shame of what they had done; but it was a question specifically meant for Adam's heart towards God's heart, as in, Where are you in relation to Me? Presently, Adam was afraid, which was an emotion never felt before when it came to his relationship with the One who created him; he was ashamed and afraid, not quite knowing what he should do, except to hid himself from the One that loved him. And yet, the answer that Adam gave to God as to where he was, dealt with the symptom of what he had done, but did not bring up the sin; God had to bring that up to Adam Himself, in saying, "Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, wherefore I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?" God needs us to acknowledge what we have done, not how we feel; He wants to deal with the sin, because after the sin is dealt with, the feelings will take care of themselves... "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." (Romans 8:32-34)