You are God’s creation. Furthermore, he wants you to know him now and share all of eternity with him because he loves you so deeply. He stated, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” Jesus, who is God in human form, came to earth so that everyone of us could have a personal relationship with and understanding of God. Jesus can give our lives kindness, truth, and direction. Because of our sin, we experience this distance and alienation from God. “All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way,” the Bible says. Between ourselves and God, there is a chasm, a separation. The arrows represent our attempts to approach God through acts of kindness, religious observance, trying to live moral lives, etc. The issue is that none of these admirable attempts truly atone for or erase our wrongdoing. God is aware of our sin, which keeps God and us apart. Furthermore, according to the Bible, sin carries a death sentence. We would be cut off from God for all eternity.
