It's a Real Person, a Real Event, a Real Love

I have been dreaming up God's feelings and His love for me.

His love is real, not something that I have to dream up  or to conjure up in my feelings.

Just like the wind caressing our faces is real, just like the warmth of the Sun is real, so too the love of God is real, shed abroad in our hearts.

This is not the figment of our imaginations, but the firm promise made real in all that Jesus did at the Cross.

We do not picture for ourselves Jesus.

He is not a fictional character, but a Real Person:

"Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life." (Hebrews 7: 16)

And

"For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 7: 17)

Jesus, our Real High Priest, died and rose again, in a Real Event:

"Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead." (Acts 10: 41)

and

"25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, 26But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: 27To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen." (Romans 16: 25-27)

and

"For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty." (2 Peter 1: 16)

This Real Person in a Real Event demonstrated a Real Love:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3: 16)

and

"16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3:16-19)

We cannot begin to understand how much God our Father loves us, and what His Son did for us.

We should never stop learning more about this love:

"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen." (2 Peter 3: 18)

and of course:

"9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. " (1 John 4: 9-10)

Not an idea, or a concept, or a figment of our imagination: Jesus is a Real Person, who endured a Real Event to show us His Real Love!