God winning us back

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3:1)

 The Bible is full of the expression of God’s relational heart toward us—as a Father, a husband, a friend—and it carries through from Genesis to Revelation.
 When in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve turn their backs on God and rebel against Him, we see immediately the tone is set for the rest of the ages, as God’s response is not ‘What have you done?’ but ‘Where are you?’ And the whole of the rest of the story is God winning us back, paying the price Himself, making a way for us to be with Him.
 The biblical emphasis is on a God who has revealed Himself: through nature, through the Scriptures, and ultimately through the living Word—the person of Jesus Christ.
 Jesus looks to His disciples and says to them that in knowing Him, they know the Father, and that knowing Him is to have eternal life. The self-revelation of God is a foundation point for Christian theology and the basis on which our security lies. It is one of the most profound truths of the Christian message, that whilst we may at times be in the dark about what God is doing, we are (praise God!) not in the dark about God.
 What makes this even more wonderful is that knowing Him is not simply a matter of abstract possibility, but of God’s own heart desire, —Tanya Walker [1]

 Union with Christ is that spiritual reality whereby we as believers are joined to our Lord such that what is true of him becomes true of us. —Bill Kynes

[1] Anchor Relationship and Union with God