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What kind of relationship does God actually want to have with us?

The Bible uses many images to describe how God relates to us, as a father, a friend, a spouse, and a king.

Today, Tim Keller takes a closer look at one of these dimensions of God and how it helps us see the depths of his grace and love king. Today, Tim Keller takes a closer look at one of these dimensions of God, and how it helps us see the depths of his grace and love more clearly.

Let me read you, Psalm 103. Just the middle part, really, the introduction, which is verses 1 to 2,

and that middle section 8 to 18. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all my inmost being,

praise His Holy Name. Praise the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse,

nor will he harbor his anger forever. He does not treat us as our sins deserve, or repay us according to our

iniquities, for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear

him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children,

so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.

For he knows how we are formed.

He remembers that we are dust.

As for man, his days are like grass.

He flourishes like a flower of the field,

the wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place

remembers it no more. But from everlasting to everlasting, the Lord's love is with those who fear him,

and his righteousness with their children's children, with those who keep his covenant,

and remember to obey his precepts.

This is God's word.

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