Before creating the world, God freely chose to be united with us by becoming one of us. This decision was not forced or required but came purely from His love. God desires to be with us, and He wants us to be with Him.

God does not need anything outside Himself to be God. He is complete and perfect within His own Triune life. He did not create the world because He lacked something or needed humanity. No!  He created us for a relationship and chose to enter into a relationship with us and with creation. This shows that God’s connection to us comes from love and freedom, not necessity.

However, God’s freedom does not mean He can freely choose to stop loving us. God is love itself; if He stopped loving, He would no longer be who He is. From the very beginning, He chose to be “God with us,” rather than a God without us. This is revealed most clearly in Jesus.  In him, God became human to show us the depth of His love.

There is no other God than the One who has freely chosen to share His eternal life with us. Through Jesus, we see that God’s very nature is love — a love that gives and goes on giving for ever deeper relationships. Most importantly, Jesus reveals that God’s love is completely free, offered to us not out of need, but out of grace.