Looking into the face of love...

"Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being." -Genesis 2:7

Can you imagine opening your eyes to see the face of perfect love staring back at you?

They had it all, an unconditional, perfect love and a relationship where God walked beside them. Yet, they wanted more, the one thing they couldn't have. Through trying to be like God, this perfect relationship was ruined.

"So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life." - Genesis 3:23

The thing that we don't see here is how God must have felt.
Sorrow.
Anguish.
Longing.
All this as He watched man, created in His own image, the same man he formed with His hands and gave the breath of life; walk away. And all he could do was just watch them leaving, with a tear in His eye.

But He had a plan.

"In the beginning was the Word.
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning."

He chose to sacrifice His one and only Son to create atonement for our sins, to make things right again.

And as He prepared to go to the cross, to die for us all, he said,
"I will not leave you as orphans, I am coming to you." -John 14:18

These were the words of a father, a father who saw His children leaving;
and now, He is bringing them back.