Notes from Last Night's - God Wants to Visit With You

Lk.1:78,79 "Because of the tender mercy of our God, his light from on high has visited us"

This verse given regarding the birth of the Messiah is one that summarizes what God truly wants for every human being.  God literally wants to "visit" us.  "Visit" here is the same as used in James 1:27, meaning to inspect for the purpose and intent of relieving the affliction of another.  Literally with Jesus it is Jn.3:16.

But  WHY?  Why would God want to come and make His home with us, to come to us in our affliction and be with us, when it is we who have sinned against Him?

• Because God wants for us what He has wanted with man since creation, to live with, be part of man and to want man to be part of Him. To know and enjoy the same type of relationship with Him, that He knew with His Son - the oneness of God!
• With this intent, He has come to us to....
•  To give light   Psa.107:9-12  "For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things. Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God, and  spurned the counsel of the Most High. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help."
• It is not God's desire to leave us squandering in darkness, nor to leave us prisoners without providing for us a way to escape. He "visited" us that we may know light, and that we may see clearly the means to escape the pit we have fallen into.
• To LIVE WITHIN US  
• Jn.14:6,7 Jesus said to him, “I am  the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have  known my Father also.  From now on you do know him and  have seen him.” 
• Rom.8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have See Acts 16:7 the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
• To have His Kingdom Be Within Us!  
• Lk.17:220,21 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed, nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”