Who God Is: The Holy Rescuer

The Bible teaches that there is one true God—holy, just, and overflowing with love—who made us for a relationship with himself. Yet from the Garden of Eden onward, humanity has turned away from God, choosing separtion over trust, and that rebellion has opened the door to brokenness, suffering, and death.

Our Real Problem: Sin, Not Just Suffering

The concept of “falling short” is not popular in our culture. Modern society urges people to celebrate themselves exactly as they are and to push away any sense of guilt or shame as unhealthy or judgmental.

This mindset often shows up inside the Church as well, where messages can drift toward constant affirmation: you are loved, you are enough, you should never feel bad about yourself. While God’s love is real and unshakeable, the Bible says our deepest problem is not low self-esteem, poor socialization, or what others have done to us; it is our ongoing choice to live for ourselves instead of for God.

​Sin means continually prioritizing our own desires over God’s will, ignoring his ways, and breaking the moral law he has written on our hearts. When we go against that God-given sense of right and wrong, it is natural to feel guilt, unease, and even shame—these are signals that something in us needs to be brought into the light and made new.

Jesus is the suffering Savior who stepped into our broken world to reconcile hurting people to God, carry our sins, and defeat death so that grief and loss are never the end of the story. God is in the middle of our pain. He is a Holy Spirit, a loving Father, and a crucified-and-risen Mediator who invites all to come to him. And this God Knows your suffering.