God of The Old Testament

Have you ever wondered about the seemingly cruel nature of the relationship between God and man in the Old Testament? We may wonder if our forefathers deserved the way God treated them in the Old Testament.

Reality is that even today we deserve to be treated that way. We deserve to be sent into Egypt, we deserve to be smote, we even deserve to be turned into pillars of salt for looking back onto our old ways, because we sin all the time. Even when we think we are not sinning there are things we don't do, things that we are suppose to do (those are called sins of omittance).  

We do not deserve to be sons of God, we do not deserve to be the bride of Christ, we do not deserve to be friends of God - but Jesus does. We inherit not only His nature when we are born again, but above all, we inherit His sinless reputation. We inherit His right standing with our Father. Jesus is the "rose-colored spectacles" through which God see us. 

God looks at Jesus, and loves us!

John 3:17 (AMP)

17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.