God loves you and created you to know Him personally. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16

God’s Plan: “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3

Man is sinful and separated from God, so we cannot know Him personally or experience His love. “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Romans 3:23   “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

Jesus Christ is God’s ONLY provision for man’s sin.  Through Him alone you can know God personally and experience God’s love.  He died in our place:  “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”  Romans 5:8  

He is the only way to God:  “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”          John 14:6

You must individually repent and receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then you can know God personally and experience His love.  You must receive Christ: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12   “The Lord is not slow about His promise… not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”  2 Peter 3:9 

We receive Christ through faith: “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.”     Ephesians 2:8