On September 22, 2026, I asked Chat GPT to tell me God’s number one passion based on Scripture. Here is the response I received.
If I had to identify one thing Scripture most consistently portrays Yahweh as passionately pursuing, I would put it this way:
Yahweh has a passion for restoring His creation to Himself—because He loves it.
Or even more simply: His great passion is people—His creation reconciled, healed, made righteous, and brought into communion with Him. That theme runs from Genesis to Revelation.
The clearest one-word answer: Love
Yeshua says:
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son…” — John 3:16
Notice the object of that love: the world (kosmos), not merely those who already believe. The giving of the Son reveals what is in the Father’s heart. John makes the point even stronger:
“God is love.” — 1 John 4:8
Scripture does not merely say Yahweh has love. It says He is love. His holiness, justice, judgment, mercy, discipline, and salvation therefore cannot finally be separated from who He is.
What does that love passionately seek?
Paul gives us an extraordinary answer:
“God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” — 2 Corinthians 5:19
That word reconciling is important. Yahweh is not portrayed merely as rescuing people from Himself. He is acting in Yeshua to bring estranged creation back to Himself. Colossians 1:19–20 broadens the picture still further: through the blood of Yeshua’s cross, Yahweh purposes to “reconcile all things to Himself,” whether things on earth or things in heaven. So we have:
Love → seeks the lost → gives the Son → judges and corrects evil → reconciles → restores.
Yeshua tells us what makes heaven rejoice
Luke 15 may be one of the best places in Scripture to discover what Yahweh is passionate about. A shepherd loses one sheep. He goes after it “until he finds it.” A woman loses one coin. She searches carefully “until she finds it.” A father loses a son. When the son appears on the horizon, the father runs to him. And each story ends in joy. That tells us something profound about Yahweh’s heart. The emphasis isn’t merely, “The lost deserve consequences.” The emphasis: “I want My lost one back.”
Yeshua states His own mission similarly:
“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” — Luke 19:10
Not merely to offer searching. He came to seek and to save.
Yahweh even tells us what He does NOT enjoy
Ezekiel gives us a remarkable window into Yahweh’s heart:
“I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.” — Ezekiel 33:11
What gives Yahweh pleasure isn’t destruction for destruction’s sake. His desire is: Turn. Live. Come home. Paul expresses something similar when he says Yahweh “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4). And then comes this amazing passage: verse you and I have discussed before:
“We have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers. Prescribe and teach these things.” — 1 Timothy 4:10–11
Acts 3:21 may give the passion its destination
Peter speaks of:
“the restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.”
That is a remarkably large horizon. The biblical story begins with creation belonging to Yahweh, passes through humanity’s alienation and death, and moves toward reconciliation and restoration. And look where Revelation finally takes us. Yahweh declares:
“Behold, I am making all things new.” — Revelation 21:5
Not merely, “I am making some new things.” Rather, “I am making all things new.”
So what is Yahweh’s great passion?
If we pull those passages together, I think the biblical answer can be expressed in one sentence:
Yahweh’s passion is His love-driven determination to seek, save, reconcile, heal, and ultimately restore His creation to Himself through Yeshua.
That also helps explain why judgment and restoration need not be opposites. A physician cuts because he wants healing. A refiner burns away dross because he wants pure gold. A father disciplines because he loves his child. A shepherd pursues because he wants his sheep home.
Perhaps the simplest picture is the father of Luke 15. What does Yahweh want? His children home. And when the lost one comes home, the Father doesn’t reluctantly tolerate him.
He runs. He embraces. He celebrates.
Brother Roger
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