When God makes promises through His messengers He’s telling us more than the words being spoken.

For example, here’s what God told His people through Ezekiel:

And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. Ezek 11:19

A cynical and suspicious person might here conclude that God’s main concern is to get people to follow His rules. But that would be so far missing His intention.

Another example is the word God spoke through the prophet Jeremiah:

I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul. Jer 32:40, 41

One could draw the inference that God wants people to fear Him so much that they’ll never fall away from Him.

But God is tipping His hand by these promises. Seeing that the natural man’s heart had become jagged and rock hard. That it was suited more to the conditions of earth - the ridged following of rules and principles, the harsh exacting of law and judgment.

He’s telling His children that He will alter the nature of their inner life to make them capable of hosting His presence - like they once were.

God, the Everlasting Father, is revealing the deepest secrets of His heart. He’s expressing that doing us good is a supreme joy and delight to Him. That making us capable of His pleasure is among His chief desires.

There is a tenderness and compassion within God so keen and so vast, our language collapses in its effort to describe it.

Our Heavenly Father appeals, compelling the prophets to swear to us in His Name that: I will not turn away from doing good to them.
And crying out like a desperate man, He asserts the intensity and measure of His commitment . . . with all my heart and all my soul.

God ultimately could cry no louder, than Jesus.
Could love no deeper, than Jesus.
The reaches of His mercy could extend no further, than Jesus.
His compassion withheld nothing - even unto Jesus.
After having emptied the riches and treasures of eternity to restore us, God finally wrung out His own heart. He could spend no more, than Jesus.

All His designs are to bring us back to being true humans. Sons, daughters - as at the first.

See, what manner of love the Father has lavished upon us? To actually spare nothing to make us capable of knowing, loving and intimately sharing life with Him.

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things.

Let’s no longer see our Heavenly Father the same as before. He has tipped His hand. He’s has disclosed secrets from His own heart.