God’s Love
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Psalm 107:1
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble of hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Romans 8:35
The love of God is a tricky thing. It shouldn’t be. It is the only thing that is pure and endless. Perhaps I misspoke. It isn’t the love of God that is tricky. It is our understanding of the love of God. God never changes. Therefore if I know and believe that He loves me on Tuesday, I should know and believe it on Saturday as well. No, God’s love is not fickle or tricky but we are. I believe that most of us suffer from the misconception that we will always feel God’s love in the exact same way, every hour, every day. That makes an odd sense given the fact that God never changes but we do change. Our lives changes, our circumstances change and then our perception of God’s love and the way we feel it, changes too.
The other day my husband and I watched a movie about people meeting a man who was supposed to be an incarnation of Jesus. A quick aside, if movie makers want to portray Jesus I wish they would remember that along with being loving, merciful and kind he was also strong, determined and powerful. Anyway, each of them came to believe that he was Jesus based on the things he knew about them and the fact that he loved them anyway.
Most of them questioned him though, about his whereabouts at the worst points of their lives. In each case he showed them exactly where he was. He showed them why in some cases, they’d made a right choice without even realizing it. He showed them how his presence saw them through. He reminded them of his provision for them even when they had no interest in him. Through it all God’s love for His people had not changed but one by one each person told how rejected and betrayed they felt. Most of us can relate to that.
We cry out, pray, beg God and it seems as if He has turned a deaf ear. Most of us do not have an encounter with a flesh and blood Jesus who tells us why things happened the way they happened. What we do have is the Word. We have the actions and behaviors of Jesus. We have the promises of God.
Our God is good and His love does endure. We can’t see it all now. Paul says that we see things poorly now that will be clear to us later. (1Corinthians 13:12) For now we have to walk by faith and not by sight by belief and not feelings. God is for us and from Him we cannot be separated.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble of hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Romans 8:35
The love of God is a tricky thing. It shouldn’t be. It is the only thing that is pure and endless. Perhaps I misspoke. It isn’t the love of God that is tricky. It is our understanding of the love of God. God never changes. Therefore if I know and believe that He loves me on Tuesday, I should know and believe it on Saturday as well. No, God’s love is not fickle or tricky but we are. I believe that most of us suffer from the misconception that we will always feel God’s love in the exact same way, every hour, every day. That makes an odd sense given the fact that God never changes but we do change. Our lives changes, our circumstances change and then our perception of God’s love and the way we feel it, changes too.
The other day my husband and I watched a movie about people meeting a man who was supposed to be an incarnation of Jesus. A quick aside, if movie makers want to portray Jesus I wish they would remember that along with being loving, merciful and kind he was also strong, determined and powerful. Anyway, each of them came to believe that he was Jesus based on the things he knew about them and the fact that he loved them anyway.
Most of them questioned him though, about his whereabouts at the worst points of their lives. In each case he showed them exactly where he was. He showed them why in some cases, they’d made a right choice without even realizing it. He showed them how his presence saw them through. He reminded them of his provision for them even when they had no interest in him. Through it all God’s love for His people had not changed but one by one each person told how rejected and betrayed they felt. Most of us can relate to that.
We cry out, pray, beg God and it seems as if He has turned a deaf ear. Most of us do not have an encounter with a flesh and blood Jesus who tells us why things happened the way they happened. What we do have is the Word. We have the actions and behaviors of Jesus. We have the promises of God.
Our God is good and His love does endure. We can’t see it all now. Paul says that we see things poorly now that will be clear to us later. (1Corinthians 13:12) For now we have to walk by faith and not by sight by belief and not feelings. God is for us and from Him we cannot be separated.
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