God is
love
1 John
4: 16 NIV
The
last great frontier spiritually is the discovery that God is love. With the world oozing broken dreams and
shattered lives, it has the feel of mythology to assert the declaration of
Scripture that God is love. The scent of
Job’s ruin permeates every corner of our universe. And yet it is true that God is love. He is love on the battlefield, He is love in
the convalescent home, He is love in foster care and He is love at the divorce
court. Everywhere you look God is love
and this is the unbending rule of time and space. It may take faith to accept this and some of
the most intelligent and creative minds speaking today might scoff at it but
God is love. Put yourself in Abraham’s
place as he trudged up Mt. Moriah with his son Isaac beside him. The impossible dream of a true heir was dying
and it would be moments before he would raise his dagger above his son and make
him a blood sacrifice to God. It was
between life and death, between ruin and resurrection that God is love seemed such
a fable. In the twilight of faith before
the dawn of sight, we stumble in our acceptance of this. Yet God is love at the altar as well as the
joyous journey home. Abraham believed
that God was love before he had Isaac; when he brought him back to Sarah fully alive,
he knew he had been right. You too will one day
know it is the Bible is right. God is love. Until that time when you have become certain
of it, keep going by faith in what others have discovered along the way. God is love today…just as surely as He is
tomorrow.
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