GOD IS LOVE

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            Once a man built a weather vane.  He then set it up on top of his barn in full sight of any and all traveled the well worn road that weaved through his farm.

            Then underneath the weather vane he placed a plaque that read, “God is love.”

           

His neighbors and even a few strangers who stopped by to comment asked, “Why did you put ‘God is love’ beneath your weather vane.

           

“Ah, now” the farmer would always reply,” I just wanted to emphasize that God is love no matter which way the wind blows.”

            How did the scripture go again?  “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” (1 John 4:7-8)

            Whittier put it this way:

       I see the wrong that round me lies,

       I feel the guilt within;

       I hear with groan and travail-cries,

  The world confess it’s sin.

  Yet in the maddening maze of things,

 

  And tossed by storm and flood,

  To one fixed trust my spirit slings;   I know that God is good!

I know not where His islands lift

Their fronded palms in air.

I only know I cannot drift

Beyond His love and care.

God is love.  I’ve said it by story, by Scripture and by poem.  And I’ve chosen this subject for one specific reason.

Some people just don’t believe it.

They believe in God but they just don’t believe He is good.

They’ve seen the good die and the bad prosper.

They’ve seen the strong devour the weak.

They’ve seen too much suffering and pain and they cry out into the night, “If God is love, then why must there be so much that is unlovely?”

Well, needless to say, I’m not going to solve the paradox of problem and pain all in one Sabbath August morning.

But I am going to write to the paradox and categorically state that I personally believe in a loving God.

I believe He knows what He is doing and He does nothing without reason.

I believe that what confuses me as a child of God is understood with infinite wisdom by my eternal heavenly Father.

I believe these things not with a blind faith that will not ask questions but with a strong faith that admits I will never have all the answers.

Think on this, if you will.

How could God teach kindness without suffering to be relieved?

How could He teach man courage without something to overcome?

How could he teach man true love unless man were tempted to hate?

How could He teach man endurance if there were no burdens to bear?

            A Chinese proverb puts it this way, “A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

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Below is a quote from Wyrick’s Writings blog entitled ANGER VS. PATIENCE

“After the old man had departed, God called out to Abraham and asked where the stranger was. Abraham replied, “I sent him on his way because he did not worship you.”

God answered “I have suffered him all his eighty years although he dishonors me. Could you not endure for just one night?”

God suffers us, endures us! And forgives us and loves us and sets such a perfect example for us.”

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM THE SERIES  “A HEAVENLY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM” … (1st in series) (on this Wyrick’s Writing blog)

 “I have always been intrigued by a question God put to Adam, “Where are you?” Why did He ask that? What is the meaning behind this? It wasn’t a geographical question, for certainly God knew the answer to that one.

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BELOW IS A QUOTE FROM A NEW SERIES “Depression…the Alien Within”  on this Wyrick’s Writings …each week

”Sometimes the best thing do, if depression descends on you, is for a little while to try to wipe clean the slate of your worried mind.  To give such thoughts some muted silence.  Seek an emotional whiteout.  Just let the soft breeze of nothingness blow for a while.  And then, read John 14:27 and hear Jesus saying, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” 

 

“Do you enjoy visiting friends? More than likely you’re thinking, Preacher, of course, I do.
Now let me ask the other side of the coin - Do you enjoy visiting enemies? No?

 

Well, I know you must enjoy visiting at least one enemy because, like myself, you probably visit this one quite often. Unfortunately, we all …visit this enemy…whose name is anger.

Some visit anger seldom . Some on a regular basis. And during those visits, some spew and others stew.”

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