I discovered something about God last night in our
Wednesday evening Bible Study time at church. We were talking
about the unsearchable riches of God that are mentioned in Ephesians 3
and our pastor commented that there were many things about God that he
did not understand, but one of the things he had the hardest time
understanding was the height, width and depth of God's great love.
I have always felt that love is a great risk in our
lives. We take a chance that the person we choose to love may not
love us always in return or may choose to remove their love from us
altogether. They may die and we will no longer have access to
their love. They may choose to put conditions on their love for
us.
It dawned on me last night that God took a very
great risk when He loved us enough to create us. He was risking
the very thing that happened when men chose to reject His love and start
loving themselves instead. He risked enough to give us a free will
to choose to love Him or hate Him. He risked enough to even give
His own Son to die for us if necessary. Of course we realize that
it did become necessary for Jesus Christ to come and die, because man
chose to give up the love that God wanted to lavish upon us all.
We turned to ourselves that love that He would put in our hearts for Him
and for others.
But to God the risk was worth it because of those
people who would choose to allow Him to come into their hearts and share
His love with others. He took the risk that we would choose to
give love and fellowship back to Him in praise and worship. To me
it is a profound thought that He was willing to risk it all, even if
only one person chose to accept His love.
We are living in a time when more people choose to
reject the love of God than accept it. We are living in a time
when people actually hate for others to even mention the name of God or
His wonderful son Jesus Christ. In turn they also hate His people.
This does not take God by surprise -- He knew this time in history would
come. We who love Him cannot become discouraged or angry about
these days in which we live. God is certainly not discouraged or
hateful about them. He knows what He is going to do and what the
end result will be. He is the King and will be triumphant over the
evil around us.
Look up! Your redemption is drawing near!
God bless you all, Carolyn