Greetings Dear Reader,
One of the things I often hear is what a loving God would or
would not do. We put our own standards
on God and decide how he will behave based on those standards. Putting God in this box presumes so much.
We must presume that God’s standards are equal to ours. We also presume that we have the same level of
knowledge of all the things involved in how God is acting. We assume that his ways are our ways when he
has clearly said that they are not. “’For
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the
Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.’”
God loves us. He
declares this as well. We cannot
manipulate his standards into aligning with ours. We too often blame him for the consequences
of our own actions. We want him to align
the world to what our vision of right and wrong is.
We do not have God’s love figured out. We know it is there, unconditional, and
eternal. How it works out juxtaposed to
the problem of evil and the tragedies in human lives is not always clear. That does not give us leave to define things
for him. We do not have it figured out.
I must have faith that God loves me. I cannot pigeonhole the character of God and
the demand that he express his love by my standards. I have done this in the past with people and
it just does not work. I cannot imagine
it working with someone so far beyond my comprehension.
God loves me. I have
not figured out how that works in every area my life but I know it does. Once again I come back to the fact that I
must follow in faith and attempt to love others whilst I work out God’s love
for me.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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