God gives us life. He gives breath to our lungs. He gives choice to love, … or not.
Our Father in heaven watches us go this way and that. He watches us go backwards and forward…
He waits, with a patience our tiny brains don’t come close to comprehend.
We forget that “He is friend that sticks closer than a brother.” (1)
“For God so loved the world that He gave, … ” provision.
Not just for some, but for all. The bad, the simple, and the forsaken too.
“For unto us a child is born – …” (2)
But who can see? In the whirlwind of life, the struggle to survive, the frantic motions forward? Who can see, the Provision prepared – until there is a moment when a desert storm
His Table prepared.
Who will come to My supper, who will turn to come in?
He waits with love. He patiently endures …
Do we turn to discover the richness of color and design and mysterious revelation in a Book that lays silent and distant and seemingly flat.
God is love, always and forever – but take off your shoes! He is holy. He is just. And His ways… far above …us.The bread has been broken, the cup is full …of forgiveness overflowing – our crimson stains washed white …as the purest of wool.
“What is love?” We all ask, as we trod this dusty earth?
God, Who IS love, puts lights of witness on our path. (Even cartoon figures who seem like ‘blockheads’ at best!) “A man called Jesus.” He is ‘what is love.’ He is the name above all names. Jesus is the name Who saves from above.
“What makes you think you know?”
The Bible tells me so: 1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is very patient and kind,
never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud,
5 never haughty or selfish or rude.
Love does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable or touchy.
It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
6 It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out.
7 If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost.
You will always believe in him,
always expect the best of him,
and always stand your ground in defending him. (NLT).
“Dear Jesus, this is not me. I am so sorry to confess. I am so far from ‘love’ at times,… will you take my mess. Empty me. Fill me with You. You are ‘love’, Lord Jesus. How desperately I need You!
Without You, I can do no thing…fill me Lord, that I can take a breath and sing:
“Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I LOVE Jesus,…because He first loved me. In Jesus name,
Amen.”
“Abide in Me, and I in you, As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:4,5).
(1) Proverbs 18:24
(2) Isaiah 9:6