Tuesday, August 07, 2007

God’s Love Is Fair...

I’m not sure who you are out there feeling unloved and forgotten. It may even seem like God isn’t looking your way. I’m writing to let you know that there are times when God feels or appears to be so far away. But remember, distance doesn’t change a fact. Distance may alter a feeling, but never a reality. That fact is that God will always and continually does love you. Whether He seems close or far away, this reality and truth never changes. It could be that He loves you so much He is giving you room to grow. Every child who is coming of age needs room to fail and make blunders. Parents purposefully stand by (ready at any moment to intervene) to see how their children handle new situations. New situations call for new responses. God cannot respond the same way He did for you before, you’re in a new and different situation. And based on how you handle the situation, He as any parent would, determines whether or not to treat you with greater maturity and responsibility or to keep you in a childhood stage. When God does things for you the same way all the time, you are not growing. God giving you space is an act of love my friend, not abandonment.

Likewise, sometimes you have no control over where (as in location); people are in your life. But that doesn’t change the fact that you love them. Love is not a feeling. It is both a noun and a verb. It is an object, a state of being, an essence; it cannot be turned on or turned off, it always exists. Love also serves as an action, a way of demonstrating itself to others. God had so much love (noun) for us, that he gave (verb) his only son for us. Romans 5:8 states, “…God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners (NLT).” What I’m trying to say my friend is that God not only loves you, but He will demonstrate it to you as well.

Let me leave you with this small demonstration of God’s love. The other day I needed to find the extra keys I had for my car. The same day I was cleaning out my trunk, I removed a jacket that had remained in my car for months. When I was hanging it up, I checked the pockets, and there were my extra keys. I never would have looked in the trunk, in my coat pocket. This small act of love, I felt was God’s way of demonstrating that His ever so personal love for me. God’s love is fair. Don’t you give up on His love! It is the real deal Holyfield. You may have been hurt by other’s love, but God’s love is fair and it never fails. Be encouraged today, he sent me to answer your question you asked in Him in prayer. Yes, He does still love you. Regardless of where you are.

Peace & God Bless!