God's Love

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     First  John 4:7-8 says, “ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”

     How far does love go in a person’s life?  How much will you tolerate abuse without saying, “Enough is enough?”   Some people are easy to love as they don’t do anything that is against  you in any way while others always seem to be aggravating you at every opportunity.  At the end of the day, we sometimes find those who are easy to love and th ose that are hard to love.

     With God, love seems to always be present and it has no boundaries.  That is, it doesn’t stop because I mess up here and there, and I do mess up.  As you read through the Old Testament, you find so often a very large number of people who fall by the sword.  Thousands are put to death and it sometimes seems gruesome just to read of those who messed up and were put to death.  They are there in the Old Testament to remind us and to teach us of God’s justice and to see the differences in our relationship with God Himself.  While we are here on this earth, living and breathing and going about our business as usual, God loves us in a way that we cannot comprehend.  His love is the personification of love.  As John said, “God is love.”  If you want to see just what love is, you just need to look at God. So, we have our lifetime to decide whether to accept God’s type of love or to refuse it.  Sad to say, many do and will refuse it and that is where God says, “Enough is enough….Depart from Me, I never knew you;”  God has many attributes and while love is one of them, so is justice and righteousness.  While we have ample opportunity to settle with God, many just don’t as their thought is, “God could never send anyone to eternal punishment, so all will end up in heaven.”    Not even John 3 :16 says that.   God does not want us to perish but to have everlasting life.  He is willing that all should be saved and present in heaven but the Great White Throne judgment says that many will not accept God’s type of love and in so refusing it, will be ushered in eternal separation from God and from heaven and all of its blessing.  God has already made the supreme sacrifice in the sending of His Son to die on the cross and thereby making a complete payment for all of our sin and then to make us ready for our home in heaven.  To refuse God’s terms is to say that He is not just and so we can come up with our own plan and say to the world, “I’ll see you heaven.” when there is no hope of them being there as they refused God’s plan and sought their own method.  Praise God today for His plan of salvation and especially for His love.  God’s final call is coming soon.