As I thought, I’m going to brown gucci handbags end this series with this third commentary on the subject of God’s love. We say that brown gucci handbags God is love, but then we live our lives as though He spent His fortune on everyone else. While we have brown gucci handbags separated ourselves from God, my view of God is that brown gucci handbags the divide is never complete. Never! Regardless of how dimly we may see His love, and regardless of how defective our response is to that love, there’s still a brown gucci handbags thread that holds us, and will never let us go. Read Romans eight again. The church has so marginalized the power of God’s love and brown gucci handbags made concepts such as the Atonement, a mechanical, transactional, legal, and brown gucci handbags juridical event rather than a personal, relational, and love action.
The chief causative agency in the world is not POWER- but LOVE!
God will not ultimately be defeated. I simply cannot see the One who brown gucci handbags created me as abandoning me, allowing my free will to be brown gucci handbags greater than His will, or birthing me into a no win situation. What god would do that? And why would He do that? God’s not going to win my love by coercion, but as a result of His competence in how He designed and created me (we are talking God here, right?). How does love work? Do we really know? What claims does love make? And, what reach (and power) does love have brown gucci handbags towards those who have never experienced genuine, godly love?
It was God’s purpose that we would be sons and daughters- not slaves!
God is brown gucci handbags omnipresent. He is everywhere in all things, before Jesus and after Jesus, in the brown gucci handbags most remote mountains, and barely inhabitable wastelands of the North and brown gucci handbags South poles. Where God is love is! And, God is EVERYWHERE! Those who have experienced genuine love, and practiced it (where civilization is not known), but not associated it brown gucci handbags with the name of Jesus, having never heard that name, still have brown gucci handbags experienced God. And where they have responded to that love with their love, who brown gucci handbags are we to say or state what will become of their souls? What gives us such a right to judge those hearts?
In John 13:1 we find an interesting statement that’s too easily overlooked. Jesus loved them to the END! He’s the picture of God, who also loves us to the END, and brown gucci handbags that end is not until the complete this physical cycle on earth. The phrase is brown gucci handbags “eis telos” which means to brown gucci handbags full completion, totally fulfilled, without failure. It doesn’t mean just on the part of one party, but both.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, (1834 – 1892) was a British Reformed Baptist preacher who reminded us that, “To feel God’s love is brown gucci handbags very precious, but to believe it when you do not feel it, is brown gucci handbags the noblest. He may be but a little Christian who knows God’s love, but he is brown gucci handbags a great Christian who believes it when the visible contradicts it brown gucci handbags and the invisible withholds its witness.”
Test the waters! View ALL theological arguments through the brown gucci handbags eyes of love- with the filter of love. Love is brown gucci handbags the heart of all valid religious doctrines. Without the heart, there really is brown gucci handbags no life.
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