Love Truth Blog

The one attribute of God that stands out and resonates with many is that of love. If there is one thing that people know about God is that He is a God of love. “God is love” (1 John 4:8). The love in this instance isn’t some epicurean fancy (like eggs with truffles or caviar), neither is it a fraternal bond between like minded cohorts, neither is it the romantic quest against all odds to find the elusive soul mate. The kind of love displayed by God is one that involves the unconditional giving of oneself for the betterment and glory of another. A cardinal truth of Christianity is that God incarnated Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, who gave His own life to redeem sinners and bring them into a right relationship with God the Father. In Romans 5, Paul writes, “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love...

Every now and then I come across a devotional that would state something like God took a risk in creating free creatures with the ability to choose otherwise, and the real possibility of rejecting their creator. In the same way, God also took a risk in entrusting free yet whimsical creatures with the entire task of advancing His earthy kingdom through the preaching of the Gospel. The gist of the idea is that God in some way understands our struggles in venturing out into uncertainty. Does God take risks? It is important to avoid attributing risk experienced by everyday finite people to an infinite all knowing deity. Risk implies taking action or making a decision wherein the outcome of loss or injury is a real possibility, which is due to the fact that finite creatures have an imperfect knowledge of future events, and they can only guess the outcome. One of the reasons why a free creature might take a risk is that the anticipated benefits outweigh the potential liabilities. 1 Risk...

One amazing thing about God is that His existence extended beyond the big bang and the formation of all time and matter. God is not only everywhere present at the moment, He is also eternal with neither beginning nor end. There was never a time He did not exist, neither will there ever be a time He shall cease to exist. The psalmist declares, “Before the mountains were born, or Your gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God” (Psalm 9:2, NASB). Christ is “before all things, and in Him all things hold together (Col. 1:17). As finite people we are bound in time. We live in the present, remember the past, and look forward to the future. We arrive either on time, early, or late. We even try to define our lives in relation to time—what we have done, where we are at, and what we hope to accomplish. Yet, God transcends all these things. He is not bound to live moment by moment. The everlasting God is the source of our understanding of the universe...

The hymn "It is Well" by Horatio G. Spafford is truly sweet poetry... Images of a soul immersed in the tears of life in a cursed creation finding refuge in the God who saves... When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like the sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, ‘It is well with my soul.’ Tho’ Satan should buffet, tho’ trials should come, Let this blest assurance control, That Christ has regarded my helpless estate, And hath shed His own blood for my soul. My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious tho’t!— My sin, not in part, but the whole, Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight, The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend, ‘Even so,’ it is well with my soul. It is well with my soul, It is well, it is well with my soul.

How foolish it is to think that the God who exists can only be found in a certain location. Can we really say, “God is here, but not there?” What do we mean when we say, “Let your glory fill this place,” or “Be filled with the Spirit?” Isaiah prophesied, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being’ ” (Isa. 66:1-2a). Here we find that the presence of God in the world is far more expansive than the very temple that had been built for the very purpose of worshipping God. David likewise sings, “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there” (Psa. 139:7-8). The king understood that even if he were to traverse the great divide between the living and the dead, even in the afterlife God would still be...

For the LORD God omnipotent reigneth! Hallelujah! God is worthy to receive all glory, honor, and praise from people. He is to be worshiped because of who He is. One attribute or characteristic of God is omnipotence. God is all powerful and there is no other like Him. There is nothing that exists that is impossible for Him to handle. He is neither bound by any limitations, nor subject to losing any of His capacities. The works of the Almighty are evident. God is the creator of all things. The psalmist declares, “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host” (Ps. 33:2). God has spoken and the universe came into existence out of nothing. So vast is this universe that if one could take a space ship from earth to the universe’s edge at the speed of light at 186, 000 miles per second—barring the time alterations that Einstein theorized would happen and using earth-bound clocks—it would take 100,000 years until we can make out the spiral shape o...

On March 2, 2010, Glenn Beck said, I beg you, look for the words “social justice” or “economic justice” on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now…the idea…am I advising people to leave their church? Yes! If I’m going to Jeremiah’s Wright’s church? Yes! Leave your church. Social justice and economic justice. They are code words. If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop and tell them, “Excuse me are you down with this whole social justice thing?” I don’t care what the church is. If it’s my church, I’m alerting the church authorities: “Excuse me, what’s this social justice thing?” And if they say, “Yeah, we’re all in that social justice thing,” I’m in the wrong place. Beck’s statement generated heated debate from various social media venues, and rightly so, since his statement appears to communicate that the criteria for leaving a church in this day...