have you ever jumped to conclusions about some one without knowing all the facts? or without having anything to back it up with at all? and then found out just how wrong you were. sure, we all have. some people even do it with God. there are so many people out there who hate God. they brand Him as a God who doesnt care. or they say that He is a hateful God. some of them have even called Him a dictator. they have basically decided that He is bad, and they dont want to believe in Him. the thing is, they have jumped to these conclusions based on false information fed to them by other people, who themselves know nothing about God. they base their decision on vague information they have gleaned from various non faith based sources, or just on things that have happened in life they feel like is Gods fault. and the thing is, they label God all those horrible things without truly knowing Him. many of them have never set foot in a church. theyve never read a bible. theyve never even so much as said a prayer. and even if they ever have, they never really took the time to know God well. if they did. if they went to church, read His word, had been around His people, they would see how wrong they are. they would discover that God is not hateful. they would see that He loves us. they would see that He is love. they would see that God is a God who cares about us. He is a God that loves us so much that He sacrificed His own Son to save us all. they would see that He is always there for us. even in the hardest of times, and that when we trust in Him, He will get us through them. they would see a God of Hope, a God of Love. they would see a God who saves us from the darkness, and gives us more than we could ever ask, and has provided us with an amazing future. so dont jump to conclusions about some one without knowing the facts. if you do you may be missing out on knowing an amazing person. and dont jump to conclusions about God either. because you would miss out in knowing a Heavenly Father who cares for you, and loves you as His own, and will always be there for you until the end. in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, amen. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.-1 John 4:16(ESV) Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.-1 John 4:8(ESV) “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.-John 3:16(NLT) We love because he first loved us.-1 John 4:19(ESV) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.-1 Corinthians 13(ESV)
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:49:41 +0000