Love, it is a great thing…
I love this quote from Paul, one of the coolest people in the gospel:
“And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth” Acts 17:26
Here is another way to say it…
He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race, for them to live on the whole surface of the earth (Weymouth NT)
Paul is actually preaching to a bunch of heathens (Love that word), idolators, and what have you, atheists, pagans, Satanists, who knows…about the futility of worshiping to gods that won’t do a thing for them. But my point is, we are all made from ONE God.
Does not matter who we are, what skin color we are, what color our hair is, how many tattooes we have, what color our hair is, how many times we have f*d up, how many addictions we have, how many times we have divorced, how many times we have lied, stolen, crapped up, gone back to our screwed up lifestyles.
How many times we have cheated, screamed, forgotten the word. We are all made from the SAME God. And, He LOVES US. Oh, how he does LOVE us. And he craves our attention.
He WANTS us so bad. He really does! He wants us to come to us. He is not up there with a whip ready to beat us down. His arms are wide open screaming, “Children, come to me my darlings and let me hug you up and adorn you with my gifts, the gifts of my kingdom, let me nurse your wounds and let me heal you!”
For, our God loves us. His miracles are plentiful. He wants to lead you into light and pull you out of darkness.
And, we all look different. We have different ways. We think differently. Are there requirements with our Lord? Sure. He wants us to glorify Him, He wants us to love one another.
But once you start to really understand who God is and how He is working in your life, that becomes really easy, even if you screw up again, because our God is a forgiving God.
He will help you in times of temptation. He will guide you step by step as you learn to crawl, toddle, and walk the path of a true Christian.
Won’t you take the time to learn who this amazing God is?
Love, love, love…love is the answer, love is our God.