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God STILL Is Love
Mr.
Spurgeon, the great English preacher, was once riding in the
country. His eye suddenly fastened on a weather vane on a
farmer’s barn. On the arrow of the weather vane were
inscribed the three words: “God is love.”
Alighting from his coach and walking up to the farmer, he
asked “What do you mean by that? Do you mean that God’s
love changes with the wind?” “Oh, no!” said the farmer, “I
mean that whichever way the wind is blowing, God still
is love!”
If only we Christians could always remember
that! “Whichever way the wind is blowing, God still is
love.” When the sky is blue and the sun is shining and all
is calm and quiet, it is a comparatively simple matter to
agree that “God is love.” But when the heavens frown, when
the clouds hang low and dark and heavy, when the winds begin
to beat against our little lives, then—how frequently we
begin to doubt that God is love.
If ever there was a life in which the winds
of misfortune blew stiff and strong, it was the life of
ancient Job. Within a relatively brief time Job had lost
everything that he possessed—wealth, wife, children,
property, herds—and, added to it all, he experienced the
painful agony of a severe case of sores and boils from the
soles of his feet to the top of his head.
So desperate and so seemingly hopeless was
his condition that his friends suggested to him that he
“curse God and die.” But what was Job’s reply? “Though He
slay me, yet will I trust Him!” He was convinced that “no
matter which way the winds were blowing, God still is love!”
We who have seen the love of God poured out on Calvary’s
cross can never doubt that statement. “He that spared not
His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He
not with Him also freely give us all things?”
“...If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31
GOD STILL IS LOVE!
(By; Herman W. Gockel) |
