Let Us Be Love
Our town cries out, the people mourn. Car accidents, shootings, suicides, a homicide…it's all too much for our small town to endure in less than two weeks.
It's easy, in times like these to ask, "If there is a God, why is there so much evil in the world?" but if we ask this then we must ask "With all the good and loveliness in the world, how could there not be a God?"
In the rainbow of crimson, gold, and amber that covers the Peaks of Otter every fall, in the waves that unceasingly crash against the shore, in the calves playing in the fields, in our children's eyes as they experience the world for the first time, in the flowers that come new every spring reminding us that new life is all around us. In all these things, how can we bare witness to this beauty and greatness then say there is no Creator?
If we believe the lie that God doesn't care, then why should we care? Maybe believing this lie makes it easier for us to turn and ignore the hurting and evil. Ignore that over 700 million people don't have enough food to live a healthy life but yet somewhere around 2.1 billion people are obese, so clearly the problem isn't a lack of food in the world, ignore that on average one person dies from suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world, ignore that people are hurting crushed in spirit, and yet we do nothing to comfort them, ignore that christians are being persecuted not only in the middle east but right here in the United States...
Maybe the truth is that humanity doesn't care? What if we loved, because He loved first, we cared because He cared first?
"-there is enough loveliness, enough beauty, enough love in this world--enough food in this world--if only we would just share. That the problem of evil in the world isn't a problem for proof of God--but a problem of our own turned-inward hearts? And when we turn our hearts outward, we in turn bear testimony to the loving existence of God, of the body of Christ right here..." (One Thousand Gifts by: Ann Voskamp)
Let us be an example of love and caring. There will always be hate and evil in the world, but let us not dwell and focus on the hate and evil. We must fall on our knees and cry out to Jesus, pray fervently for His grace, mercy, and love to overflow from this town. To make us an example of Christ's love to show other's that with God we will prevail and we will be stronger, the devil will not destroy what God is creating!
It's easy, in times like these to ask, "If there is a God, why is there so much evil in the world?" but if we ask this then we must ask "With all the good and loveliness in the world, how could there not be a God?"
In the rainbow of crimson, gold, and amber that covers the Peaks of Otter every fall, in the waves that unceasingly crash against the shore, in the calves playing in the fields, in our children's eyes as they experience the world for the first time, in the flowers that come new every spring reminding us that new life is all around us. In all these things, how can we bare witness to this beauty and greatness then say there is no Creator?
If we believe the lie that God doesn't care, then why should we care? Maybe believing this lie makes it easier for us to turn and ignore the hurting and evil. Ignore that over 700 million people don't have enough food to live a healthy life but yet somewhere around 2.1 billion people are obese, so clearly the problem isn't a lack of food in the world, ignore that on average one person dies from suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world, ignore that people are hurting crushed in spirit, and yet we do nothing to comfort them, ignore that christians are being persecuted not only in the middle east but right here in the United States...
Maybe the truth is that humanity doesn't care? What if we loved, because He loved first, we cared because He cared first?
"-there is enough loveliness, enough beauty, enough love in this world--enough food in this world--if only we would just share. That the problem of evil in the world isn't a problem for proof of God--but a problem of our own turned-inward hearts? And when we turn our hearts outward, we in turn bear testimony to the loving existence of God, of the body of Christ right here..." (One Thousand Gifts by: Ann Voskamp)
Let us be an example of love and caring. There will always be hate and evil in the world, but let us not dwell and focus on the hate and evil. We must fall on our knees and cry out to Jesus, pray fervently for His grace, mercy, and love to overflow from this town. To make us an example of Christ's love to show other's that with God we will prevail and we will be stronger, the devil will not destroy what God is creating!
"Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
and he delivered them from their distress.
He lead them by a straight way
to a city where they could settle.
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love."
Psalm 107:6-8
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