The Scripture teaches us "God is Love." So let's do a simple little learning exercise together. Let's take the famous chapter about love, I Corinthians 13, and use simple word substitution to see what it teaches us about God's character. (Credit to the NASB translation for the basic text.)
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have God, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have God, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have God, it profits me nothing.
God is patient,
God is kind and
God is not jealous;
God does not brag and
God is not arrogant,
God does not act unbecomingly;
God does not seek God's own,
God is not provoked,
God does not take into account a wrong suffered,
God does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but
God rejoices with the truth;
God bears all things,
God believes all things,
God hopes all things,
God endures all things.
God never fails; ....
Now, let's pause for a moment to ask ourselves the question, Is this the nature of the God I am expecting as I interact with Him today ? Or is this just an imaginary God who I have never really met?
His, thus Yours,
Stuart
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