About abounding in love…
Jonah 4:2. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to
anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. (NIV)
Of the many troubles and trials we face in life, worrying about what God will
do to us should not be one of our problems. For the God of our salvation is not
a being who seeks to destroy us, but is a being of love who walks beside us
wanting to restore us. Our
God is a being of love who seeks to give us life, to rescue us, to give us what
we cannot have on earth…a life that will never end. We have a God, we have a
savior, we have a redeemer and friend, who loves us without bounds or limits. In
every trial or tribulation of our life, we are not alone because we have a
loving God who walks with us every minute. We have our calamities. We have our
tribulations. However, our God is not the sender of our troubles. Our troubles
come from our great adversary, from our great enemy, from the fiery hand of
Satan. No matter how much trouble we face, Christ understands us and is there to
help us. Christ does not attack us. Christ does not get up in our face and
scream at us. Christ does not even point out our faults and mistakes. Christ
does not do any of these things with us because He is gracious and compassionate
towards us. For us to live fully in this life, Christ needs us to confront the
source of our trouble. Christ needs us to look in the mirror and see that we
either open the door of our heart to darkness and sin or we close that door and
open up the door of our heart to God's love, God's compassion, and Christ's love
for us.
