Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Sunday, August 2, 2015
Returning to God's Ever-Present Love
We often confuse unconditional love with unconditional approval. God loves us without
conditions but does not approve of every human behavior. God doesn't approve of
betrayal, violence, hatred, suspicion, and all other expressions of evil, because
they all contradict the love God wants to instill in the human heart. Evil is the
absence of God's love. Evil does not belong to God.
God's unconditional love means that God continues to love us even when we say or
think evil things. God continues to wait for us as a loving parent waits for the
return of a lost child. It is important for us to hold on to the truth that God
never gives up loving us even when God is saddened by what we do. That truth will
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