Thursday, June 23, 2011

To keep love flowing

We who follow Christ, who reverence the Name, can't allow the shame of feeling indifferent to others wherever in this world they may be.  I hope this fellow traveler is learning that when loving others starts to slip, it's more than a blip on the divine screen:  it's deadly serious and needs to begotten at as quickly as possible.

The worst thing about such blatant disobedience to what our Master taught?  A sense of estrangement from God--not that He ever stops caring about us.  But our heavenly Father who is all Love is not going to follow us out the door while we indulge in a little hate!  Do we want to lose the look of approval on His face?

If nothing else, a concern for our own well-being should impel a return to Him before it's too late.  (Not that it ever is, not divinely-speaking.)  But how many diseases can be traced to a lack of love being felt and expressed, a Canadian friend said.

With the armour of the Word, and no fooling praying, this need not be the case.  I John puts it clearly:  "God is love; and he taht dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God and God in him."

There is no safe or healthier place we can be.