God Works According to His Nature

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:7-8

“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16

I, for one, am glad that God works according to His nature aren’t you? Can you image what this world would be like if the Lord worked in our lives like we tend to do with others? Ugh, what a mess that could be! Thankfully He doesn’t.

God operates according to His nature.

1. God is love- His will is always best.

2. God is all-knowing- His directions are always right.

3. God is all-powerful- He can enable you to accomplish His will.

These truths aren’t new to most of us, but it was good to hear them again. Blackaby reiterated them in a way that reminded me to trust God more with my life. He reminded me that God works through His love in my life with my best interest in mind. Blackaby says, “I always view my circumstances against the backdrop of the cross, where God clearly demonstrated once and for all His deep love for me.” We ought never to doubt His love for us because He showed us his love when he died on the cross for our sins.

I’ll go one step farther and say He showed us His love when He willingly left heaven and became man. In the book, A Love Worth Giving, Max Luacdo talks about all Jesus’ sacrificed for us. “Love goes the distance… and Christ traveled from limitless eternity to be confined by time in order to become one of us…. When he saw the size of the womb, he could have stopped. When he saw how tiny his hand would be, how soft his voice would be, how hungry his tummy would be, he could have stopped. At the first whiff of the stinky stable, at the first gust of cold air. The first time he scraped his knee or blew his nose or tasted burnt bagels, he could have turned and walked out. When he saw the dirt floor of his Nazareth house. When Joseph gave him a chore to do. When his fellow students were dozing off during the reading of the Torah, his Torah. When the neighbor took his name in vain. When the lazy farmer blamed his poor crop on God. At any point Jesus could have said, “That’s it! That’s enough! I’m going home.” But he didn’t. He didn’t because He is love. And “love…endures all things” (1 Cor. 13:4-7) He endured the distance. What’s more, he endured the resistance.” When you think about Jesus’ love in those terms it is humbling.

I hope you’re getting a blessing from our current book. I want to encourage you to get started if you haven’t. There’s only 38 days till our next meeting!