God’s expression of power is bounded by His
nature of Love. Nevertheless, His acts of Love are similarly only within the
parameters of His Wisdom.
God’s love is perfect. It’s not our
touchy-feely, mushy-gooey kind. When God acts in love, it is based on His
Wisdom. Pr. 8:22-33 talks about God and “Wisdom”; it tells how “wisdom” was
there right from the very foundations of the world. Wisdom is the principal
(in Hebrew, literally “first”) thing (Pr 4:7). Before anything was created,
there was wisdom. Wisdom is what dictates the expressions of Love. People who
say, “If God is love why is there a Hell?” miss this part.
As Believer’s, our kind of love must be God’s
kind, the kind instigated and coordinated by His wisdom. When we read
the synoptic Gospels, we get the impression that Jesus – powerful “Son of God”
that He was – just strolled around town healing anyone he saw and doing
miracles indiscriminately. But John’s Gospel shows us that there was a
deliberateness and selectivity to His miracles; (e.g. He visited the Temple
severally but didn’t heal the lame man of Acts 3 even though scriptures say
that man was there every day). Even the “feeding of the 5,000”, John points
out, was more for a strategic reason than just compassion (Jn 6:4).
Beloved, there’s more to love than feeding the
poor or opening orphanages. If we’re to be efficient stewards of God’s
resources and effective channels of His love to the World, then our acts of
love must go beyond human sentiments.
Even the
most altruistic expression of human love is tainted. However, Believers who act
according to God’s perfect love – who are directed and influenced by the wisdom
of the Holy Spirit – will find their work and life to be focused, effective,
and Heaven-sanctioned (Rom 8:6,7).
As you imitate His “godliness”, may you
experience greater and more glorious dimensions of His blessings than you’ve
ever seen.
AMEN.
Have a Blessed
weekend.
GREG ELKAN
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