WHERE IS THE LOVE OF GOD?

“AND HOPE MAKETH NOT ASHAMED; BECAUSE THE LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS BY THE HOLY GHOST WHICH IS GIVEN UNTO US.FOR WHILE WE WERE STILL HELPLESS, AT THE RIGHT TIME CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY – BUT GOD DEMONSTRATES HIS OWN LOVE TOWARD US, IN THAT WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US.” ROMANS 5:5,6,8

I often wonder where the love of God is within the body of Christ. A year ago I conducted the funeral service for a week-old baby boy. The infant’s parents weren’t married and they had no church background, but I had buried the young girl’s grandmother a couple years before and so I found myself doing my best to show this couple the love of God.
In a few days (on the anniversary of their lost baby’s birth) I will be marrying them. As I met with them last evening I asked about their beliefs and church background. I listened intently and broken-hearted as they relayed their experiences with “Christians”.

“There’s a man who comes into my place of employment; we girls have nick-named him, “Jesus Man”. When I was 7 months pregnant or so, he came into work; “Where’s your ring?” I said, “excuse me!” “Are you married?” “I was shocked at his boldness, I was just trying to do my job, he continued; are you going to get married before this baby comes?” “No!” The man’s next few words caused the young lady great sorrow, “Well, you know where you’re going then!”

In one fell-swoop this man had judged, tried and convicted her without as much a common concern for her or her baby.
About this time the young woman and her boyfriend began attending a mega church in. While they didn’t like the size, they did like the preaching and the worship. Within the first few weeks of attending the girl’s mother suffered a financial set-back; being in need and at her daughter’s suggestion and out of desperation, the woman called the church asking for some temporary assistance. Upon receiving the request, the pastor in charge answered, “We’d really like to help you, but your unmarried daughter and her illegitimate baby live with you, for that reason we can’t!” Needless to say, the young couple have never attended church there or anywhere else since.

Almost a year ago, within days of losing her baby she was also told by a co-worker, who is a preacher’s daughter, that God had taken her son because the baby was conceived in sin. This is the same co-worker that hounds the young girl daily about coming to her father’s church. I wonder if the preacher’s daughter realizes that we are all conceived in sin? Since the announcement of the upcoming nuptials, rather than the expected encouragement you might expect the woman to give this young woman, she has been hearing, “A little late, isn’t it?” I believe God weeps for His children.

If we the Church are to offer “HOPE” through the “LOVE OF GOD SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS”, where is the Good News of Hope; indeed, where is the “LOVE OF GOD”? God help us! If Christ so loved us while we were yet sinners; why don’t we who call ourselves by His Name off the same unconditional love to those who are still lost?
Except by the grace of God, you are no different from the most desperate sinner you know. Let us love God with all that we are and love one another as we love ourselves. In Jesus’ Name
AMEN!

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