Gossip abounds.  Slander paves the roads of man.  Lies are grease to  financial prosperity.  Power is wielded without tenderness.  And order is kept at the point of a gun.  The way of man appears before us gilded by violence.  Little wonder many support the accusation that there is no God.

What little peace a man might grasp jostles in his hand.  In his clamor to attain, he will grasp at anything above him.  Not caring whose skin he tears, his hands claw to find release.  This is the way of man.

All this he does while he broadcasts that he loves.  But the love of man is  thoroughly conditional.   “I’m a nice guy till ya mess with me.”  Then, kind sir, you are no nice guy at all.

God is Love.  In His love He willingly reaches into this chaotic slime of man’s “best”.  “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)  But who will endure His message?

Hundreds and thousands of men (perhaps millions of millions) have shunned His offer.  “His law is too high for us”, they complain.  So they turn again to their vicious clamoring.  They do not realize that this law is God’s personal law.  He is subject to His own ways.  If the law speaks of mercy, then God is merciful.  If it speaks of righteous behavior, He is righteous.

It is so curious to me that we tend to throw away His law because we realize we can’t fulfill it.  All the while we miss the fact that the law of God is perfection and love.

Those who know the Father through the Son, soon realize that this law which condemns us is the very vehicle which saves us.  How I desire to be able to speak plainly into the heart of man.  “God is Love.”