If God Be For Us

March 24

Where there is great love there are always miracles. - Willa Cather

How can love be the springboard for miracles? Perhaps because it is the one human emotion that so emulates the character and the heart of God, who tells us of Himself, "God is love," I John 4:8. Perhaps it is because, as the WORD of GOD that cannot fail and cannot lie says to us, "Love covers a multitude of sins," I Peter 4:8. Again, this affirmation is a total reflection of Jesus who gave Himself in order to cover our sins. When we love—in spite of the failures and foibles and sins of those around us, we are reflecting the Lord Himself who loves the most evil among us and will wash away the sin of every man who asks—in the cleansing font of Calvary's flow.

Is there much to forgive? Sometimes the offenses are many and weighty, but when the resolve to love is greater than the natural tendency to retaliate or to hold a grudge, the great miracle of forgiveness can occur—and the greater miracle of love can do its work. When the mechanism for those two matchless entities—forgiveness and love—is set in motion, there is no limit, no restriction, no hindrance to the unfolding of true miracles—not just the good things that accrue from kindnesses exchanged and normalcy restored to a relationship, but the true, God-initiated miracles that thrive wherever love and forgiveness dwell!

Decide to give God’s way of loving and forgiving a to chance result in the kinds of miracles that love brings. Be enveloped in a cocoon of the Lord's presence and power around you to facilitate the effecting of love's work without hindrance from interfering or conflicting attitudes or emotions from others who may not see your resolve as a positive step in the direction of a good goal. They may count you as a fool because you employ the emotions of Heaven to overcome the evils of Earth, but we who believe are prepared to be “fools for Christ’s sake,” I Corinthians 4:10. May you give love, truth, hope, peace, joy, kindness—the fruit of the Spirit—a chance to result in the full and complete reign of the Lord Jesus Christ over your heart, within your home, and through all the circumstances that fall within the sphere of your influence.

May HIS LORDSHIP over you bring good things to you to such a degree that nothing and no one else will matter. May other opinions melt into the great opinion of GOD which says, "Father forgive them..." Luke 23:4, and which says, "Love never fails," I Corinthians 13:8. May the Lord's investment of Himself into your experiment of loving as He loves be so full and complete that every other person who has any connection to you must be conformed to the great mind of Christ—bringing to pass the promise, "IF GOD BE FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US," Romans 8:31.