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FAQ # 117
QUESTION 117 : In
what one word is the character of God expressed?
“God is love” (1 John 4:8).
The mere fact that he didn’t
kill Adam and Eve showed that he had compassion on humanity; with multitude
of examples throughout history.
The bible tells us, “For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
He saw that he wasn’t fully
getting through to man so he came and made himself a sacrifice in the
form of a son. He saw that man was “bent to backslide”
(Hos 11:7), so through his spirit, he caused us to walk in his statutes, and keep his judgments, and do them
(Eze 36:27); also making us always acceptable to him and imperishable.
In other words, “his desire to see all men and women know life as he intended
it is so strong that he has tried again and again throughout the history
of man to redirect us into his predestinated path. The life, death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ is his final attempt.” Would a President
come and live in your neighborhood for a week? Much more God, who came
in the world and suffered persecution by the hands of his own creation
for you and I. The bible said, “He was in the world, and the world was
made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his
own received him not” (John 1:10-11). He did it out of love.
Thank God that no one else is ever “God.”
Many of us, if we were God
would destroy the entire humanity and start all over again. God was so
merciful that he wouldn’t even destroy a city without first removing the
righteous (Gen 18:26) and even if the righteous are in the city they would
be saved (Eze 14:14).
Even the psalmist David had
to confess, “But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious,
long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth” (Ps 86:15).
“It is of the Lord’s mercies
that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new
every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lam 3:22).
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