My God is a Warm God

Good morning on this cold Saturday! The world wants to make my God cold. I heard this morning that God is a set of equations. I also heard that some don't like to use the 'God' word. Which is particularly strange given all the times in an evening of movie watching that one can hear our Lord's name used in vain. There was more but I won't try to make the morning any colder than it is already. Indifference is a horrible thing. The rich man didn't hate Lazarus in the parable Jesus told; he was indifferent toward him. Few people hate their neighbors, but many are indifferent toward them. To make God a shunned term or a set of equations is to be indifferent toward the Creator. Of course, those who are indifferent first deny that He was Creator.

The worst thing to do to a person in need is to be indifferent. To not know of the need is subject to a whole lot of circumstances; many of which do not lay blame at our feet. However, to know fully of a need, and then walk away without caring is horrible. To be unable to help seems awful enough to us, but to not care is heinous. Sometimes it seems to us that all we can do for so many needs is to pray. "All we can do..."?

Praise God that prayer is the best thing we can do, and we can do it for all needs. My God is a warm God, and His heart burns to be there in every need. Our biggest, longest, most immediate need is for salvation, and God sent His Son to the cross for that. There most certainly is no indifference in the sacrifice of Christ! Lazarus died in his need, but God snatched him up and assigned Abraham himself to see to the needs of the poor beggar. For us it might be like dying and having the Apostle Paul assigned to see to our healing and restoration before presenting us to Jesus. Of course, God already assigned His own Spirit to minister to us in every moment. No, I reject the indifference message of the world. My God is a warm and loving God!

Have a wonderful weekend in Christ,
Bucky