Have you ever prayed for a job? or maybe for provision for a trip or for money to buy your kids gifts. Have you had those prayers answered and exclaimed how loving God is. Or maybe you’ve walked through a canyon or up a mountain, watched a sunset or listened to the ocean and truly felt the Love of God. What if all of this experiential glory didn’t have anything to do with the Love of God. I propose that it doesn’t. In reality it can’t because these things don’t happen to everyone, and yet God is Love. These are all things that we neither deserve nor earn. If we have them though, then we must fight with everything to make them available to as many people as possible and if we do, well then maybe we can start talking about the Love of God. When an act of beauty or goodness falls upon us and we immediately try to bless others with it, share it, make it available to those whom it is not available, turn it in to an opportunity to love, when we have ability to do that, then I think we can say we’ve experienced the love of God. The Love of God and the Kingdom of God. The inability to do that is what I am beginning to see as nothing less than hell.

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