The main point of our preaching series “God's Love” is that God's love is not how we conjure it up in our minds. The Bible's description of God's love often takes us by surprise...sometimes it's not understood by us...it always requires faith and trust in God's loving purposes. The problem is when we try to superimpose our expectations and near-sighted approval of how God should manifest His love. Two problems here:

1) God is perfectly holy...we are not. How He loves is a perfect manifestation of AGAPE (“Agape love is not merely an attribute of God, it is His essence. God is fundamentally love. He alone loves in the completeness and perfection of love)
2) God is omniscient...that is, God knows the beginning from the end...we do not. God knows how, when, and where to manifest His love. In other word, we don't tell God what love is, He tells us how His love is demonstrated. Whatever His mercy and grace and kindness and goodness and tender-heartedness achieved cannot obliterate what will be made manifest by His hatred, His anger, His wrath, His vengeance and His justice. All of God's attributes have a place in the demonstration of His love.

If we cannot accept the fact that the chief desire of God is that His attributes will be honored and glorified, then we will experience “spiritual dejection” when we are faced with seemingly unanswerable questions in the tragedies of life. Not trusting in “God's Love,” we are left with resentment, disillusionment, and anxiousness.

We don't realize that all the time God is at work in our everyday events and in the people around us is key to understanding God's love. No matter what the circumstance might be, we know that God is working through that circumstance according to His love for us. Although we may not be able to see or understand the path God has laid out for us, we know and trust God has a glorious purpose for it and we will finally see God's ultimate expression of His love. My prayer for you and me today is this...Lord, teach us that You are always working in our lives out of Your infinite love for us. No matter what the circumstance might be, the circumstance has been carefully designed by a loving God to bring out the image of Christ in us and bring You glory and honor. Keep us from feeling dejected because of our spiritual short-sightedness. Amen.
Stanphill's song comes to my mind:

I don't know about tomorrow,
I just live from day to day.
I don't borrow from its sunshine,
For its skies may turn to gray.
I don't worry o'er the future,
For I know what Jesus said,
And today I'll walk beside Him,
For He knows what is ahead.

Many things about tomorrow,
I don't seem to understand;
But I know who holds tomorrow,
And I know who holds my hand.

Walk with the King today and be a blessing.