God Is Not Mad At You

Perhaps you have seen this sign before. "What's missing from CH--CH?" and then it would say "UR". as if it was saying "you are" missing from church. Cute, and catchy sign for sure, but it is also cute and catchy if  I say that the two letters can also stand for Universal Reconciliation! What really is missing from Church is the message of the reconciliation of all mankind! And I am of the firm belief that if U. R. were proclaimed within their walls, then not so many "You Are's" would be missing from church! The world is waiting for someone to tell them the Truth!

"And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to US the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given unto US the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be reconciled to God" (II Cor. 5:18-20).

It is hard to fathom that such a concept is so foreign to the so called preaching of the Gospel by most churches. I say so called Gospel, because if you put a condition on the good news by suggesting that the Love of God is conditional on the actions of a persons mortal life on this earth, then it is NO Gospel at all!

The LOVE OF GOD FOR ALL MANKIND IS THE GOSPEL!! If you are preaching anything else but that; if you are hearing anything else but that preached; if that is being said with any kind of condition on the part of mankind to merit it, then it is NOT the Gospel, but rather a LIE

There is a singing ministry couple from Lake City Tenn,  that Cindi and I met a few years back by the name of Gerald and Kathy Hovater. They sing a lot of their own songs, and they have a couple of CD's available to purchase.  One of the songs that they composed and sing is called "God is Not Mad at You". This song has touched the hearts of many, many people that have heard it; saved and unsaved alike! Just the title alone is enough to cause joy and relief at the sound of it, and for some even disbelief, that it could be true based on what the church system has been telling them!

Think about it. God is NOT mad at you!! Is that the message you hear from the church you go to? Is that the message you hear from other Christians? Is that the message of the Gospel you share with others? God is not mad at you IS the message of the Gospel! Unfortunately, most Christians preach the kind of message that says God is not mad at me, but He is mad at YOU! I earnestly hope that as the reader of this post, you would make sure you do share the full measure of the Love of God for ALL creation, and that His Love is NEVER ending!

Meditate on this verse from the Phillips translation of Ephesians 3:14-19

^14-19 When I think of the greatness of this great plan I fall on my knees before God the Father (from whom all fatherhood, earthly or heavenly, derives its name), and I pray that out of the glorious richness of his resources he will enable you to know the strength of the spirit’s inner re-inforcement—that Christ may actually live in your hearts by your faith. And I pray that you, firmly fixed in love yourselves, may be able to grasp (with all Christians) how wide and deep and long and high is the love of Christ—and to know for yourselves that love so far beyond our comprehension. May you be filled though all your being with God himself!

I believe many Christians put a limit on the Love of God for themselves, which is why they can also think that there is more of a limit on the Love of God for the unbeliever. They attach conditions to their own salvation, (conditions that do not exist in Scripture!) so that the same conditions and more can be attached to non believers, limiting God's love to their own carnal understanding.

I am persuaded by personal experience that if you ever got a momentary glimpse of the Love which God has for you, where Paul describes as "so far beyond our comprehension" that you then could not imagine such immutable Love could ever be overcome by the evil actions of any person, no matter how great. In other words, to the same measure you understand the Love God has for you, is the same measure you believe God could have for another. And if such Love is beyond your comprehension for yourself, then it is much more likely that you cannot believe such Love is extended beyond comprehension for All Creation. Truely you would need a revelation of the Love of God for yourself, to see that not only would you believe that God is not mad at me, but indeed you can freely tell the world: God Is Not Mad At You