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I was listening to a Tim Keller sermon this morning in the car, and he was comparing God to a storm. A storm is all-powerful and threatening, and when we see the full power of a storm, it leaves us in stunned silence, often afraid. God, too, is all-powerful, and to see the full power of God would leave us in stunned silence, afraid.
The difference is that God loves us.
A storm is just chaos, leaving destruction in its wake, caring little for what stands in its way. If life truly is a cosmic accident, we're all in the path of the storm, and none will ultimately escape its wrath.
God, however, designed us with intent, and is intent on saving us, delivering us from the cosmic storm because we are beloved. God is love, and this changes everything in the universe, because we know that in the beginning, there was nothing but love, and the arc of the universe will bend towards a final culmination in love as well, because one day that is all that will be.
So God is love, and God has freely chosen to love you -- therefore, we ought to love one another, right?
What else is there?
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