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God Is Love
A Christian farmer fixed a weather vane on the roof of his barn with the text, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). A neighbor asked if the text so placed indicated that the love of God was as changeable as the wind. “No,” said the farmer, “it means that God is love at all times, at all seasons, no matter how the wind blows.”
Yes, it is easy to say “God is love” when everything is going along smoothly and according to our own plans. But what about when the winds of circumstance blow contrary and boisterous? Do we hear Him say, “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” (Jeremiah 31:3)?
Human love can indeed be as changeable as the wind and the weather. But the love of God is divine, consistent, and constant.
The love of God, it changes not,
Not like the ebbing tide!
It is the same as when His Son,
For us on Calvary died;
And proved itself when blood flowed forth,
From Jesus wounded side.
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