He is!

A single magnificent Being, the author of all that there is, containing within Himself all power, all life, all light, all perfection and all love, infinite and never ending, is! He never was or will be, He simply – is! Unbound by time and space, He is! Before feeble man made an appearance, before the foundation of the world, the planets, the stars and the universe, before the birth of the heavens and the spiritual beings which we know so little of and even before the very idea of eternity, He is! So absolutely perfect and whole He is, that He needs no other to define Him, to comfort Him, to advise Him or to keep Him company! So infinite He is, that not even He knows the depths of His own being! His very essence is infinite as even His own Spirit searches out the depths of Himself. So utterly limitless is this Being, that not even eternity itself will provide enough time to fathom the lengths and the depths of who He is. There is no other that is even vaguely comparable, no other that is the slightest threat and no other that can ever hope to be like Him. He is supreme, holy, almighty, righteous, patient, kind, but the one thing that defines Him above all else, so much so that He has made Himself synonymous with it, is love. God is love!

If love be the highest form, the greatest value, the strongest tie, the richest language, the most powerful force, then it would only make sense that if there is an ultimate Creator, an all supreme Being, He would be defined primarily by this very power – love!

What is love? This is a question that has been asked by many a song writer through the ages! Is it just a feeling? Is it a mere decision? Is it only as the Oxford dictionary puts it “an intense feeling of deep affection, a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone or a great interest and pleasure in something”? Can it only be defined by the feeble flutters of a starry-eyed couple on a moonlit rooftop, the powerful bond between a glowing mother and her precious little newborn, nestled snuggly in her bosom or even by the refined, seasoned and tempered relationship of a wrinkly old couple on their golden wedding anniversary? Is love not in essence the act of laying down one’s life for the object of one’s love? Is the nature of love not completely and utterly unconditional, forgiving, unwavering and never ending? 1 Cor 13 puts it so perfectly, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” What greater act of love then is there, than a God who gave up His own life, in the form of His Son, in order to restore the destroyed relationship between ourselves and Himself!

If this be true, looking for the ‘right’ God is not nearly as hard as what I’ve spent my life believing it to be! I got to a point in my life, where I figured I’d just have to believe that the God of the Christians is the ‘right’ God! There were various things about Christianity that stood out as convincing enough above all the many other claims to have found the ‘real’ God, but when this revelation of His love enlightened my ever questioning mind, my heart responded with a complete and total, unquestionable peace. Never again would I ever doubt who my God is – and He loves me even more than what I will discover from an eternity with Him!