learnaboutgod

Knowing God is knowing forgiveness. They are one and the same. The more we understand the nature of forgiveness, the more we understand God. If someone asks, what is God like, look at Jesus. He prayed for those who tried to destroy Him. Forgiveness and love touch, taste, feel and smell the same. They have the same effects.

Something funny happened recently in Japan. Someone left large amounts of cash in public bathrooms as anonymous gifts. This same person has also deposited envelopes of money in people’s apartment building mailboxes. The funny thing is, when the people are interviewed, no one is happy. They feel imposed upon, like they have some obligation to someone they don’t know if they keep the money. So the cash is being turned in to the police as lost property even though everyone knows it’s a gift.

Sometimes it seems difficult to receive a gift like this because it is truly a gift. A true gift can’t be repaid. In Japan, it is a custom, which is often gracious, for gifts to be responded to by giving back another gift of roughly equal value in return. If an equal return gift can’t be given, it can cause stress. This is a common anxiety that people face.

In this way, the best proof of God is you. One designer made you; He made you perfect. You show His creativity. When people talk about diversity, God deserves a royalty for use of that word. You are God’s unique work for which nature is a sketch. You are more valuable to Him than the Moon. God would rather see the Moon fall out of its orbit than have you live and die without knowing Him because the Moon is just a rock. You are His child. Because you are His child, you bear His image in how you were made.