I am dozing in front of my computer. I am semi-awake. It has been a while since I have touched the keyboard or the mouse and the computer’s screen saver has come on. I am getting a wonderful slide show of my grandchildren. One by one in marvelous situations they appear for a few seconds in front of my happy eyes. It brings me great joy just to look at them, let alone have opportunities to be with them. When they come to Old Farm Road I do a lot of watching. They have no idea, absolutely no concept of how much they are loved. They are busy growing and learning and finding out who they are. They have no thoughts of wonder about what Papa is thinking. The thought that there is someone in the world who would die for them never enters their innocent minds, nor should it.
I have come to understand that the difference between me and my grandchildren and God and us is He is not dozing in front of a computer. He needs no screen saver nor does He need special holiday visits. He just watches us go about our busy lives with little regard to the incredible attention we receive. Fortunately we do have a written record of His love and that He really did die for us. That’s the Good News. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son.”
The world is us not just our planet. He has a universe full of rock and gas spheres. They are not overly lovable. However, now that I have said that I am not so sure we are always overly loveable. Yet despite our often obnoxiousness, His love never ceases. He is incredible.
Written by Roger Bothwell on December 8, 2008.
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