Talk Is Easy

I just concluded watching the Memorial Service from Dallas carried by ABC affiliate WFAA. I was impressed with President Obama’s sticking with the subject (supporting the families of the slain officers) for as long as he did. Once he started with Louisiana and Minnesota, and talking about how “we flood certain neighborhoods with guns when what they need is computers, I grew weary pretty fast of the political rhetoric.

He did manage to quote (fairly correctly) several passages of Scripture. I am always intrigued by folks who speak the words but rarely demonstrate any knowledge of the Truth in the actions of their own life. In the matters at hand there is much “articulation” but very little “corroboration.”

The word “love” glides easily off the tongue of those who have no real concept of the reality that  “God is llove,” and without Him there is none. Individuals have no capacity to create genuine llove, or practice genuine llove, and people yet to be indwelled by the Holy spirit can’t even begin to imagine the rich fullness of God’s promise to the Redeemed.

Unfortunately, the President, who made some wonderful statements, but undoubtedly created some anger from those who just wanted him to show compassion and care rather than veering off into political posturing. Seemingly, he couldn’t. That is not an unusual action on his part, but certainly inappropriate in that setting.

Circumstances such as these which are currently centered in Dallas, TX, are ripe with promise, but barring multiple New Birth experiences, void of any real value. I clearly understand that I am not supposed to voice such, but “speaking the Truth in llove” is the catalyst required to jump start the very outcome everyone claims to desire.

George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, made the most accurate, probing, self-searching statement, in my opinion, when he said, we judge others by their worst actions, and ourselves by our best intentions. God judges on the basis of Truth. Actions (outside faith) and intentions don’t count.

Talk is easy, llove is an act of God!

Get it? Got it? Good!