I Love you, but, I don't Like You.
I Love you, but, I don't Like You. Psa 78:38-39 But he, being
full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them
not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir
up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a
wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. God remembers that
man is just flesh and prone to mistakes and evil. Gods
compassion for mankind, as it has become, is not limitless but
has a time line that will be followed. Have you ever told anyone
that you loved them but were not, In Love with them? Very
strange words that man comes up with. But is it really strange
or are they just taking the thoughts of God to Heart? We all
know that we have the mind of Christ, because the Bible says
that we do. But we don't have the mind of God and that is why I
thought I would instill a little thought of my own, into you,
about His mind and the way He thinks about His creation. In
genesis, everything that God created in days 1 thru 5 he said
were good, but when it came to man, He didn't say that it was
good, neither did He say that what He created was good. Gen 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them. As mans ability grew,
God became a little frustrated with His creation and repented
that He created Him. Genesis 6:5 thru 6, And GOD saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Grieved; to wound
the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to
afflict; to hurt. Heart; The seat of the affections or
sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy,
grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the
understanding or will; usually in a good sense, when no epithet
is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the
spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life
and character; the moral affections and character itself; the
individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender,
loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart. Man had, and still does,
wound the sensibilities of and the individual disposition and
character of God. God Loves us but He doesn't like us. Simple
but true. Our disposition is set against the laws and statutes
of God because its in our nature to do so, sense the fall of
Adam. Man continually wars against God because of his inbred
nature of world conquest and greed for another mans possessions.
Jesus was sent to this earth to save man from himself and save
the soul of man from an angry God, again because God loved His
creation but didn't like it. Jesus had a difficulty with man
also for He and the Father spoke as one, for they are one. In
Matthew 23:37 Jesus said; "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that
killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
The following beautiful Greek epigram, taken from the
Anthologia, affords a very fine illustration of this text.
Beneath her fostering wing the Hen defends Her darling
offspring, while the snow descends; Throughout the winter's day
unmoved defies The chilling fleeces and inclement skies; Till,
vanquish'd by the cold and piercing blast, True to her charge,
she perishes at last! O Fame! to hell this fowl's affection
bear; Tell it to Progne and Medea there: - To mothers such as
those the tale unfold, And let them blush to hear the story
told! - T.G. Jesus would protected and saved man as He was but
for mans ir-respect for Him and His Father. Man then, as is
today, have fallen away from God and is hurting Him with his
sinful nature. Its not just the un-believer but also some that
say they are Christians and are not but do lie. I wanted to read
a little from the same chapter of Matthew. 23:32 thru 36. Fill
ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and
scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of
them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them
from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous
blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto
the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between
the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these
things shall come upon this generation. Psalms 139:20 thru 23.
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy
name in vain. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am
not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them
with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O
God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: David was
not rebuked by God for these statements, God understood what
David was saying as we all should. Man has grieved God from
generation to generation. Gods love, as stated in John 3:16,
still stands today but His dislike for His creation also stands.
Just imagine giving your only son for a creation that is
burdensome to you, this is the type of Love God showed us and
the type of man that David was as He spoke those words. God
enemies are our enemies. When they blaspheme Gods Name they hurt
us because that is our Father they speak of. Romans 7:18 For I
know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is
good I find not. Romans 8:8, So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God. Just remember that God, being full of
compassion, will forgave your iniquity but there is coming a
time that his anger will not be turned away, but He will stir up
all his wrath. Exo_32:14; Num_23:19; Deu_32:36; 1Sa_15:11,
1Sa_15:29; 2Sa_24:16; 1Ch_21:15; Psa_106:45, Psa_110:4;
Jer_18:8-10, Jer_26:19; Hos_11:8; Jon_3:10; Mal_3:6; Rom_11:29;
Heb_6:17, Heb_6:18; Jam_1:17 grieved: Deu_5:29, Deu_32:29;
Psa_78:40, Psa_81:13, Psa_95:10, Psa_119:158; Isa_48:18,
Isa_63:10; Eze_33:11; Luk_19:41, Luk_19:42; Eph_4:30; Heb_3:10,
Heb_3:17