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Dear Brothers and Sisters in
IAUA
(ee-ah-oo-ah) our Father,
Greetings on this day of preparation for the weekly sabbath. I hope this newsletter finds you in good health and happy in the service of the Lord. I had an epiphany this week. I was discussing with my mother the heartaches and emptiness of failed and troubled marriages. I expressed how these past few years I have felt closeness in marriage for the first time in my life. I was thinking about the words of Paul for the Corinthian church:
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother
hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell
with him, let him not put her away.
I spoke a thought that came to my mind from the Holy Spirit. True love and closeness does not take two people. It only takes one person that is absolutely committed to another. That is the love that God has for us. It is true that there is great joy and fulfillment when love and closeness are reciprocated. True love and closeness does not require a return.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.
I thought of how God loves us so much that the Son of God
died even for those who deny and reject Him.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Our selfish human nature expects love and closeness to be
reciprocated before we commit ourselves to deeper love and
closeness. If we do not receive love and closeness in return
then we will lose and withdraw our love. This is not true
love. True love is unconditional even when not accepted and
returned.
A deeper insight into the love of God for me, leads me to
feel ashamed. Ashamed that I trust this love so little that
I worry about what the future holds. My weak human mind is
uplifted by the Holy Spirit. I realize that my future is in
His hands with His great love for me. Only by losing sight
of that love do I ever fear.
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things
are possible to him that believeth.
With tears I have often prayed. Lord, I trust you. Help me
with my lack of trust.
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed
on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Later I read this paragraph that jumped out at me as if it
was written just for me.
Because we are the gift of His Father, and the reward of His
work, Jesus loves us. He loves us as His children. Reader,
He loves you. Heaven itself can bestow nothing greater,
nothing better. Therefore trust. {DA 483.3}
Is your trust truly in Him or do you trust in the things of
this earth for security?
May we all find peace and unity in the soon coming of
IAUShUO (Ee-ah-oo-shoo-oh) Messiah, the Son of God.
Shabbat Shalom
Frank T. Clark
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