Where is the Love?

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan really makes one wonder about the level of compassion and concern that the government has for its people. For an entire city to be subjected to contaminated water and nobody be responsible for doing anything about it is a travesty. However, I believe its simply another indication of the ineptitude and incompetence of our governmental system, regardless of the level (local, state or national). But the question I want to raise today is, Where is the Love? Where is the love and concern for just the general welfare of people? Where is the Love?

Everybody is looking for Love, whether they realize it or not. The pain, the anger, the frustration, the violence, the murders: all of these are cries for Love. People aren't giving up on life and throwing in the towel simply because they don't want to live, they're looking for Love. But what most people don't realize is that in their quest for Love, they're actually looking for God. The bible says very clearly that God is Love (1John 4). What people really need and long for, whether they are fully conscious of it or not, is God, because He is Love.

God has designed every human being to have a personal relationship with Him. This is a fact because every human individual is made in the image of God (Genesis 1). The challenge is that this Divine Image can only be activated and actualized in concert and connection to a relationship with God. In other words, you can't fulfill who you were made to be if you're not intimately connected to the One who made you. This is where the majority of humanity is missing it, particularly in Western society. We live in a world that truly believes that we don't need God to survive. Oh sure, the concept of God, the theoretical existence of God, is not a bad idea; but it's not a necessity to my functioning as a human being. Wrong. Then people may "intellectually" believe in God, but aren't convinced that they need a relationship with God, let alone need to be sold out and surrendered to God, in order to be happy. Wrong again. This is why there is such a love deficit, because people are trying to be functional and successful in relationships without being in relationship with He who is Love and established the blueprint for loving relationships in the first place.

I can assure you saints, the days of people thinking that they can survive without God are about to change. Be not deceived. I know everything seems relatively rosy right now, but in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "we've got some difficult days ahead". When those difficult days come upon us, it will be incumbent upon the church to demonstrate and be a living witness of the Love of God. We won't have time to judge, we won't have time to condemn, all we must do is serve and love. Prayerfully at that time, the world won't look at the church and ask, Where is the Love?