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The Good News, we are to constantly announce by our lives, is that God is the Love. This is illuminated by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In this Light, following our Lord's Great Commandments of Loving All is less obedience to law and more a union with the Greatest Love which is our Source, Driving Force, and Ultimate Fulfillment.

Our suffering world may reject this news. If God is Love, why are we constantly surrounded by suffering? In a world shrunk by modern communications, the global view of this suffering becomes staggering. As we look back in history, we become horrified at the continually transpiring suffering.

We see individuals wastefully stripped of health and even made mindless; loosing their very essence. We may measure global hunger by the number of children dying every hour. Searching the not too distant past, we gasp in almost disbelief at the Holocaust happening in the beautiful countryside of shrines and great spires; earthly symbols of the Greatest Love.

How do we explain all this suffering within the jurisdiction of the Greatest Love, to our suffering world? What is the Almighty doing? If God is all-knowing and everywhere, powerful but just, in control but not domineering then why all the suffering? Is the suffering a tempering, testing, or even punishing by a Heavenly Father? Is the suffering the reaction of the Greatest Love to creation's rebellion?

Surely the Greatest Love permeates creation and feels every pain of our suffering world as Love's own. How could the Greatest Love ever wish or issue suffering as a means for any end? The Greatest Love would apply the least control and offer the Greatest Freedom. Creation has received the Greatest Freedom of all; the determination of its own fate. The Greatest Love has even relinquished knowledge of the future; for creation to determine.

The explanation of the excessive suffering is found in understanding why creation, enabled by this Greatest Freedom, is not more in union its very Source, the Greatest Love. Some suffering may ever be the consequence of our competing individual freedoms. However, most suffering simply reflects a lack of returned love. So let us ever strive to better reflect the Greatest Love; the Light we see in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Let us be such a reflection as to become the Good News that can not be denied.


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This page last updated on 3-21-2023.