I've written before about the cavalier, overly casual way many of us approach God, as if God were our co-equal or our buddy. But while I think we would do well to recover a sense of awe about God, I would not want us to imagine God as simply distant, powerful, and terrifying. Both Old and New Testaments of the Bible insist that the awesome God who created heaven and earth is deeply concerned for all creation, as verses from one of today's psalms attest. "God heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds... God covers the heavens with clouds, prepares rain for the earth, makes grass grow on the hills. God gives to the animals their food, and to the young ravens when they cry." (Psalm 147)
Over and over the Bible is quite clear that God cares deeply for us. And while the life of Jesus' shows that God's love does not mean that life will always be a piece of cake, a basic, fundamental claim of the faith is that God loves us and wants good for us. What could be more wonderful? As the Apostle Paul says in his letter to the Romans, "If God is for us, who is against us?"
Amidst all the uncertainties and vagaries of life, what a wonderful thing to fall back on. God is for us. God loves us. Thanks be to God!
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