About a year ago, in the midst of a national economic crisis, I drove past a bank. Hanging on the outside of it's stones walls was a huge banner with the words "Still Lending." I haven't been able to stop thinking about that sign for a year...so I am finally writing.
This sign hung proudly on that bank because we were in such a time that even banks stopped lending money to people. It was difficult to get loans. People were losing jobs left and right, and the countrys seemed to be bone dry. It was something worth advertising...still lending.
When times get tough, and nothing seems to be going right, or money's tight, God is still lending. He may not be lending a cure for the cancer, a child for the barren womb, a job for the jobless...
His lending is more than that... it's comfort in the midst of pain, it's joy in the midst of sorrow, it's hope in the midst of hopelessness. His supply of love and these things never runs dry. Do we as a church offer this love? Could we hang a sign on our church that advertises, "Still Lending!" I realize that God is the supplier... but are we soaking it in...are we as a church overflowing from the love we're receiving.
Sure, we need to get it from God, people need to get it from God...but what about those who don't know him? Are we lending the love that leads them to a place a place of comfort, joy, peace, hope. God is still lending! Are we?
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