The older I get the more I realize that attempting to control fellow humans is evil. We have seen those who want to control! They lurk inside families, churches, nations, companies, clubs, neighborhoods, etc. They transform themselves into gods, but they are unlike the one true God, totally misunderstanding Him and how He functions in the world. The One in the universe who has a right to be The Controller is now revealed as the One who has rejected it (Philippians 2:5-8). God is love. Love gives space to choose and freedom to be. Love plants love so it can blossom. Love does not force; it invites. Love seeks to win with no other weapon than love.
“He left His Father’s throne above—So free, so infinite His grace—Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam’s helpless race: ’Tis mercy all, immense and free, For, O my God, it found out me! Amazing love! How can it be,That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?” —Charles Wesley
