God's Unconditional Love

GOD’s

unconditional

LOVE

Written By:

DOUGLAS BEATTY

Edited By:

EVELYN BARTSCH

DEBBY WARREN

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© 2013 by Douglas Beatty. All rights reserved.

Edited By:

Evelyn Bartsch

Debby Warren

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/19/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2038-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2037-3 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2036-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013912916

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Contents

1       Tug-A-War

2       The Loss of a Love One

3       The Unwanted Child

4       Divorce

5       Perfect World

6       The Love of a Sinner

7       Battle Field

8       Why

9       Where was God

10       Who Cares

11       A Darken Heart

12       Forgiveness

13       Demons

14       Faith

15       A Deadly Weapon

16       A Mothers Plead

17       One for the Road

18       A Fallen Twig

Introduction

The events in this book each and every one of us have gone, are going, or will go through at least one of these hardships in a lifetime. Maybe right at this moment you know someone who has or is going through one of these events.

To some these events are small; they’ve gotten past them with no problem or interruption in their lives. Yet on the other hand, there are those who just cannot handle any kind of crisis in their lives. You know them; they are the ones who get upset over anything small or big making them have to change their way of thinking or living.

When these events do come into our lives, we want to blame others whether they are friend or family for what have happen to us. The sad part we even blame God. Nor family, friend, or God had anything to do with our situation.

It is hard for us to admit we did anything wrong. In the field of therapy, they call this denial, not wanting to admit doing anything on our part causing all this hardship. The mind reminisce all events having taken place causing this perfect world to turn upside down. No where can the mind fine fault in itself. Therefore it starts to point fingers at anyone, or anything to put the blame on.

Until we come to peace with the situation at hand, there’s no way we will ever have harmony with ourselves or others. This is where the love of God comes in. Give God all the Glory an Praise, and turn your burdens over to him. Through prayer God can handle any crisis that may or has come into our life. There are two things God put into our heart to help us get through this: Love and Forgiveness.

Amen

1

Tug-A-War

Remember the time you sat at a picnic table in a park and there was no one around to interfere with your thoughts. You looked around the park and off in the distance are two dogs playing with a stick. On the other side of the park kids are playing tug-a-war with a brand new rope. You know this to be a new rope, for it was too white to be an old rope.

As you watched everyone play, you start to wonder how anyone can be so happy, while your world has turned itself upside down. There are many reasons why this perfect world you were enjoying now has turned itself upside down. Let’s start off with the most common reasons: A love one has passed away, laid off from a job, you only had two more years before retirement. No money to pay your outstanding bills. You are about to lose the home where you raised your children, now they have repossessed one of your cars.

Now all this stress is eating you up inside. As you watch the kids play tug-a-war with their rope, you fell like someone is playing tug-a-war with your soul. The rope is pulled so tight it has your stomach all tied in knots, and your head feels like it is about to explode. At this point you just want to scream and cry out, WHY. The saddest part about all this confusion is we don’t understand the WHY. And why this had to happen to us. Everything was going just the way we had planned. The only excuse one can come up with is God does not love us anymore. It is his fault a love one has passed away, especially a spouse, or a small child, who have gone before their time. Why were you laid off from a job you had for eighteen years? How are you going to support your family, and pay the bills with no money coming in? You believe this has happened because God turned his back on you.

Everywhere you turn people are telling you everything will get better; something is bound to come up! Just hang in there. Now here is the magic word. Hang. With this tug-a-war going on, the only answer is to hang oneself. Right now you are trying to ease the pain with drugs and alcohol, and just for a moment you fell no pain, yet as soon as you sober up you realize the pain has not gone away.

You don’t want to see a Doctor; he will give you pills, you can’t afford, nor do you want to lay on a couch in some office, telling him or her your life history. Nor do you want to talk to a Pastor; for it was God’s fault, you are in this house of pain in the first place.

Right before you come to your rope’s end an old friend, or someone you just meet comes into your life. They invite you to join them in Church on Sunday. Now this rope just got much tighter. This was the last place you wanted to go for help. Now God has brought another burden upon your life. Everyone you meet is asking you to join them in church and you don’t know how to answer them without losing their friendship.

Now the tug-a-war has two teams. One team is called Christianity, this team has several players. They are Holy, Hope, Salvation, Love, Faith, Forgiveness, and the team mate holding the end of the rope is Christ. The other team is called Ungodliness; the players on this team are Hate, Temptation, Liar, Dishonest, Unfaithful, and the team mate at the end of the rope is Satan. And tied right in the center of this rope they are pulling on is your soul. At this point in your life, Satan’s team is winning.

Then one day, you have no way of explaining why you go to church. At first you didn’t know all the where, when, and why’s. Yet you went and to your amazement stood a couple at the door to welcome you into the House of the Lord. As you made your way into the church you see your friend. He walked over to you, and was blessed you found your way to church. You went into the Sanctuary and found a place to sit. It was the last row of pews, that way if things did not go well you could get up and leave without anyone knowing you left. Halfway through the sermon you are hypnotized by the words the Pastor is saying. The sermon was Tug-A-War. Everything the Pastor was speaking about hit hard on your heart. Tears came to your eyes as he called for all sinners to come to the Altar, and have God come into our lives, and ask for forgiveness. And through Faith all your pain will be healed.

At that very moment, the Christianity Team started to pull ahead of the Ungodliness Team.

It was not easy, yet as time went on you found yourself walking closer to our loving God. Then one Sunday you gave your soul to God, and asked the Pastor, To baptize you in the name of Christ. As soon as you came up from the water, that rope snapped, the Christianity Team remained standing; the Ungodliness Team fell flat on their behinds. Satan was very upset with his team for they had lost another soul to Christ.

Then one day you got