God wrote His story in a book known as the Bible, and the story can be summarised in three words, which are: God is Love. When you look up the definition of love in the Bible, and you substitute the word love, with God, what you get is below.
Love according to 1 Cor.13:4-8; Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. When you now substitute the word Love, with God, what you get is, God loves man, despite the fact that man keeps disappointing God, and He knows that, but God is patient, kind, does not boast, is not proud, does not dishonour man. God is selfless (He died for our sins, took on the punishment we deserved, upon Himself). God is not easily angered, and He keeps no record of our wrongs, once we are repentant. God does not delight in evil. He is the Spirit of Truth. God always protects, always trusts, God always hopes (that man will change, repent, even to the last moment). God always perseveres, and finally according to Psalm 62 verse 12; and with you, Lord, is unfailing love”. God loves man unfailingly. His love for man is forever. He created man out of His Love and He rescued (saved, redeemed) man, because of His Love and through His Love, that is in Christ Jesus.
God’s story is already written and completed, finished, according to John 19:28-30; Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. However, there are so-called men of God, servants of God, who believed that the story is not finished and are adding to it, forgetting that God had said something about this in Matthew 24:4-8; Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumours of wars but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.
The story of God is a living story, that is being acted out by successive generations. Man is a bit part player on the stage, in the play, the dramatization of God’s story. Each man’s role is temporary, with God, the only Actor with a permanent role. When certain bit part players claim to have visions from God, in which they claim to have been instructed to construct mega structures to “glorify” God, one wonders which script they are reading. When you go back three thousand years ago and consider David and Solomon who constructed a megastructure to glorify God (Temple), God said He didn’t need it, even though God appreciated the sentiment of these bit part players, and allowed the construction to go ahead and be completed. Of course, this megastructure didn’t last for more than 400 to 1000 years. The only thing that lasts is the Love of God. Various religious denominations have down the ages embarked on similar redundant activities, from the Catholic church to the new age African Christian evangelic movements of the present age. There are regularly CEO (popes, general overseers, founders, presidents etc)of these organizations competing with each other in the race to build megastructures, whose length of time would be recorded by posterity. Despite the fact that God had specifically stated in His story in the book of Isaiah chapter 58, verses 6-7, the kind of communion or fellowship that He desires, “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? This makes you wonder; from which script these bit part players are reading. You even have rulers, presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens embarking on prejudice and differential treatment of those different from themselves on the basis of geography, economic abilities, race and colour, that is oppression and injustice.
However, God being such a magnanimous God, allows these bit part players with their own script, their own company vision to go ahead with their plans and constructions, knowing fully well, that their megastructures (churches, border walls, roman empire, british empire, ussr/soviet union, united states, brexit, european union)are temporary, not lasting for more than a day or two in His sight, Psalm 90:3-6; You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” 4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: 6 In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. God is the only permanent actor in the stage play called “LIFE”. It is His Story. He is the main Actor, the Star of the show, the story has already been written, it is the book called The BIBLE, man cannot add to it or remove from it, no matter how hard he tries, no matter what gimmicks (“miracles” and “wonders”), he employs, no matter what visions he claims to have, Colossians 2:18; Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. God is Love, and He has finished His work (play), He doesn’t need helpers or workers to help Him to do what has already been done (Job chapters 38 and 39). It is finished.
