A New Gestalt of God
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There is no name other than another name for God that will be equal to God; therefore love is another name for God. There is no name other than God that is equal to love. God is love. Love is God. There is no other God in the universe; there is no other love in the universe. God is the sole source of love. I John 4:7, 19 says, “Love comes from God...We love because he first loved us.”
If you have experienced love in your life, you have experienced the love of God. Thank God. If someone else loves you, it is because the love of God is flowing through that person to you. Thank God. If you love someone, it is because the love of God is flowing through you to that person. Thank God. Thank God for allowing his love to come into your lives. But recognize it for what it is; it is God’s love.
If you recognize God’s love for what it is, the love of your parents should not only draw you to your parents but it should draw you to God. The love of your children should draw you to God. The love of your spouse should cause you to love God more. The “love” of your pet should even be seen as the love of God and your natural response should be to thank God and love him in return.
All the experiences of life that you enjoy should be seen as a gift from God, an expression to you of his love. If you had a good time today, if you enjoy life---thank God, love God.
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“All the world loves a lover,” according to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then why doesn’t all the world love God? Because God, correctly understood, is a lover. He is not just any lover, but also the original lover, the world’s best lover, and the origin of all lovers.
Obviously, God has not been correctly understood. He has not been seen as the lover he is. Perhaps the problem is that love itself has not been correctly understood. For many, love is just a feeling, but true love is much more than a feeling. True love is an action.
A New Gestalt of God reaffirms God as a god of love. It shows how justice and grace combine to form his love. It shows the causes of the misunderstanding of God. It shows how a correct understanding of God can be reestablished.
What God ultimately wants is a loving relationship between himself and each one of his children. Do you love a lover? This book will help you understand God’s love better and help you become a better lover of God.
About the Author
Lester Carney is an ordained elder and has also been ordained as a credentialed minister of teaching. He taught for 17 years in elementary parochial schools in the Midwest. For the past 19 years, he has been working in the building services industry as an area manager. He has served the churches he has belonged to as a head elder, head deacon, Bible teacher, school board chairman, youth club leader, and lay preacher. He has two grown children, a daughter living in Minnesota and a son living in Tennessee. Lester is a native of Virginia, a migrant of Maryland, Washington, California, and Indiana, and is now a permanent resident of Wisconsin. He is the son of evangelist and church administrator Lester Carney, Jr. A New Gestalt of God is the first book in the series The Grace Restoration Project.