{"id":2304,"asset_id":2616,"title":"God Is Love - Oswald Chambers","alias":"god-is-love-oswald-chambers","introtext":"<h1>God Is Love - Oswald Chambers<\/h1>\r\n<div class=\"rich-text [&amp;_img]:w-full sm:[&amp;_img]:w-[revert-layer] prose lg:prose-lg prose-headings:text-stone-900 prose-headings:font-pt-serif-pro prose-h2:font-normal prose-h3:font-normal prose-h4:font-bold prose-h4:font-pt-sans-pro prose-p:text-stone-700 prose-ul:text-stone-700 prose-ol:text-stone-700 prose-a:text-stone-900 prose-a:underline hover:prose-a:underline !max-w-none text-base lg:text-2xl font-normal text-white\/80\"><em>\"The world does not encourage you to sing, but God does. Song is the sign of an unburdened heart; so sing your songs of love freely, rising ever higher and higher into a fuller understanding of the greatest, grandest fact on the stage of time\u2014God is love.\"<\/em><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"after:block after:absolute after:top-0 after:right-0 after:bottom-0 after:left-0 after:w-full after:h-full after:bg-[#BDC7D0]\/50 after:mix-blend-multiply before:block before:absolute before:top-0 before:right-0 before:bottom-0 before:left-0 before:w-full before:h-full before:bg-gradient-to-b before:from-black\/30 before:via-black\/20 before:to-black\/30\">&nbsp;<\/div>\r\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.odbm.org\/globalassets\/q0612_m.jpeg?format=webp&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"141\" class=\"h-full w-full absolute top-0 right-0 bottom-0 left-0 object-cover\" style=\"float: left;\" loading=\"eager\" hspace=\"10\/\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one but God could have revealed&nbsp;<em>that<\/em>&nbsp;to the world, for we all see nothing but its contradiction in our own limited experience. From shattered and broken lives, from caverns of despair where fiends rather than men seem to live, come the apparent contradiction to any such statement. No wonder the carnal mind, the merely intellectually cultured, considers us foolish, mere dreamers talking of love when murder, war, famine, lust, pestilence, and selfish cruelty are abroad in the earth.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, oh, the beauty of the Abraham-like faith that dares to place the center of its life, confidence, action, and hope in an unseen and apparently unknown God. Such faith says, \u201cGod is love,\u201d in spite of all appearances to the contrary; it says, \u201cThough He slay me, yet will I trust Him\u201d (Job 13:15). Such faith is counted for righteousness.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Look back over your own history, as revealed to you by grace, and you will see one central fact growing large\u2014God is love. No matter how often your faith in such an announcement was clouded, no matter how often the pain and suffering of the moment made you speak carelessly, this statement has carried its own evidence most persistently\u2014God is love. In the future,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimtoday.org\/a-prayer-for-when-i-am-worried-about-the-future\/\">when trial and difficulties await you<\/a>, do not be fearful. Whatever and whoever you may lose faith in, do not let this faith slip from you\u2014God is love. Whisper it not only to your heart in its hour of darkness, but here in your corner of God\u2019s earth and man\u2019s great city. Live in the belief of it; preach it by your sweetened, disciplined, happy life; sing it in consecrated moments of peaceful joy; sing until the world around you&nbsp;is wrought&nbsp;to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.&nbsp;(Percy Bysshe Shelley)<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The world does not encourage you to sing, but God does. Song is the sign of an unburdened heart; so sing your songs of love freely, rising ever higher and higher into a fuller understanding of the greatest, grandest fact on the stage of time\u2014God is love.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.odbm.org\/en\/spiritual-beliefs\/god-trinity\/god-is-love?fbclid=IwY2xjawQFQaxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe4HpGYXsChXsK6udzAq_A_oyEgm_X1yk0BpDoz4Nk6WxUgMX0RsJdQRIjBMw_aem_bAbTrhzROV3N8rPNmIp1_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>","fulltext":"","state":1,"catid":"8","created":"2026-02-20 14:16:29","created_by":"873","created_by_alias":"","modified":"2026-02-20 14:16:29","modified_by":null,"checked_out":null,"checked_out_time":null,"publish_up":"2026-02-20 14:16:29","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":1,"ordering":null,"metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":null,"metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"1","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}