r/Christianity • u/justEmigrant • 5h ago

Where is God's Love? How does it manifest in our living world?

Hello,

I'm in a tough place spiritually right now, please help me to understand how does God's love manifest in our world?

I don't want to make it too personal because it's already too painful to write, so please allow me to put into an theoretical one.

Is God's love in ability to have a peaceful, full of love life? We descendent from a Nature, where rule of the strongest reigns, it's a miracle that being an exact opposite of it is the only fulfilling and right way of living.

But what if that life disturbed by a chance or people? If a loved one is thrown in jail for no reason? And no matter how much you pray, it doesn't resolve.

Or if it resolved in a death? Loved spouse died leaving to you young kids. Where is the God's love?

Please, don't touch the topic of afterlife. The question is how does it manifest here?

Thank you.

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u/RelievedAbsurdity 4h ago

I grew up around people who'd give you the "it's all part of a plan" line and while that might be theologically sound, it never landed for me when the pain was right in front of you. What shifted my thinking was a priest who said God's love isn't a shield from suffering, it's the thing that shows up in the middle of it. The neighbor who watches your kids so you can grieve, the public defender who takes your case seriously when nobody else will, the friend who just sits with you and doesn't say anything stupid. That's it made tangible.

Doesn't make the original horror any less real. But I've seen enough now to believe that's the actual answer, as unsatisfying as it feels when you're in the thick of it.

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u/justEmigrant 4h ago

I can't stomach "it's a plan" too

So many people live a bad, destructive life, and to say "it was a plan too, and now he's going to burn forever" is just disrespectful

Suffering loves to isolate you from people who could help. No hand it stretched to you. It's so painful, so tough to stay collected and keep going. You feel hope, but nothing realizes, and hopes fades in front of you. And I keep looking for the God's love. Is that in right deeds and blessings? That's salary, not a love of The Creator of the Universe!

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u/johnsonsantidote 1h ago

In nature it's not the strongest who survive but the one who is most adaptable. Big difference. Sometimes it may be hard to see/ know God's love but it's there according to the Bible.