All you need is love.

In 1 Corinthians 13.8 God through the inspired writings of Paul tells us that Love never fails. I never connected the objections to this scripture to immaturity until the other day. 1 Cor. 13.11 finally made the connection for me. It reads, "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me."

God calls the man in the parable in Luke 12.20 a fool for trying to be rich in material wealth while being poor toward Godliness. God through Paul calls the church in Galatia fools in Galatians 3.1 in the more related issue of trading in the message of grace and mercy for the old message of the law, behaviors and non-behaviors.

When God says in Galatians 5.13-14 for us to serve one another in love and that the entire law is summed up in a single command, that being to "Love your neighbor as yourself, who is it that needs more specifics and wants to bring up a particular circumstance for judgement? Why it's the spritually immature person, isn't it?

When God says in Romans 13.8-10 that all the commandments are summed up with "Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." Who is it that these instructions aren't specific enough for except for the spiritually immature?

If I object and start trying to defeat the truth that is God's Word with analogies, illustrations or life events I magnify my immaturity by thinking my wisdom will somehow nullify or invalidate whatever part of the truth I am at odds with. All the questions the Sadducees, Pharisees and experts in the law had for Jesus never defeated the truth, but only served to show how immature they were in their thinking.

I remember the old saying from one of my high school teachers speaking of how naive young couples could sometimes be: "You can survive on love and cheese as long as the cheese holds out." The "get real" attitude this saying really communicates is that love is not enough.

God did not create the universe, says Hawking

In a new book, entitled The Grand Design, famous physicist Stephen Hawking asserts that,

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Of course, the first question that a Believer, such as myself, asks is - where did gravity come from? A cyclical, if not cynical, question from a non-believer may be - where did God come from?

I think the answer to that question is that God always was and always will be. I cannot imagine a beginning for God any more than I can imagine an end. I do believe that he set the universe going. The converse would be a very cold notion, devoid of that most precious thing: Love.