Stolen Love Letters

By Wayne Harmon

The Bible is an abused and misused book. It was given to us by God to tell us about His love for us. As such, it can be understood only if we enter into the love relationship with Him He intends for each of us.

Sadly, there are many who have replaced God with the Bible. They have a “Bible Verse” for everything they say they believe. Yet, the closer you get to these people the more evident it becomes that they don’t know God’s heart.

They pray using certain Bible verses in an attempt to manipulate God into conforming to their wills. They say stupid things like, “If God did it for someone in the Bible He HAS to do it for me, too.”

(It’s funny. They say this about God healing Naaman of leprosy, but they don’t apply it God smiting Uzziah with the same disease.)

It’s like a crazy … nope … can’t use that word, “crazy”. It’s not politically correct or sensitive. Let’s try again. Here we go …

It’s like a Reality Challenged woman who watches her happily married neighbor and wishes she could have a husband like that. One day she breaks into her neighbor’s home and steals a shoebox of love letters the husband had written to his wife years ago when he was away.

The crazy, oops, sorry … habit …

The “Reality Challenged Lady”, RCL, begins reading the letters and soon begins to imagine they are written to her. She begins stalking her neighbor’s husband. Eventually she accosts him demanding that he do for her the things he had promised his wife in his letters.

Because he really is a good guy, he tries to get the RCL to understand that he has nothing to do with her. He doesn’t even know her. When she shows him the letters he realizes that she has been in his home and has stolen them from his wife.

At this point he calls the police and has her arrested.

I think this is the picture Jesus was showing us when He says,

“Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’” Matthew 7:21-23, (NLT)

Copyright 2014: Wayne Harmon