by Robert Anthony
March 11th 2025
God is good. It's an irrefutable fact. God loves us and doesnt stop loving us no matter what. We turn our backs on Him but He never turns His back on us. This is the essence of the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. It was all revealed when Jesus came to us.
I was about 25 years old when I realized how much God loved me. It's not that I hadn't heard it before but truly knowing in the deepest part of "Robert" that God loves me and wont ever stop - this miracle and gift happened throughout my mid-twenties. I wrote about it in my book (Jesus did not start a Religion).
Something amazing had changed in me - looking back I can see now and I was never the same again.
And then I wanted to tell everyone about this amazing thing I had found! Because if God truly loves us, and people would believe and trust Him - the whole world would change!
And God does love us amazingly. But there are a lot of details to what that means. A Huge and fundamental part of His love is the free-will or individual/unique will that He gave us, to choose. We can choose His love or otherwise: to destroy ourselves or others, to war against His way, to war against His will, etc. Its not that His love comes with strings attached but we have a tremendous power given to us, in that we get to choose.
He says, "I love you. Let me lead you into freedom and truth and abundance." But what if we instead refuse? He is patient and merciful, Yes, without a doubt. But what if year after year we repay His kindness with wrath and His mercy with transgression? What is God to do with us? We are given the power to choose.
It has been written, "Choose life, that you might live."
This is the same God, the God of love, that I have been telling the world about for more than 20 years now. To anyone who would listen, Im telling them, "The whole Bible is true, God loves us! We should get to know Him!!" How do we let someone love us but from a distance? For love to be love it must also be personal, intimate and vulnerable.
But our hearts are hard. They are. Many will try and argue the point just reading the words but that more or less proves the hardness of our hearts. And I am especially referring to those believers as I write these things - those who should have received His love and been changed.
If our hearts broke for those suffering, those lost and alone, those carrying a lifetime of grief and pain, those afraid - you would think there would be a response or a greater response? Jesus' response was to go to them, to give to them and love them. Often times to love is to give (give of our time, give of our emotions, give of our wealth, give of ourselves in general).
And Christians are loving. It's not that we have failed completely - but the question I would ask of us is, "Why have we lost so much of this generation?" It's commonly known that the young people are refusing to gather in our churches, many of them simple have no desire for God or belief in Him whatsoever. So... if we are so loving and doing such a great job in our Christianity? Why have we lost so much of these young people?
For certain, we are all so busy. And what are we so busy doing? If all the pastors and ministers and paid workers of the gospel are too busy to win the lost and convince these young people to Jesus? Who is going to do it? I thought we paid them (tithes and offerings) to minister? I difficult conversation to have, I realize.
The simple truth of the matter is, "Jesus didn't do it the way we do it". You have probably read this before in something else I have written, I commonly say it. Jesus went out to the people and loved them, and gave! We force the people to come to us, and if they are lucky, we will love them. And unfortunately this attitude we have adopted from our hardened hearts has permeated nearly every aspect of "Christian" life in America. And at the root of it all is....
What do you think is the sin hidden in of these hearts of stone we have?
Jesus in Politics
I have written on this subject so many times throughout my life. And I am more aware now than ever about how accurate of a picture the Lord has given me on the subject. Does Jesus belong in politics? ABSOLUTELY! But what exactly does that mean and HOW is He involved with politics? The devil, in this case is not involved in these details, but our God is Very involved in these details.
I fear we are dragging Jesus around with us, or at least trying to. We want American Politics to change and so, I fear, we have dragged Jesus into what we want of Him in US Politics. I fear we have done so without even asking Him how He would like to be involved. I am becoming more and more convinced that many of those speaking Jesus' name the loudest and with the most conviction are doing so without Him. And I have lots of proof.
Don't get me wrong. I love watching everyone praying in the White House and at HUD and throughout our nations most powerful places. There are things going on throughout the Trump Administration that be truly breath-taking. My message here isn't to the politicians but to the Church. We must be able to keep holy what is holy and separate out what is devilish and of the world. Not everything of this world will be redeemed.
Do we stop to consider what is on God's mind? In all our politicking and positioning, in all our power-grabs and clever strategies, are we asking God what He is concerned about? I think walking with Jesus 101, like the very fundamentals of walking with God rest upon "Thy will be done". Some of us are pretty smart, some of us are incredibly charismatic and gifted, some of us have skills to solve some of great and threatening problems, even without God, but I am still convinced: God knows better.
In Closing: We are The Light of the World
I absolutely Praise God for what He has given us in The Trump Administration - but they are doing their job, perhaps we should be doing ours.
Someone needs to go to the sick and diseased, sure RFK Jr. is particapating in that but as a governor and ruler, someone else needs to go with salvation and this gospel! Some among us need to go to the widows and orphans, the foster-kids and at-risk youth, government officials will particapate in their capacity but who will give them The Only Hope for eternity!? The prisons, the hospice facilities and elderly homes, the juvenile halls and youth detention facilities, the mental hospitals and rehab facilities, the halfway houses and other group homes - they all need the Light of Christ.
The schools might be trying to keep Jesus out but we still need to win these children of the love of God! They need to hear about Him. Who will go to them?
But maybe we haven't been set free yet? Maybe we know religion and dogma so much better than the love of God? How can we go unless we are sent? And if we havent been sent perhaps we need to ask of ourselves and ask God, Why haven't you sent us?
The scripture says, "He will give us New Hearts. Hearts of Flesh and Blood. Hearts that break. Hearts that yearn to go after the broken and bind them up!"
Jesus warned the (false) religious folk, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves."
As we sit at His feet and learn from Him, as we lose our lives to His kingdom and lend Him our trust, we are changed - God reveals Himself to us, we know His love and we are never again the same.
I fear many of the teachers, even the most esteemed among us are simply gifted and powerful people who have never truly come to know the love of The Father. If they loved Him, they would love us. If they received His love, they would have been changed.
I will write to you more, precious Church. YOU ARE LOVED.
And it's better than we know.
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