loving the Father is the greatest command and greatest goal of Christianity. even as the Son loved His father and did all things in love with and for him.
the commands, the law is only fulfilled by love. for love is the command. the royal law is love. all works are to be but an overflowing response to the love of god. every other work is childish work. love is manly work, mature work.
Jesus fulfills His commands in us by loving us to fullness. we love for god has fist loved us. God has immense love for His creation. the Father loves us even as he has loved His son. He wants to be one with us. He wants perfect reconciliation and intimacy and the cost that was paid for that is infinite. the cost of the sacrifice of Christ. the punishment of Christ.
it is not merely knowledge of reconciliation that counts but the deep and growing experience of intimacy in His presence that makes love real, not only to the mind but to the heart. for it is from the heart that our lives flow from. any real change and transformation starts at our core of our beings - our hearts.
abiding - keeping in the deep experience of the love of Jesus and the father is therefore the greatest command. He wants to pour out His love on us more than we want to receive His love. for it is only by His love that we can live right. only by His love can we be transformed into love and fulfill the great command and upholds the law.
he desires that we live right, that our lives be expressions of His love. he desires our love to be mature love.
the only way that love can mature is in the ever greater experience and revelation of the mighty love of God our Father
only this can give us the power to leave the world - the love of our father. if anyone loves the world the love of the Father is not in us. but if we keep experiencing the love of the Father, the love for the world will be left behind for a higher and greater joy.
Love must grow. love must increase and expand to take in all our spirit soul mind and strength yes filling our bodies which are to be temples of living Spirit.
all that matters is to receive and give out His love- for love is mighty. in love the power of the spirit is released. acting and responding out of love is the key to the release of the power of the spirit. 1 cor 13 the higher way that releases 1 cor 14 the gifts of the Spirit. the Spirit is a Spirit first of love (the fruit of the Spirit is first love) and manifests Himself when we love as He loves. when we consent to believe in love to know love and to act in love to practice love in practical tangible ways then is His Spirit activated alive and flowing in our lives.
in love we bond with God. in love we are made perfect in oneness with the nature of God. this love is Holy. it is incompatible with a flesh led life. we will never know how deep this love goes if we hold dear the pleasures of flesh and sin.
Let us be made one with God in love. to be filled with compassion. this is the highest order.
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