You
can not have God in part, deny His love, deny His mercy, deny His grace.
The
myriad facets of God are unending and can not be numbered.
God’s
love is His being.
He
desires for us to KNOW Him which means that we are constantly seeking Him,
constantly with Him, in communion with Him, and abiding in Him.
We
can never fully know Him here but it is His desire for us to always reaching
for that purpose.
Knowing
God is the intimate knowledge that is pictured in a marriage: complete union of
two becoming one.
His
love is drawing us into that union with Him complete full and wholly His.
His
desire is for us to love Him which is to know Him which is to live in that
love, always seeking to be more and more drenched and soaked in it.
Our
purpose is to live in that love and to have so much of it that it spills out
into others so that they are then drawn to Him as well.
If
what we do say think or feel for one another is not out of a complete love then
it is not God.
If
what we do say think and feel for one another is out of love then it is of
God.
To
love one another is what God desires.
To
deny love is to deny God.
Love
that is God is pure and gives out care compassion kindness and fairness and
does not seek for it’s own satisfaction.
It simply gives without regard to any outcome.
So
to know God is to love God, to know love is to know God.
To
know and love God is to love mankind – together and individually – all
mankind.
God
is love and His love is towards us regardless of who or what we are or ever
have been or will be.
Some
people find this very uncomfortable.
Thinking about how God has so many facets
and so many layers and so much beyond what we can ever know but that He reveals
Himself to us in so many ways: His glory, His majesty, His love, His justice,
His mercy, His grace, His sovereignty, His covenant-ness, His beauty. All of who God is so much more than we could
ever fathom. But if we think about it
and about those facets and layers we get a picture that gets more and more
clear. We get to ‘see’ Him in His glory
- bit by bit it comes into focus.
Meditating on all of this just gives me so much comfort and excitement
to know that there is so much more to know of Him. I mean the biblical kind of KNOW-ing like He
wants from us.
This is hard because some of us only accept
portions of God, the parts that fit into our ‘picture’ of Him, or the parts
that we are comfortable with. He meets
us where we are and loves us, but He wants us to understand how much more there
is of Him. That He is glory, majesty,
love, justice, mercy, grace, sovereignty, covenant, beautiful, and on and on
and on. His nature is love, far beyond
any kind of love we can conceive of. And
as His children, His ambassadors, His bride, our view of Him must expand
because He desires us to know him so well that we can portray Him, and better
represent Him here to others. It all
boils down to one thing: We are to love.
So anyway thought I’d share a little of
that.
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