“I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another”
John 13: 34-35 (AMP)
God’s love towards us is four-dimensional. The Holy Spirit praying through Paul for the Church, prayed that we “May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” Ephesians 3:18-20 (KJV). The Greek word for knowledge is “Epignosis”, which means precise and true knowledge; this knowledge is a revelation that brings transformation impacting one’s behavior and actions. We are to know the love of Christ that is beyond the senses. God is love and the source of love.
In Jeremiah 31:3 God says, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love”. God is eternity and His love is endless and cannot fail. He now lives in us by His Spirit as a witness, loving the world through us. This means we love men by the spirit of God, so it is not by might nor by your power. 1 John 4:11-12 says, “Beloved, if God so loved us [in this incredible way], we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us” (AMP). All God wants to do is to love the world through you, and all you have to do is to avail yourself. Freely you have received the love of God so freely you give. Remember, “as He is, so are we in this world” 1 John 4:17 (AMP). The Bible says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever” Hebrews 13:8 (NKJV). Practice manifesting the love of God in every place, drawing men and women to Christ to the glory of the Father in Jesus’ name
PRAYER / CONFESSION
Dear Father, I thank you for shedding your love in my heart to distribute to my world. I am persuaded that nothing shall be able to separate me from your love which is in Christ Jesus my Lord.
WISDOM NUGGET “Beloved, let us [unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves [others] is born of God and knows God [through personal experience].” 1 John 4:7 (AMP).