ABIDE - DAY 16
Love comes from the source!
Remember Agape love is unconcerned with the self and concerned with the greatest good of another. Agape isn’t born just out of emotions, feelings, familiarity, or attraction, but from the will and as a choice. Agape requires faithfulness, commitment, and sacrifice without expecting anything in return… It is completely unconditional.
Years ago I heard Papa say that this verse would mark my life forever. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:8. For many years I have read and reread that verse and summarized what I felt it meant and have tried to apply the principles received of being love for others. Not until only recently has He begun to bring a whole new revelation of this verse to me.
He is… the very embodiment of unconditional love and He lives in us. He is love and He is the very source by which we love from.
Let’s read:
Jesus was praying for us….
John 17
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
In vs. 25, Jesus said the world has not “known” You, but I have “known” You…. The word used here was one to describe intimacy. If you think about true intimacy - it is a personal private connection between 2 parties that produces life.
This is the very connection that Jesus paved the way for each of us to have with our Heavenly Father. He is the source of our love and that intimate connection is the only true place for us to receive and then pour out unconditional love from.
It is Gods heart, His true desire to have this intimacy with each one of us.
We are to ABIDE in this place of intimacy with our Father…
Remember Agape love is unconcerned with the self and concerned with the greatest good of another. Agape isn’t born just out of emotions, feelings, familiarity, or attraction, but from the will and as a choice. Agape requires faithfulness, commitment, and sacrifice without expecting anything in return… It is completely unconditional.
Years ago I heard Papa say that this verse would mark my life forever. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4:8. For many years I have read and reread that verse and summarized what I felt it meant and have tried to apply the principles received of being love for others. Not until only recently has He begun to bring a whole new revelation of this verse to me.
He is… the very embodiment of unconditional love and He lives in us. He is love and He is the very source by which we love from.
Let’s read:
Jesus was praying for us….
John 17
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
In vs. 25, Jesus said the world has not “known” You, but I have “known” You…. The word used here was one to describe intimacy. If you think about true intimacy - it is a personal private connection between 2 parties that produces life.
This is the very connection that Jesus paved the way for each of us to have with our Heavenly Father. He is the source of our love and that intimate connection is the only true place for us to receive and then pour out unconditional love from.
It is Gods heart, His true desire to have this intimacy with each one of us.
We are to ABIDE in this place of intimacy with our Father…
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