GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 15

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU…… ARE MY HIDING PLACE…Ps 32:7

JESUS, YOU……….GIVE BLESSINGS TO YOUR BELOVED IN MY  SLEEP ..Ps 127:2

JESUS, YOU………..YOU DIRECT MY STEPS…Prov 16:9

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 15:9

“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.”

We’re beginning chapter 22, “An In His Love” in the classic and beloved book, Abide in Christ, written in the 1800’s by Andrew Murray

Blessed Lord, enlighten our eyes to see properly the glory of this wondrous word.  Open to our meditation the secret chamber of Your love, that our souls may enter in and find their everlasting dwelling place.  How else will we know anything of a love that passes knowledge (Ephesians 3:19)?

Before the Savior speaks the Word that invites us to abide in His love, He first tells us what that love is.  What He says of it must give force to His invitation and make the thought of not accepting it an impossibility: 

“As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you” ~ ~ “AS THE FATHER HAS LOVED ME.”  How will we be able to form right conceptions of this love?  Lord, please teach us!  

John 4:8 ~ ~ “God IS love”

Love is His very being.  Love is not an attribute but the very essence of His nature, the center around which all His glorious attributes gather.  It was because He was love that He was the Father that there was a Son.  Love needs an object to whom it can give itself away, in whom it can lose itself, with whom it can make itself one.  Because God is love, there must be a Father and a Son.  The love of the Father to the Son is that divine passion with which He delights in the son and speaks:

“My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17).

The divine love is as a burning fire; in all its intensity and infinity it has but one object and but one joy, and that is the only begotton Son.  When we gather together all the attributes of God – His infinity, His perfection, His immensity, His  majesty, His omnipotence – and consider them but as the rays of the glory of His love, we still fail in forming any conception of what that love must be.  It is a love that passes knowledge (Ephesians 3:19).

Yet this love of God to His son must serve, O my soul, as the glass in which you are to learn how Jesus loves YOU!   As one of His redeemed ones, you are His delight, and all His desire is to you, with the longing of a love that is stronger than death and that many waters cannot quench.  His heart yearns after you, seeking your fellowship and your love.  Were it needed, He could die again to possess you.  As the Father loved the Son and could not live without Him – could not be God the blessed without Him –so Jesus loves you.  His life is bound up in yours; you are to Him inexpressibly more indispensable and precious than you ever can know.  You are one with Himself.  “As the Father has loved me, I also loved you.”  WHAT A LOVE!

It is an eternal love.  From before the foundation of the world – God’s Word teaches us this – the purpose has been formed that Christ would be the Head of His Church, that He would have a body in which His glory could be set forth.  In that eternity He loved and longed for those who had been given to Him by the Father, and when He came and told His disciples that He loved them, it was indeed not with a love of earth and of time but with the love of eternity.  It is with that same infinite love that His eye still rests upon each of us here seeking to abide in Him, and in each breathing of that love there indeed the power of eternity. 

“I have loved you with an everlasting love”  (Jeremiah 31:3).

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