God’s deepest desire for us is that we would be rooted and grounded in love, that we would know the height and depth and width and breadth of the love of Christ, which surpasses understanding.
The Bible says God is love, so we can never be comfortable with God if we don’t also get comfortable with love.
If we are rooted and grounded in love and experience every dimension of God’s love, then we are filled with God’s fullness. That’s where our intimacy with Him thrives. When you’re living from fullness, you’re no longer living from measure. Your supply is beyond sufficient; it’s abundant.
Love is the centre of life that holds all things together. The Apostle Paul calls it the “most excellent way” (1 Corinthians 12:21). Many choose to live in fear and restlessness, yet, we know that “God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).
As we have seen again and again, intimacy is about loving God for who He is. That’s the invitation of Christ. By just being with Him, we learn how to see His face and hear His voice.
We become what we behold, just as in the garden Adam and Eve saw, heard, felt, experienced, and encountered the Father as those made in His image. They gazed at Him and were like Him. They were one with Him in intimacy.
Whatever you’re facing today, I want to encourage you to take a moment to receive God’s love. His good thoughts toward you outnumber the sand on the seashore. Ask, the Father, “what do You see when You see me? What do You think about when You think of me?” When we enter into what God speaks over us, we get more than an encounter; we get a lifestyle of love.
adapted blog by Leif Hetland 28.7.2021