The theme throughout all of Scriptures is God loving mankind
and His intense desire to save us.
Knowledge is wonderful - so is doctrine. Yet the purpose of it is so I can know the
Truth. And through the Truth, know I can
approach God and have complete access to Him now and forever.
Through our access then, we increase in knowledge of Him
resulting in a greater understanding of Him.
As a short testimony, I want to say that for God to get
through to me His one goal for my very soul has been and is a miracle.
I know me better than anyone on this planet. And I know God knows us better than anyone on
this planet. The "me" I lived
with much of my life was about so many things other than apprehending the great
Love of God and the peace we really have with Him through Jesus Christ and the
blood of His cross.
Gary's Dad use to have a list on Saturdays of all the work
he wanted the children to do. Gary never
knew the love of his earthly father - he never told him he loved him until he
was 40 something years old and he even
had to ask for that information. It just
proves that true love is more than information about love - the true love of
God is when He Himself reaches the innermost being.
There truly is something to knowing the depths of God's love
else Paul would not have penned the prayer in Ephesians 3 that we would ALL apprehend by the power of the
Holy Spirit the length, the breadth, the depth, the height and to KNOW the LOVE
of Christ that surpasses knowledge.
I look back on my life and know that I, in many ways, did
not capture the ultimate of God's grace.
Nor was I certainly apprehending the GREAT LOVE wherewith He has loved
us. I know this because of all the
struggles I had with self-rejection and hatred due to a serious lie I carried
about a birth defect. And also, the lies
I carried about what it meant to "work for God." Oh that list went on.
Yes, I did ministry - worked in church life and different
venues of service. And again, sometimes
underneath those things were little "tapes" running in the background
that God so wanted to erase forever. In
my walk through this life, many still have those "tapes" that do run
in the background having to do with the reality of Truth not being deeply
rooted in our beings. Truth is
Love. Love is Truth.
Yes, I am convinced by the Lord that He desires His Words of
Life to reach the core of our being resulting in the absolute wonder of Him as
Love. His very reason for dying for
mankind was solely LOVE and nothing else.
This Word dwelling in us richly as Colossians shares is the
transformation we all desire.
May this be the glorious, glorious goal of our heart - He
will surely change our lives when we KNOW the Great Love of God. And Paul wrote this too, "The goal of
instruction is Love."
"Dear Father,
grant us to KNOW the deep, deep, deep Love that You alone are! Grant us to understand the goal of all these
things we know and have heard. Grant us
to truly KNOW and understand this Person WHO dwells in us - that You ARE the
peace of God - that You are ALL we shall ever need - and that you alone are the
hope of all things. Cause your body to
cease striving and truly KNOW You dear Father and Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. Amen and Amen."
Sue Gaither
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