Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Know how God loves you

“This is Love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” 1 John 4: 10. We all want to say how much we love God. But love is not real without the substance of Love. God is Love. To love God, is to express God towards God and that is manifesting His nature towards others. The substance of Love in us is our understanding of the love of God for us. Without this understanding, our love is but a mere human empty affection. Understanding is wisdom, and wisdom is the father of Love. God is wisdom, and Love is His Son. So what the above scripture is telling us is that Wisdom loves us enough to send Love to us, so that Love could wash us clean from our sins, for “love covers multitude of sins” 1 Peter 4: 8.

Before you can know how much God loves you, you must know how God loves you. The Love that God has for you is the love that He has for Himself. God is Love. God loves you by seeing Himself in you. It is like seeing your own self in jail, and seeking to be rescued. As you were imprisoned into sin, God looking at us saw Himself in jail. As we are the essence of God in nature, He never tried to rescue the old self, but the divine Self within you. That is the divine Self that was lost in consciousness through sin.

For that reason, Jesus came, and took upon himself, through consciousness, our old and false self. This is the meaning of “He became sin for us, to condemn sin in the sinful man”. Jesus destroyed the old false self on the cross and the gate of the jail we were in was open. This is salvation. Salvation is the manifestation of Love towards Himself in Man. When the jail gate was opened, our true divine Self came out as the “New Self”, which is created to be like God” Ephesians 4: 24. It is Jesus who made this possible.

God loves you. He recreated Himself in you by renewing your consciousness through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Your new “Self” is the very nature of God. God is Love. You are Love. You are not trying to Love. If you are not able to love, it is because you haven’t fully understood how God loves you.

However, today you have that understanding. Keep in mind that Love is your original and divine ‘Self”. You are Love. You express Love naturally. You are not trying to learn how to Love. It is best that we recognize more than we need to learn. All that you need to do is to identify yourself as Love.

Begin from today to confess the “Christ-Love” in you. Do it daily and continually with faith. The word you speak will be crystallized into your soul, and will begin to defeat sin, error, sickness, depression, failure, and all negativity in your life. You are Love.
Love,

Guerdy

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