Hello Dear Reader,
Yesterday we discussed the incredibleness of God! The incredibleness of Love Himself. In 1st John chapter 3:1 we read from the Amplified Bible, " See what an (incredible) QUALITY of love that God has bestowed upon us, that we should be (permitted) to named, called and counted the children of God. And so we are...
Yes, beloved God is incredible far beyond anything we can ever dream and imagine which makes LOVE far beyond anything we could ever dream or imagine. God (Love) is incredible. But what makes Him so incredible is His QUALITY! The Quality of God or the Quality of LOVE that He is!
I remember an old Ford commercial they used to promote their cars. It said, "the QUALITY goes in, before the NAME goes on!" The idea was that they made their cars with the greatest perfection and highest standards before they would put their "name" upon it. Another words, the name was to be a reflection of that QUALITY!
The word quality means:
An attribute was originally a quality attributed, usually to a person or something personified; more recently it has meant a fundamental or innate characteristic: an attribute of God; an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing: character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence: high grade; superiority; excellence:
God's nature and person is of a distinctive character, that distinguishes Him above all others. He is of the finest grade of excellence that ever was. God (Love) is the highest grade, superior to all others in personality or character and of the highest excellence. Another words there is no higher love than God Himself. There is no higher experience than to be loved by God and filled with the highest most excellence love that He gives to us. When He loves us, He gives us who He is, Love Himself.
Beloved God's love is not something separate from Him. He can't give love without giving totally of who He is. So every act of love we receive, every impartation of that Love is God Himself in his most excellent, superior character imparting His personality and character to us. That is why it is incredible.
The Love God is, and desires for us to dwell in is of the richest and most perfect kind. It is perfect, flawless, untainted, life sustaining in every manner. We could not be loved anymore perfectly than we are by Him, because He is incapable of loving us to a lesser standard than He is PERFECT!
This is the love that will overcome every sin, blemish, hindrance, and anything this world would have to destroy us. His love is perfect in everyway. It is of the highest standard and quality. It is so powerful that in it there is not one drop of condemnation. Listen to His word, Romans 8:1, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus."
The quality of His person, (LOVE) is so perfect and excellent that nothing in all creation can separate us from it. Romans 8:35-39," Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
He is perfect love that never lets go, never gives up on us and able to keep us and finish the good work He started in us if we will stay abiding in Him! That is the conditional part for us. We must continue to abide in Him. He won't make us or force us to, because then His love would not be perfect. Perfect love waits for the object of that love to love Him freely in return.
This is the great need in the Body of Christ here in the United States. We must learn to abide and live in that perfect love. The Lord desires to reveal that Love in us and through us so we can stand in anything and everything that comes. This is what Quality is all about! The Quality of never having to be afraid as we live in the Secret Place of the Most High God. The Quality of never having to worry or be fretful or resentful, because we know that all things are working together for the good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.
Yet, even greater than that, is the Quality of God (Love) cast out all fear in our ENTIRE being. That is how powerful, excellent and magnificent God is. Most people see God (love) as something He chooses to do or give, but this is so below His excellence. He doesn't give love, He is love. He doesn't do love as a choice, He imparts His nature (loce) to that which He loves!
Like a branch that abides in a vine and gets all it will ever need to live and bear fruit from the vine, is the relationship of Love that God desires for us to have. We must "abide" in the vine to receive all we will ever need to live and bear fruit. Jesus said, "apart from me you can do nothing.' We are not to abide in "our idea" of God, because then the quality of that love is reduced to measure of human beings idea of love, and our ability to love or not.
Many believers see God from the human perspective and not from the QUALITY of the PERSON He is. Our idea of God limits Him and puts Him in the box of our human understanding and brain.
Beloved, He does not fit, nor can the excellence of His nature ever be received in the human mind. That would make us bigger than God Himself! So many don't know the Lord as Love Himself. They see Him as the "big guy upstair" who makes a choice to love or not love if we are good enough. They even swrote a song about it which says, "God is watching us from a distance." This is a testimony of someone who does not even know who God is, yet that song is played on Christian radio stations.
He does not watch us from a distance, He wants to inhabit us, sup with us, dwell in us and us with Him. Right here and right now, every moment of our life. It is this abiding in Him alone that enables us to know Him for who He really is? It is abiding in Him we begin to receive the QUALITY of that LOVE which is nothing less than His person and this is the only way we can be changed into His image and likeness. When we develop this intimate love bond relationship with Love Himself then the fruit of that relationship cast out all fear and pain out the door in our hearts.
The BBE edition testifies of this perfect love: 1st John 4:17-19, "In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love. We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us."
What an excellent quality of love! A love that heals, restores and removes all the pain from our heart. A love that leaves no room for FEAR! This is not something He does, but something He is! He is beautiful beyond description, to marvelous for words!
I don't know where you are in your relationship with God, but what I am testifying of is bigger than religion, church or anything else. It is God Himself (Love) that wants to be known in you and through you. Even more, He wants to inhabit you completely, and fill you with the most fullest measure of that divine presence(love) until you are filled with His all in all!
This beloved reader has to be the shift the Body of Christ must take in America. We must get beyond our "idea of God" to be filled with God's idea of love shed abroad in our hearts. Then we will be empowered to fulfill the great commission and "Preach the Good News to the poor, and heal the broken hearted." Then the world will know we are His disciples because we will truly love one another as He has loved us.
My prayer for all of us today is to know the deepest QUALITY of who God is (LOVE)! That we would dwell in Him, and allow us to be changed from one degree, or moment of Glory to another! In this way, we will become the city on the hill, or the light shining in the midst of darkness. Press on Beloved, He is worth knowing and abiding in. He is LOVE ITSELF!
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