Fri 18 May 2012
JESUS
Posted by cheryl under JESUS, May
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(C) Cheryl Howard 2009
I love that YOU share YOUR secret thoughts with me
I adore YOUR precious heart that YOU reveal, indescribably
Oh I’m enamoured with the sound of YOUR incomparable voice
Every word that YOU do utter, so exquisitely choice
I can hardly wait each day for the time we spend apart
When I’m so blessed to draw aside with YOU and glimpse YOUR heart
Indescribable are YOU, so full of wonder that I soar
In my heart do YOU inspire such devotion and such awe
BELOVED, that is YOUR Name I cherish and hold most near
For YOU are to me The ONE above all others held most dear
YOU are Holy, full of Truth and fierce compassion
And in me YOUR loving image YOU would fashion
YOU are unrivalled in YOUR power and YOUR beauty
To be in YOUR wondrous Presence is only joy – not ever duty
I have barely scratched the surface of Who YOU are
And I’m dizzy with desire to discover more of YOU by far
O my Glorious and unequalled mighty SAVIOR and my LORD
YOU in all creation, Alone, deserve to be worshipped and adored
The privilege of serving YOU, unparalleled, is mine
For only YOU are GOD Most High, YaWeH, KING DIVINE!
thought for the journey …
John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.”
We are commanded to a higher love - not just ‘love your neighbor as you love yourself’, but to love each other as CHRIST has (and does) love us! HE raised the bar to unattainable heights for mere man!
Does that thought make you shrink inside with the knowledge of your inadequacy? Does it fill you with a sense of impossibility? To love your neighbor (whoever that may be) with the same love that JESUS loves you!
Well the truth is, it is impossible!
For us that is!
But not for our GOD!
The key is “HIS love” - not ours, but HIS. We don’t possess this love in and of ourselves, but CHRIST in us - our Hope of glory - does! It is not a command to love with our flawed, selfish love, but to love in and with HIS Perfect love!
Romans 5:5 tells us that ‘hope does not disappoint because the love of GOD has been poured out in our hearts by The HOLY SPIRIT Who was given to us!’ The words ‘poured out’ come from the Greek word ‘ekcheo’ and means to gush out, to run greedily, to be shed abroad and spill - in other words GOD does not give HIS love to us in a neat, tidy little measured dose; HE literally pours it into us so that it overflows!
GOD indwells us by HIS SPIRIT - JESUS told HIS followers that it was to their benefit that HE returned to The FATHER, because if HE didn’t then HE couldn’t send HIS SPIRIT to be with us and in us! HE pours HIS love, the love of Great GOD Almighty, into our hearts - a love out of which we are commanded to love others. It is not about our striving and working to attain to this love, it is about our yielding, humbling ourselves, depending upon HIM and allowing HIS love to bubble and course through us - for HE is The Source of Agape Love, it is HIS love!
Hebrews 4:9-10 talks about there remaining a rest for the people of GOD, it says “For he who has entered HIS rest has himself also ceased from his works as GOD did from HIS.” We are to rest in GOD, to keep our focus, our hearts, set upon HIM and HIS work of grace within our lives - to yield to HIM in every way, to take up our cross as we die to self (to self will and self rule), and to abandon ourselves in joyful obedience to HIS will and purpose. Let HIM fill us with HIS perfect love so that we can let it flow through our lives and saturate all those we come in contact with!



