God's thought

[joeb]

I read probably the most profound thing I've read in a long time, and the ironic thing about it is that I've read it many times before, but yet never seen the beauty of it.

What follows is the first 3 sentences of the 2nd paragraph of The Desire of Ages.

Quote:

By coming to dwell with us, Jesus was to reveal God both to men and to angels. He was the Word of God,—God’s thought made audible. In His prayer for His disciples He says, “I have declared unto them Thy name,”—“merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,”—“that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

How profound is this? Jesus was God's thought made audible. Think about it. When you're reading a red letter Bible edition all those red words are actually the Father's thoughts being made audible to us, we humans. This to me is one of the most incredible thoughts I've ever discovered.

Now let's move to the 3rd sentence of the quote. Jesus says, “that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them". Taking the thought that Jesus' words are the Father's thoughts made audible we see that the Father is saying that His desire for us is to have the same love for Him and those around us that He has for us. He wants us to be just like Him. To have the same character of love that He has. To be love, just as He is love.

So why don't we have this? Because we stop Him from putting this within us. God does nothing without our consent, without our agreement. So, the reason we're not just like Him is because we don't want to be like Him.

How do we change that about ourselves? Can we make that change in us? Absolutely not. We, who are used to doing evil cannot change our own hearts. But, we can surrender our hearts, all of them, to Him, and He can change us. He can put that desire within us. He can bring a clean thing out of uncleean thing. He can place His love within us if we ask Him to, and repent of all our rebellion, our blocking Him from doing for us what He so longs to do for us.

We can be, as Paul says in Ephesians 5:1, God's dearly loved children who imitate Him in all things. Can you even begin to imagine anything better than that? I can't.

[Gail]

Hear, hear! It seems almost too good to be true. Wonderful thought!

[joeb]

Hear, hear! It seems almost too good to be true. Wonderful thought!

It is an incredible thought. I found this about 1:00 a.m. one morning not too long ago when I was awake because I hurt too much to sleep. This thought so captivated me that I stayed awake for another couple of hours with a multitude of texts reaffirming this idea coming to mind from my recent study of Romans through Ephesians.

I spent those hours pain free. It was quite a night as my heart burned within me as One drew near to reveal Himself to me through His word. God is just soooo good.

[Gail]

Wow!

[Gibs]

Very good thoughts to bring up Joeb,

I believe we can take that thought further as Jesus is the Word of God made flesh and dwelt among us.

Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

His Words are His thoughts and He "Breaths" them to and on us,

Joh 20:22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

Now notice,

Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

It even goes further,

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

And so we have His Words to us in print. Notice of verse above "ALL" scripture, so it is not any words of men but of God!

We have such a tendency to not hold the Bible, His Word to us in print to the level it is! It is the Word of our Great God and Father of all to us.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

1Jo 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

1Jo 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.