My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. This is the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality. It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves. And friends, once that’s taken care of and we’re no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we’re bold and free before God! We’re able to stretch our hands out and receive what we asked for because we’re doing what he said, doing what pleases him. Again, this is God’s command: to believe in his personally named Son, Jesus Christ. He told us to love each other, in line with the original command. As we keep his commands, we live deeply and surely in him, and he lives in us. And this is how we experience his deep and abiding presence in us: by the Spirit he gave us.
— I John 3:18-24
The Message
“Reaching For The Light”
God’s
Abiding Love … p 31
Our Humanity is forged in the fellowship of others and in the crucible of God’s abiding Love.
Whereas human relationships rightly reflect our own character, our relationship with God is one of intimacy, fuelled by selfless Love and an earnest desire on our part to know God.
In humbly reaching out to God in prayer we are transformed. Our true spiritual nature is revealed, and with it a joyful lightness of Being; wasteful pursuits a thing of the past.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
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