Unrelenting according to Webster's Dictionary means, "not slowing down, stopping, or growing weaker." The Father spoke to my heart and said that He wanted to, "pour His love into me." We seek God for so many reasons, being in pain, needing a breakthrough, because we don't know what else to do, or we are just at the end of our rope. God who is the most amazing Father and the very source of love itself who wants to saturate His beloved sons and daughters with His love till we are overflowing. It seems selfish to seek God to be loved, yet this extravagant Father knows that being saturated with His love means love will come out of us onto others. In 1 Corinthians 13 we see the very attributes of His love, patient, kind, does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, and so many other qualities of His agape love in us. In speaking with a person this week they felt bad for being in a place to rest and receive Father's love, we should be doing something for Him or doing something for someone else. This person said it seems selfish. Strange that in a very self-centered culture that is constantly snapping "selfies" we feel it is selfish to want God's love for us. Out of all the disciples John was the only one that had a revelation of the love of God, so much so that He was called the "disciple that Jesus loved". I bet the other disciples wanted to kick his butt at times for being so proud that He was the one Jesus loved, yet no where do we see Jesus correcting John. It was said of John that he would always be the one leaning against Jesus chest while they dined, I wonder what the other disciples said in their committee meetings about their little band about John. In 1 John 4 this same disciple says that "God is love", John knew this love intimately and up close with divinity in a human body for 3 years. I don't believe John was saying that he was the only one Jesus loved, he just had a personal revelation of God's love for him through Jesus. As Jesus was being crucified and all the others scattered who was the lone remaining disciple, John and Jesus mother Mary was also there. I wander how the Body of Christ would be transformed to look like the Bride if we would let the Father lavish His love on us, being the object of His love simply because this is who He is. The revelations that would come out of this place of intimacy, affection, and extravagant love would change the way we see life and the way we relate to others. I believe so many of our issues, relationship problems, and even sicknesses are connected with deep down love deficits. Yet we have been put in right relationship with the God who is an ocean of love, never ending love that will blow any paradigm of love that once had. In Revelation 1 the same disciple John writes of powerful encounter he had with Jesus the returning King, in this encounter Jesus eyes were like fire. This fire is the fire of His love, His jealousy for His bride, and His unending passion to be One with us. Will you consent to being radically loved, with a love so powerful that this love sees every deficit as an opportunity, every lack as a place to be filled, every broken place as a way He can display His goodness, every sin as a place He can show off His grace through forgiveness, and every loss as being transformed into a place of beauty, redemption, and hope for others. I am convinced that agape love gives, so being radically and abundantly loved will mean that this love will leak out on others (overflow). Will you dare to be selfish, to be jealous for His love for you? Can you imagine a Body of believers who are so saturated with the love of God, that they would say of themselves "we are the disciples Jesus loves."
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