His Fullness Poured into Our Love Deficits

I have been continually rocked by the revelation that Father placed us into Jesus that we could experience the affection between the Father and Son.  We share in their Brilliance, kindness, fellowship, and love in a constant dance of intimacy and delight.  You have been saved into this amazing relationship.  Yes it is a position but so much more, a fullness of life that will blow away our past experience of life.  I believe the Apostle John could exclaim "God is Love" because he had tasted of this divine reality of intimacy, got lost in the love of God, and therefore could declare that God is love.

Since we have been put in Christ there is no limit to the love that Father can pour out on us who are "in Christ" because it was our old nature connected to being "in Adam" that was the limitation.  Now I understand why in Ephesians 3:19 says, "and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God."  God has birthed us as New Creation sons and daughters to be filled with His nature of Love, Light, and Truth.

Seeing God's incredible fullness of life and love in the Spirit, gives us the freedom to be honest about our love deficits.  Each of us were created to be valued, loved, have security, and purpose.  Yet in this world we all have experienced times where our deepest needs for love were not met and some for long periods of time.  When love needs go unmet for a long time, strongholds of rejection (feeling unloved and unwanted) form in our hearts.  These strongholds will have a life of their own producing thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that we are disconnected from the love we crave.

If we receive the invitation of the Holy Spirit to fullness of life and love, then we can begin to open up these areas of deficit to see His love break into our hearts.  Romans 5:5 says, " and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."  This needs to be more than a nice thought or statement, it must become our experienced reality.  The Love of God must be experienced in addition to being believed.

Receiving His Fullness,
Bret