Faith and Trust come from Love

I have longed to trust God more fully to be bold in stepping out in His leading.  Yet I have found places of an orphan heart where there is unbelief and distrust.  Following this discovery is often disappointment and frustration, yet the problem is that there is deception in this viewpoint.  The truth is that God loves me because of who He is and thus from His love rises up trust.  We are transformed by receiving Father's love for us and seeing ourselves as the Beloved of God.  As we see we truly are the Beloved faith and trust begin to rise up within us, actually it is who we are to trust God.  You cannot try to trust or try to believe, trust comes from a heart that experiences His love.  In Galatians we are told that "faith works through love", if faith is not working then we are not receiving His love.

Since God is love and loves us with an unrelenting, overwhelming, and powerful love the limitation is on our side and connected to what we believe about our identity.  It is amazing to me how much we as believers try to do for God apart from experiencing and knowing His love.  Love is the initiator and we are the receivers, which is a humbling place but also the most powerful place.  I believe our limited view of God's nature as love, through our painful experiences of love as being rejecting, disappointments when we wanted love but didn't get it, and religion which has taught us that God only loves us when we are good has slowed the ocean of God's love down to a trickle.  Father has designed that in our New Nature as Father's Beloved sons and daughters that we would be perpetually overwhelmed by His love.

Father legally paid the price in Jesus Christ for us to be filled with all the fullness of God.  I love how the Amplified Bible says it in Ephesians 3:19, "and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God's presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself]."  I know that I am not full but I want my inheritance in Jesus Christ and being filled with God Himself is the inheritance.  Things or resources are wonderful but to receive God Himself is truly our destiny.  I am tired of trickles or even encounters I want to experience being the Beloved 24/7 since we are habitations of God on the earth.

In Father's Love,
Bret