Pursue His Love
Pursue God’s Love
Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. (Mark 11:24-25)
One of my mentors could be relied on to say, “The greater includes the lesser.” What he meant by that was similar to what the Lord guaranteed. Jesus said that if we seek first the Kingdom and its righteousness that everything we needed would be added to us (Matthew 6:33).
It’s like that with God’s love.
In the context of this short article the “greater” is the settled faith in God who loves us and the experience of God’s love. We are promised that through the knowledge of God’s love we would be “filled up to all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19b).” This really does mean that everything we desire concerning the manifestation of Jesus in the earth will be expressed in and through us. Jesus, the fullness of God!
For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him … For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, (Colossians 1:19, 2:9)
Do you believe this? If so, why not run after it? After all, God’s love is pursuing you!
Surely your goodness and faithfulness (grace, kindness) will PURSUE me all my days, (Psalm 23:6a NET, YLV, CJB)
Why not shake off passivity and pursue the knowledge of God’s love?
We can do this the same way we might pursue the righteousness of God. In Romans, Israel’s spiritual dilemma is attributed to not pursuing God’s righteousness by faith. God’s righteousness is attained through vibrant, reverent, reliant trust: trust in the Messiah (Romans 9:30-32).
In the same way we cannot earn righteousness through our efforts we cannot obtain the knowledge of God’s love through our works. We are called to abide, trust, and expect that God will answer our prayers for the knowledge of His love.
Paul prayed for the Ephesians:
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that [the] Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the Messiah’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:14–19)
Pray in faith. Pursue the knowledge of God’s love by Scripturally illuminated faith expressed in believing prayer.
Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you. (Mark 11:24-25)
You will get what you pray for.
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Also, David wrote a book about God’s love for the Jewish People called, For the Sake of the Fathers
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