Every child of God needs to increasingly receive His love. What stops that from happening?
As we read our Bibles, pray our prayers, and sing our worship songs do we live enough in the recognized, received love of God? If not, what keeps us from knowing our “beloved-ness?”
It is true that all human beings know Him “through a glass darkly.” These questions are not posed without the knowledge that we are not yet in Heaven. We cannot receive God’s love today, as we will then, but all too many of us are not basking in the love He does desire for us to experience even now.
Why?
Perhaps it is because we want it to not be too intrusive. We are afraid of what it will do to the safe little worlds we have constructed in ourselves, often for our own protection.
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” -1ST John 4:16 (ESV)
