Do you feel loved? Are you still looking to be loved? Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Have you given up on love? What would you think if I told you love is living within you? Have you noticed it? Will you open yourself to it?
We may believe that finding love in this life is a challenge. We may think it is hard to find the love we are looking for. If we are looking for a perfect human partner, we would be correct. For there is no such person walking the face of this earth.
However, there is a perfect love and we can experience it. When Jesus prays for all of us in John 17, He prays that we will believe based on what He has said and what the apostles also state. He then states that He has made the Father known to us so that his love will be in us. Catch that? When we come to know God the Father, really know him, his love will be in us.
This is not to negate or limit God’s power. No, it identifies our limitations. Just as Jesus has told us we can not serve two masters, we can not know the full extent of God’s love until we get to know him well. It is our inability to worship two masters, which means we seek to follow the world more than we seek to know God.
How do we get to know God? First and foremost, by reading his Word. John Wesley then adds three more ways—experience, reason (critical thinking), and tradition. Each of them contribute to our getting to know God more fully.
I pray we all seek to know God more fully. I pray we set aside following the world. I pray each one of us knows that as we get to know God more fully, his love will be within us. Know God more fully. Stop following the world. Follow Jesus. God’s love is in us. Show God’s love.
John 17:26 “I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”
Marty Pressey 