A Journey Into Divine Love预览

You were meant to Love and be loved by Jesus

The Lord doesn’t see you the way you see yourself or the way others see you. He doesn’t define us by our failures or our struggles. He sees our eternal identities and destinies— who we are in Him and who He has called us to become. He praises us for qualities we don’t even know we possess. God wants you to know that you are His best. You are His favorite. Others can be God’s best and His favorite, too, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that you are uniquely His best, His favorite, and His most beautiful. That’s the way God feels about all of us, and He wants us to have that revelation in our own hearts. Jesus didn’t just die for the world; He died for you, personally. That’s a big deal.

If we are a fragrance to God, what is that fragrance? Paul says it is a fragrance “of Christ.”

The beauty of Yeshua is inside us. What an incredible reality that when Father God “smells” us, He smells the essence, the fragrance, the purity, the freshness, and the beauty of Christ emanating from our innermost beings.

When you lie in bed at night, think about Messiah Jesus and His extravagant gift of love for us. Hold on to it when you are going through difficult times in the “night seasons” of life. When God seems far away, hold the memory of Him in that place close to your heart all night long. It will help you go safely through the trial.

God has made His invisible beauty manifest to us in the natural world. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made” (Rom. 1:20). There is a reason the Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh, descended as a dove during Yeshua’s baptism (Luke 3:21–22). God made doves with characteristics that speak of His Spirit’s attributes.

Doves are affectionate. The one thing Jesus desires that nobody can give Him but you is your affection. He desires this more than anything. We are to be like the merchant Yeshua spoke of who went and sold everything he had to buy the pearl of great price.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. —Matthew 13:45–46

Jesus is our pearl of great price, worth everything we have.