Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
John 17:23, “I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”
When the Lord says, “Thou in Me,” He is referring to the Father in Him.
The Father loves Him, and He is “into the bosom of the Father” (John 1:18).
This speaks of the mutual love between the Father and the Son.
The first part of the above verse says, “I in them,” which means the Son is in us.
Of course, when He is in us, that brings the Father into us, because the Son comes with the Father.
He comes with Their love relationship.
He comes with this wonderful liquid love flowing between the Father and the Son, and the Son and the Father.
Now the Lord is in us.
He is in us moving with that love.
In John 15:9 He says, “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.”
Let that love move in you.
That means let the divine life flow.
When the life flows, the love flows.
When you release life, love comes with that life.
“I in them” means “I am moving in them, I am loving in them.”
It is a love relationship.
The Lord wants to establish in us a relationship with Him and the Father that casts out all fear.
He wants us to be comfortable with Him.
He wants us to know the security of His love.
As the Father has loved the Son, the Son loves us.
He wants us to know that love.
He wants our whole relationship to be in that love.
He wants us to know that even when we are failing, we are loved by Him.
He died for us.
He wants us to know the security of coming to Him after a horrible defeat and saying, “Jesus, forgive me.”
He wants us to know in the security of that love that the blood is cleansing us from all sin.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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