Success-full Love

For the Christian, hard work, excellence, and uncompromising levels of success are merely the expression of total love towards God. We pour out every thing we are into acts of love for God. We know that whatsoever we do is to the glory of God, because we can only do what God created us to do, and God created us to love. So the more of ourselves we pour into our actions, the more excellent the results are, and the more love is released to God. It is not the objective perfection of the product that results from such an outpouring, but the outpouring itself which matters to God. Therefore, we must focus on putting everything we are into our works, rather than focusing on the results. God is looking for the process of loving Him, rather than the results alone. In the results, however, we create things, just like our Creator, so that every act of creative love for God provides an object we can enjoy together with God. God loves the object-maker, and therefore loves the object. We love the object-recipient and therefore love the object. On a secondary level, we share a love of the object as a creative work, a new expression of our mutual bond, and a point of shared interest in creativity.

EGW quote

Jesus loves you, and has given me a message for you. His great heart of infinite tenderness yearns over you. He sends you the message that you may recover your self-respect. You may stand where you regard yourself, not as a failure, but as a conqueror, in and through the uplifting influence of the Spirit of God. Take hold of the hand of Christ and do not let go

Commentary on Ephesians 3:14-19

Goal: to be filled with the fullness of God.

To be filled with the fullness of God, we must first know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. Certainly we can know part of God’s love in the traditional since, but we’ll miss out on the transformative enormity of His love unless we see and experience the part which “passeth knowledge”.

We must do more than see and experience this super dimension of God’s love. We must so fully comprehend it that we can root and ground ourselves within it. When a tree has good roots, you can’t pull it out, even with a massive backhoe. We will be the same with God’s love in our hearts if we can send deep roots into the super dimension. God’s love will be in our hearts for every situation, good and bad. We won’t have to be constantly relearning and reapplying our comprehension, but instead growing and strengthening it.

We can’t get to this state of rooted, lasting comprehension without supernatural aid. We must have Christ dwell in our hearts by faith. In other words, we must just believe that Christ living in our hearts will be the one comprehending the love for us into our weak little human brains.

But how, how in my life, with my desensitized conscience, my world of pain and confusion, can I ever truly have this faith in Christ which brings Him into my heart, giving me the comprehension of God’s super dimensional love, allowing me to fill up on the fullness of God?

Prayer, that’s how. We pray, our family and friends, perhaps even strangers pray, and Christ himself prays. Pray for what? Pray that our wimpy little inner man or woman will be given the spiritual gumption to take the rich and glorious gift of faith from Christ, instead of spitting on it, mocking it, and crucifying it, as we always do under normal circumstances.

So in summary
Pray for gumption to receive faith. Exercise faith to comprehend (through Christ) the transformative enormity of God’s love. Send roots into God’s enormous love, so that you won’t always be forgetting, rejecting, etc. Enjoy! Enjoy getting filled with the fullness of God, which is the whole point of this process.