Day 335 - We Love With His Love

Lee McDowell Christian Ministries                         LMCM

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Thoughts on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 56

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If we see ourselves as unlovable, it would follow that we would have difficulty feeling loved.  What is even more of an issue is that sometimes we see others as being unlovable!  What do we do then?

DAY 335

We Love With His Love

By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. –John 13:35

As I mature, I relate to Peter in deeper and deeper ways, ways in which I wish I did not. Christ’s question to me, “Michael, do you love Me?” can elicit the response, “Lord, You know that I like You.” No need lying to Him! He knows my deepest attitudes. What amazes me is His response back, “Well, I do really love you.” How can He say that? Because He is the epitome of Love that is always being acted out. He tells us to love an enemy. Does He not do what He commands? If I am His enemy, will He not love me? He tells us to forgive when offended. Will He not then forgive when He is offended? We see the Sermon on the Mount as a teaching to follow and forget that it describes His actions, attitudes, and behaviors toward us. Love qualifies Him to be God!

Do you have the revelation? He loves you! He loves your few hairs left on your head, the way your eyes squint, your height, your looks, the shape of your hands, that odd-looking toe, the wrinkles, the way you speak, and every other aspect of your uniqueness. You do not believe me. I will let eternity speak against the years. I can wait; I will be proven right. When you get to heaven, you will see yourself as He sees you. When you do, you will not ask to have anything changed. You will even keep your so-called deformity. Many of you have gone your whole lives believing yourselves to be unlovable. Unlovable simply does not exist for perfect Love. 

Do you have the revelation? He loves you! He has an intense yearning for you. Some of you are grandparents who know the excitement that wells up within when your grandchild is coming, the abundance of photos you take, the writing down of the child’s sayings, and the attention you direct to his every little act. Multiply that times one billion and you might get an inkling of God’s love for you. If you can see it in the deepest part of your being, then anything that He asks of you, you quickly do without question, knowing the request is based in love. The obedience of Jesus toward the Father was not a task, something that must be performed implicitly; rather, His obedience was always a joy because He had the revelation of God’s love. If God, who loved Him so much, asked for something, that something must be firmly rooted in perfect love. Jesus was so convinced of God’s perfect love that when He was asked to go to the cross, He went with joy. I do not mean He was laughing, but He knew perfect Love was up to something, such as that the cross meant a crown! God is Love! Hebrews 12:2, “Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” You see commands as coming from an authoritative father figure, one who is keeping you from having fun, and you fight obedience. God is not your earthly father! The missing dynamic in perfect obedience is the revelation of perfect love. How can you believe God and act if you are not first convinced of His love? II Thessalonians 3:5, “And may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ.”

Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point      Green – IT, Incredible Truth        

Red – GP, Greatest Promises

Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches           Pink – PV, Priceless Victory

For you, what is the most important statement in today’s writing?

Name 3 people you feel are “unlovable”:

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Do you have the revelation of God’s love for you?

How are you going to be able to “love the unlovable” from now on?

Interesting, isn’t it…we who have Christ in us could feel ourselves as being unlovable.  How is that?  Two things…first, not having the revelation of God’s love for us.  Second, feeling with the feelings we were born with (as a Lost Man), instead of feeling with His feelings that became ours when we were Born Again. 

So much of this ties back into Michael’s writing in his book, Sidetracked In The Wilderness, in chapter 6, where he shows our tendency to see issues or events as the “problem” when the fact is that our identity is what is causing us to respond as we do.  I strongly recommend you getting Sidetracked In The Wilderness and soaking on the freedom-giving truths Michael expounds upon there.

I love Michael’s statement: “Unlovable simply does not exist for perfect Love.”  No matter who we are, what we have done, where we have been, what somebody else thinks about us or how they treat us…our being unlovable does not exist for God.  Hallelujah!

I also love: “The missing dynamic in perfect obedience is the revelation of perfect love.”  WOW!  How we have argued and discussed the why’s and wherefore’s of God’s commands, and tried to figure out how we could get around them or ignore them.  All the while, He is trying to show us through Christ’s life on earth that no matter what He asks of us we can obey with the joy of Jesus, knowing the request is based in His love.  Amen.

Love with His love…an irresistible challenge!

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