EPILOGUE
“GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS,
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE…” (JOHN 15:13)
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| THE REAL BLESSING! |
Hopefully you learned
have in TRANSFORMING LOVE that God
chooses you, draws you, loves you, changes your identity, speaks to you,
becomes Lord and makes you holy. The
components of the relationship, in this book, with God may seem very basic, but
they are necessary. For the YADA relationship is the ultimate blessing and was
meant to enhance your overall health and well-being.
When someone loves you and knows you so
well you feel extraordinarily safe: IT FEELS GOOD. It feels good for someone to
care so deeply and consistently for you. I am talking about the kind of
attentive care that will stop you from being desperate for dysfunctional love.
God re-conditions you to know a true and holy love by purposefully teaching you
the right way to both give and receive love. The loving relationship with God
will improve ALL your other relationships. God calls you to know him, so you
can know his love for you and you can experience his kind love for him and for
others. “We love him, because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19 KJV).
In one of my quiet moments God said to me,
I called YOU to “know” me. Who did I
discover God to be? Love. God is Love. I came to know that God’s kind of love must be
comprehended from a HOLY perspective and not a mere human one. I had a serious
love deficit, but God gives me so many chances to learn about his ways. I am so
thankful.
God is extravagant with his chances
towards those he loves. How many times have I messed up? How many chances did I receive to get my
mess-ups right? His love and grace outlasts all our failed chances to get it
right with him (Romans 5:20). My wrongs, when I asked for forgiveness, caused
God to shower me with a tsunami of Love. How could I not return that love to God and
onto others? To whom much is forgiven there is much love (Luke 7:36-48). 
How many offenses are too many for God?
How many chances does he give before His Grace is exhausted? I don’t know. But I learned, where my sin
increased, God’s Grace increased even more (Romans 5:20). Why does God give a
man or woman so many chances? What is His motive for doing that? LOVE.
That’s God’s nature. He can’t go against who
he is. He is Love. I imagine heaven’s atmosphere is the breath of Love. It is probably
as normal as breathing. I am ever thankful that God’s ways are not our ways and
his thoughts are not our thoughts.
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| LOVE IS THE HIGHEST STANDARD |
But his ways are higher than our ways.
People can exhaust the chances they have with each other, but there is always
another chance with God as long as you are on this earth.
God called me for purpose and said, “You are MY Heart, Pensacola and the
mouthpiece for My Heart.” God directs and helps us walk in our purpose when
we trust him.
I asked to know God and to know God’s
heart. He continually shows me his ways
through the “oneness” relationship he has with me and my personal relationships
I have with others.
God’s holy ways goes against the flesh and
human nature. Who God is and the way God does things are unnatural to humanity
and the world often judge God’s holy ways against their own ways of doing
things.
To mankind, it is often distasteful
(objectionable) to continue to love someone who seems to have exhausted his or
her chances or committed certain atrocities against another human being, but
LOVE covers a multitude of sins (wrongs).
God’s understanding of mankind’s sinful
plight is like deep waters. Man’s love will drown where God’s love prevails.
God in his infinite ability to love can sympathize with mankind’s dilemma with
sin, yet has never sinned.
Again, God alone can sympathize with
mankind’s plight with sin and therefore has the fortitude to love an individual
through their deepest issues and concerns.
That kind of love is a mighty weapon
against the dark foes of the soul. It has the power to continue to reach out,
through countless hours, days, weeks, and years, to those who have fallen into
the gutters and trenches of life to give them a victorious finale.
There is no greater love than the love of
God.
God loves you. If you are his child, you
are “…in the beloved...” and God is
pleased with you. As God’s child, through faith in Christ, there is nothing you
can ever do to change the fact that he loves you.
God designed a way through Jesus to have a
relationship with you and you are pleasing in God’s sight. God wants you to experience
the depth of his love for you.
How does that happen? You learn God’s
loving ways through revelation knowledge of the way God loves you. You learn
God’s loving ways through real-life experiences of loving others God’s way.
There is no better way to know someone except by walking in their footsteps.
I learned through personal experience that
love covers over a lot of offenses. God’s kind of love is fully forgiving and
doesn’t keep a record of wrongs towards you. Love is enduring.
Love suffers
long, because it desires to give the other person a chance to get it right by
keeping an open door. Love is faithful. Love is loyal. Love makes a
sacrifice and therefore will always be costly.
Love continues, even if it does not receive
anything in return. Love does not come with a wage attachment, where you have
to somehow earn it. Love does not come with a partiality tag, where you somehow
have to be worthy of it. Love does not come with a merit tag, where somehow you
have to be deserving of it.
Love is free towards the recipient of it
and will not demand anything in return. Love won’t change, even if the
recipient changes, walks away, rejects it, follows after another, is unfaithful, offends, or totally forgets about it. Why?
Divine, holy, agape love is operating in
your heart when you love in this manner. When God’s love is poured out in your
heart you learn it’s a tenacious love!
God called me to know his ways and he
called you to know his ways too. Love is God’s way. I am one of the mouthpieces
for God’s way.
When loving God’s way you will also find
that love is not insecure and will not demand anything from the recipient. Love
does not have low self-esteem and will not demand validation from its recipient.
Love is concerned with its own expression and not the expression of the
recipient. Love’s only agenda is love.
Any resistance to walking in God’s holy
love is the flesh and the influence of the old nature’s limited way of doing or
thinking about love. God’s love has been poured out in our hearts to give us an
opportunity to truly give and receive TRUE love.
Any resistance to walking in God’s kind of
love, it a clear example of how our ways are not like his ways. His HOLY ways
are distasteful to us and unnatural to the carnal nature. We find it
distasteful to forgive some of the offenses others have placed on us.
God’s Love covers a multitude of sin.
My life’s journey thus far have been about
walking in God’s love, receiving it God’s love, and being trained in God’s kind
of love. It has been a costly endeavor, but well worth the journey. God’s love
is liberating and exquisitely transforming.
Loving others while applying God’s truth
helps you get a vision of how God extends forgiveness, grace, and mercy to you
personally.
For instance, someone had done something
bad to me and God said don’t treat them according to their wrongs toward you. I
said “What….?” However, that’s grace.
Another time, someone had done something bad to me and I was justified to
punish them with my attitude, but God said don’t do it. Again, I said “what?” Now that’s mercy and mercy
triumphs over judgement (James 2:13). A third time someone had committed some
really heartbreaking things against me and it hurt deeply, but God said to
forgive them.
None of these things were easy to do, but
I trusted God to work in my heart so I would want to do them and carry it out.
And God did.
Every time I love as God directs; it
changes me in two ways: I am able to see how God loves me and how the
application of his love works on others. Knowing God’s personal love for you
and experiencing his personal love through you is truly transforming.
When you allow God to love through you, it
sometimes teaches you what it costs Jesus to love you. When you personally
experience challenges when loving others and forgiveness or grace or mercy is
the only way to continue the relationship you will learn what it cost Jesus to
love you.
Exercising or extending love, grace,
mercy, and forgiveness in your personal relationships with others; helps you appreciate
the love, grace, mercy and forgiveness in your relationship with God. True love
is costly. When you truly know the price God paid through Jesus, to love you,
you will finally surrender safely into his loving care.
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| YADA KEEPS YOU ENGULFED IN HIS LOVE |
All that I may have lost and gained in
this life can never be compared to the opportunity; I have, to fully enjoy the
YADA relationship with God. May I, and hopefully you too, be lavished, soaked,
covered, and forever transformed by God’s endless love.
Godspeed
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