The short answer is that we are going to need it. God in His wisdom stirs the hearts of men and women to prepare for His coming and what is yet to come. It is one of the results of the Holy Spirit leading us.
In what is yet to come, followers of God will need to know (experientially) the love of God. Those who desire to remain true to Christ Jesus will need to have a love of the truth in them that comprehends the circumstances of daily life. Man tends to look at God with a judgment from man’s perspective. It is a part of our present condition to play the judge. It even seems strange to act in such a way as to not be the judge, decider or evaluator of life and events.
Without a real ongoing experience in the inner man of the love of God, we are led down the pathway of false judgments. Our passion can be turned to anger, our desires to lust, and our dreams to depression.
At some level, a truthful relationship with God will result in knowing the love of God for you. In the reality of “who God is”, you will encounter a love, faithfulness, reliability of God for you. God does not place you at the center of all He does, but the reality of His nature being love, results in actions and words that reflect that nature. The result is that you are loved – always.
Yet it would be incorrect to stop there. His love for us leads us to discipline, harmony with His will, and agreement with His nature by the transformation of our nature and a willingness to lose our life in His service. This is the reflection of “if anyone would come after me let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me daily”.
The intimacy movement of the last decade has been divine preparation for people called to go through what is yet to come. We are being prepared to have His nature and Spirit in all we do, even when it is not easy. Most of the world has been doing this for quite some time now. But our turn is at the door.
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