Where God is His glory can be known, and in that glory, His unspeakable love. Knowing the glory and love of God is the high privilege and calling of all who have made the Kingdom turn. Today’s excerpt from The Kingdom Turn is found on page 84:
“What great joy such love engenders, what a powerful sense of security and wellbeing it entails! What boldness it excites, and what eagerness to embark on new adventures of serving the Lord! How this love transforms us into people who love selflessly, consistently, and well! We are Christians, we stand in the hope of glory, so that knowing glory and love, we may refract glory and love to the world around us. To hope in this glorious experience of divine love is to seek and expect it, to prepare for it, to anticipate it eagerly, and to enter into it as often and as fully as possible, by contemplation and resting in the presence of the Lord.
“To know this love, this glorious making-Himself-known-in-us presence and protection and approval, is to be crushed with delight, humbled with gratitude, enfolded in mystery, held in divine strength and power, and stretched more wondrously into the image of Jesus Christ. It is to see ourselves, the world, and everything in the world as restored in divine love to pristine newness and boundless potential, and to engage such a world in order to bring forth fruit for the glory and love of God.
“To know the love and glory of God is to despise all sin, to resolve on greater love for neighbors, and to long earnestly to sojourn in the Lord’s tent always, just like the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration.”
For reflection or discussion
1. How does knowing the deep, deep love of God affect you day by day?
2. Whom will you encourage today to seek a greater awareness and experience of the love of God?
All that God does in us, where He is at work to enable us to will and do whatever engages His pleasure, is designed to promote love—for Him and for our neighbors. Kingdom life is love, lived out daily and increasingly in the power of God’s Spirit. Share some of the love today by forwarding this podcast to a friend or two. Then follow-up and share the love of God with them by entering together in that love. Your copy of The Kingdom Turn awaits you, free of charge, in The Ailbe Bookstore.
T. M. Moore
