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12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:12–16, NKJV)
REFLECT/RESOLUTION
God cannot be seen. But His actions can be. If I love someone else (godly love-not flesh), God is in me, and showing others love through me. His love is being perfected in me who give His love to others.
I can know I abide in God and God abides in me by His Spirit. I am to live internally listening to the promptings of the Spirit. I am to want to do what He says, even if it is not what I like and want. He knows better than I do like a good father and a child who wants things their way. I must ask for the power to do what He asks especially when it goes against my flesh. I will want to be a spoiled brat and fight but submitting builds good fruit in my soul and it is easier the next time.
The Father has sent Jesus as Savior of the world. If I know and believe Jesus is the Son of God then God is living in me. Believing in this sense means to live like I believe it. Just confessing belief in something does not make it active in my life. Confessing a chair can hold me does not become active in my life until I sit in it with my belief. Then I am acting on my confession with my belief and it is working. When I am confessing believing and acting then I am in God and God is in me.
I know and believe the love God has for me because The Father gave me Jesus as my Savior, Jesus died and paid all my sin debt and His blood continually washes me, The Holy Spirit is living inside guiding me into His plan for my life that I can now actually walk out in His power and promptings.
God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
REST
Thank you my Trinitarian God! Father thank you for loving me so much you sent me help to save me from eternal death and made me able to live in with and through you! Jesus, thank you for loving me so much you went to the cross and paid my sin penalty so I can be free from wrath and live in with and through you as a beloved child. Thank you Holy Spirit for loving me and being willing to live inside and guide me into all you have planned for me. Thank you for your inspirations and power to live the grace filled life I was meant to have in with and through you. Thank you my God for promising to never leave me! Help me submit to you and your ways so I can live an abundant life in Christ and see you face to face when it is time! I love you my God!
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