Within the mystery and majesty of the love of God,lies the wonder of life.   God,  in His infinite nature allows us to learn from Him, when we embrace Him.

The vastness of the mystery of His nature, His person, is so profound and so beautiful, that if words were a weapon to be used to influence the revelation of this great love, it would prove its truth.

He is so mysterious, that when one walks within the friendship of the love of God, He challenges to believe and to trust.    This is done through discipline and chastisement.      His purest love,  ‘blesses’ beyond all human understanding when, we do not fail, do not give up, but persevere; even through the longest, most challenging of discipline.

He, like our Fathers here on earth, disciplines and instructs   This level of instruction is far greater when one walks with God.    For the friendship and blessings are far greater when  achievement has been met.

When the influence of the love of God the Father is first, His love, His desire, and His wishes, then everything falls into place.   Though  difficult to understand; it must be experienced!

Many, Many people have the misconception that they ‘know’ the love of God.  He is so deep and so vast, that a life-time here on earth can not fill its mystery and majesty!

One must decide to ‘grow’ to experience this incredible journey with Him in command, and Him doing the beckoning!  Only then can we even begin to graze the surface of such profound love.

This incredible experience is acquired when the ‘suffering’ of the trials of this life are endured with Christ His Son!   He loves His Son so much, that when we choose to embrace  suffering with Jesus Christ, we come to know Him intimately!    He does not fail, but is ever faithful.

Rising up to a higher plane of faith must be desired.   To desire is giving of ones-self, in ways over and above what most feel is ‘expected’!

Many do not desire to ‘grow’ in the love of God, but are complacent to the idea.   Excuses are number one.   Discipline is number two.  Humility is number three!   People do not want to be ‘put out’.

Yet, I say to you, what do you expect of love?   What do you desire from the one you love?   Since love is of God, and we love because of God, can we not presume that such love is also desired by God our ‘Heavenly Father’?!

Yet, because He gives us life, and breathes His very self into each of us, so that we may know Him,  He loves us!

We are indeed an extension of His great love through Jesus Christ His ‘only Son’!   Sons and Daughters through the experience of such great love when it is desired and embraced.

An ’embrace’ is and act that speaks, rather than words that express.   An embrace is ‘awesome’!   It warms a soul to such a degree that we ache for it!   Yet, it is an expression that must be ‘reached’ for.  The embrace itself shows way beyond love!   It shows compassion and understanding.   It shows the desire to enter into another’s being.

When we look to the teachings of Our Jesus Christ, we find that to give of ourselves is everything.   Contrary to human understanding, it fills the Spirit that lies within.    It is so mysterious that;  expression of the love of God is within the ‘giver’ !   Our Lord puts it very succinctly when He says, ‘It is more blessed to give, than to receive’.

Giving, rises up the spirit of God.   We know God gave us His all!   How many times does God need to give us His all?    Throughout the Old Testament and into the New Testament, God gives.

Book of Jeremiah: Chapter32:   verses 17-23 (Old Testament)

17)”Ah,  LORD GOD, you have made heaven and earth by your great might, with your outstretched arm; nothing is impossible to you.   18)You continue your kindness through a thousand generations; and you repay the fathers’ guilt, even into the lap of their sons who follow them.   O God, great and mighty , whose name is LORD of hosts, 19) great in counsel, mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of men, giving to each according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deed:   20) you have wrought signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and to this day, both in Israel and among all other men, until now you have gained renown.   21) With strong hand and outstretched arm you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt amid signs and wonders and great terror.   22) This land you gave them, as you had promised their fathers under oath, a land flowing with milk and honey.   23) They entered and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice; by your law they did not live and what you commanded they failed to do.   Hence you let all these evils befall them.”

Book of : First Epistle of Peter: Chapter  4 verses:12-19 (New Testament)

12)” Do not be surprised, beloved, that a trial by fire is occurring in your midst.   It is a test for you, but it should not catch you of guard.   13) Rejoice instead, in the measure that you share Christ’s sufferings.   When his glory is revealed, you will rejoice exultantly.   14) Happy are you when you are insulted for the sake of Christ, for then God’s Spirit in its glory has come to rest on you.   15) See to it that none of you suffers for being a murderer, a thief, a malefactor, or a destroyer of another’s rights.   16) If anyone suffers for being a Christian, however, he ought not to be ashamed.   He should rather glorify God in virtue of that name.   17) The season of judgment has begun, and begun with God’s own household.  If it begins this way with us, what must be the end for those who refuse obedience to the gospel of God?   18) And if the just man is saved only with difficulty, what is to become of the godless and the sinner?   19Accordingly, let those who suffer as God’s will requires continue in good deeds, and entrust their lives to a faithful Creator.”

Rising up into the ‘presence’ and, ‘Person’ of God, is done through giving of ones-self;  obeying His laws,  His Commandments.    For the trials of who we are, and what we endure, are appointed by Him.   Whether we walk or choose to embrace His desires over ours will determine the depth of our love .