Abide In My Love

" As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: abide ye in my love " Jn15:9 -

-Andrew Murray - Abide In Christ


Lord,teach us...God is love. Love is His very being. Love is not an attribute, but the very essence of His nature, the centre around which all His glorious attributes gather. The love of the Father to the Son is that divine passion with which He delights in the Son, and speak, "My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The divine is as a burning fire; in all its intensity and infinity it has but one object and but one joy, and that is the only begotten Son. When we gather together all the attributes of God- His infinity, His perfection, His immensity, His majesty, His omnipotence- and consider them but the rays of the glory of His love, we still fail in forming any conception of what that love must be. It is a love that passeth knowledge.

And yet this love of God to His Son must serve, O my soul, as the glass in which you are to learn how Jesus loves you. As one of His redeemed ones, you are His delight, and all His desire is to you, with the longing of a love which is stronger than death, and which many waters cannot quench. His heart yearns after you, seeking your fellowship and your love. Were it needed, He could die again to possess you. As the Father loved the Son, and could not live without Him- so Jesus loves you. His life is bound up in yours; you are to Him inexpressibly more indispensable and precious than you ever can know. You are one with Himself. "As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you." What a love!.....

It is a perfect love. It gives all, and holds nothing back. "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand." And just so Jesus loves His own: all He has is theirs. When it was needed, he sacrificed His throne and crown for you: He did not count His own life and blood too dear to give for you. His righteousness, His Spirit, His glory, even His throne, all are yours. This love holds nothing , nothing back, but, in a manner which no human mind can fathom, makes you one with itself. O wondrous love! to love us even as the Father loved Him, and to offer us this love as our everyday dwelling....