The Apostle John desired that you might “come to know and {believe} the love which God has for us.” I always imagine a pause in his mind when he finishes this thought with a simple but compelling reason why: “God is love.” Stay in that thought for a minute before you continue with him through the verse. He finishes, “and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16).Edwin Schlossberg once said: “the skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” I hope that these pages have enabled you to grow in the desire of God. I hope that your faith would always rise out of desire and a response to what God has already done. After all, that's what faith is-- remembering what God has already done for us. And faith produces hope because it creates a vision for the future that is built on the trust formed in the past. And finally, I pray with Paul that you may “be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:18-19).
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