The Destiny of Love.

When you enter into a relationship, one of the things that you should find out is the future of that relationship. A good way of finding that out is asking your partner this; where is our love leading to? Well, this is not a post on relationships. :) Recently, I have been meditating on the destiny of love; God's love for me. Why did he love me? For  what end did he love me? 1  John 5:16-17, 'And we have come by intimate experience to know and have believed, trusted and are convinced of the Love which God has continuously within us. God exists continually being Love, and the person continuously remaining within, and in union with, the Love, is continuously remaining within,  and in union with, God –and God constantly dwells within him and in union with him. Within this the Love has been brought to its goal, been matured, reached its destiny and is now perfected with us, to the end that we may continuously have confident freedom of speech within the day of sifting and separation, because just as That One is, we also continuously exist being: within the midst of this ordered System.' (JMNT). Whilst meditating on these verses, something caught my attention, '....Within this the Love has been brought to its goal, been matured, reached its destiny....' Love has a goal, love has a destiny! I'd like us to look at two aspects, 'The destiny of love' and 'How love fulfills its destiny'. What is Love's destiny? '.. To the end that we may continuously have confident freedom of speech within the day of sifting and separation, because just as That One is, we also continuously exist being: ..' (Verse 17). The end, the destiny of love is for us to have boldness in the day of judgment, because we discover something big; AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD'. The destiny of love is the realization of this; our consanguinity with the Lord Jesus! How is this accomplished? This is observed in verse 16, 'And we have come by intimate experience to know and have believed, trusted and are convinced of the Love which God has continuously within us...' Verse 17 then begins, 'Within this the Love has been brought to its goal, been matured, reached its destiny...' Little wonder Apostle had the same revelations from God when he said that '...we might know the Love of God that passeth all understanding that we might be filled with all God's fullness' (Ephesians 3:19). This is God's dream, this is love's destiny; that I might know, 'As he is, so AM I in this world'! #Reflection #Pleroma