THE PERFECTION OF GOD’S LOVE IN YOU “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17). Herein in this context means, in this wise, or at this point, talking about arriving at a specific understanding of a reality, to convince a knower in a perception for a resolute reaction as a response to a communicated information, to position the knower to function in accordance with a cause, that is, stationing a knower in a conviction of an idea. Our love, here, talks about our acceptance of the love that God showed to all men through His Son Jesus Christ, by which we became His beloved. To become someone’s beloved, you must either accept the love of that person towards you, or receives his love for you, and that connects you to that person, and thus makes you love ones to one another. And John 3:16 states that, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” That means, God was in love with men: but men knew not: and whatever you doesn’t know does not exist for you. For example, if you purpose in yourself on something for someone, you know of that thing as for that person, but until you demonstrate or make it known to the person, that thing exist nowhere in life to the person; because, what man knows is what exist in life to the man. Therefore, if you want somebody to respond to your love, you must first express it to the person, by so doing, you will cause the person to journey towards your love, in other to enter into the realm of your love. So when God needed man to come for His love, He manifested it, even in a way that man could possibly relate with. He sent His Son as the manifestation of His mysterious love towards men: to come and personified His love in men, to easy man’s ability or enable men to embrace the truth; and the reality of God’s love. Hence, anybody that believes in His Son set to his seal that God loves him: and because love goes where love is, the person who receives His love joins himself to His love, and becomes one body with Him, and a branch of His love. Perfection is to fully arrive at the standard of a demand, or to be completed with all the requirements for a purpose, or to be made whole, suitable for a particular cause. So, when the Apostle John declared that, “Herein is our love made perfect…” He was expressing an understanding that, when you hear that God loved you, even when you were a sinner subjected to condemnation: and you believed, and have loved Him as well, then the love in you connecting you to God is the certainty or the substance of the assurance or the guarantee that, the purpose which caused God to manifest His love is fulfilled on your behalf. That means, you have attained to His purpose for giving you His Son as the embodiment of His love, which was even a means of delivering you from the condemnation that was invoked by the sin of the first man upon all men. “Therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life” (Romans 5:18). That scripture describes God’s intention of sending His love to men, that through His love personified, He will impart His righteousness as a free gift to deliver men who will receive His love from the condemnation of death: unto the justification of life. Thus, “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment…” The Day of Judgment is the appointed time of the Father to finally cast all the condemned creatures into the lake of fire, to wipe off their memory from His creation: save those who responded to His love; “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (Romans 5:10). That means, the love that God showed to the world, is perfected in him that has believed, as a guarantee that, such a person is no more a victim on the day of judgment, for he has escaped the wrath of God through His Son “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past…,” “…for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification” (Romans 3:25, Romans 5:16). Evidently, “There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus…,” “…because as He is, so are we in this world” (Romans 8:1, 1 John 4:17), for “…he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:17), meaning, he that believes in Jesus becomes a member of His body, and a member is a part of a whole, which means, a member is not different from the body, for they function towards the same purpose. Even as the Lord Jesus prayed to the Father, saying, “As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world” (John 17:18). The Lord meant that, the purpose by which God sent Him is the same purpose for which He chooses disciples, even to position them after His steps as His representatives in the world unto the same cause; “Now then we are ambassadors for Christ…” (2 Corinthians 5:20). In conclusion, in this understanding, is your conviction of the love of God towards you take grounds, that, you are confident that you are not going to be condemned in the day of judgment; because you are on the side of the Judge, and the Judge is the same who came to pay off that which made you a candidate of the condemnation, so as to make you free from the condemnation: and He that came to rescue you from condemnation, will never come back to condemn you: except you refused; and allowed Him not to rescue you, then you qualify for condemnation. Finally brethren, if you have believed in God’ love, and thus abide in His love, then, “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world” (1 John 4:17). Cheer up brethren, for “…hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us” (Romans 5:5).
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:43:58 +0000
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