Here is the revelation shaping my life today – God’s desire is that I would know him intimately and be shaped by his truth.
1 Timothy 2:4 TPT
“He longs for everyone to embrace his life and return to the full knowledge of the truth.”
Observation
What is the desire of God for me? To be with me and for me to know truth. To embrace his presence, to have intimate mystical supernatural experiences of Him, his life flowing through me, this is my God’s passion for me. His life is not intellectually known it’s intimately embraced. I embrace, and I am embraced, by his love, mercy, forgiveness, peace, and sacrificial life and then from encountering him, from the beauty of this mutual embrace, I reflect him, I become him in me. The power of his embrace restores his image in me, and I become me, true self-made in his image me. What God wants is to love me back to me.
Then he desires that I “return to the full knowledge of the truth.” The truth about who I am, my indestructible identity – as a much-loved child of the king. The truth about the purpose for my life – sacrificial self-giving love to all others and care for the planet. The truth about my future gives me unmovable hope – my future is secure into eternity in him, and I will receive the beauty of physical death as the entry into new embodied eternal life with him. The truth about my relational certainty with my God – is that I am perfectly restored and unconditionally loved forever. We are all seeking security and safety, belonging and acceptance, and we want to have purpose and meaning. God desires that I would have the full knowledge of his truth to live life abundantly.
Application
I will live in the intimacy of his embrace and be teachable in his truth. I will become aware of the stories that shape my life and I will weigh the truth I find in each circumstance of life. I will allow his embrace to shape me and his truth to guide me. I will awaken my mind and create rhythms in my life to invite the Spirit to instruct and guide me. I will not live from examinable truth alone but awake to the mystical and supernatural presence of God all around me.
Response
Thank you for the offer of your embrace and the truth for life. Thank you for being available to all for all time, never removed from my receiving and never earned or deserved by my performance. Thank you that your posture is self-giving love, that removes transactional earning or coercion. Thank you that you desire and offer life and truth to all who would want to receive it. And thank you that I find it beautiful to walk with you in your truth. What a life!
Meditation
Meditate – He longs for me to embrace his life and truth.
Consider:
What is the source of your shaping truth?
Do you know his embrace?
JOURNEY DEEPER