Abiding in the Love of God

Yesterday, we asked God to increase our love for Him and for others. Today, we are going to learn how to abide in this increased love.

To abide means to live in, or dwell in, in the same way we live in or dwell in our house. It is the place we reside. Abiding in love means that we can be found residing in love. When we are to be found, we can be found in love, if we abide in love. Our reading from the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of John shows us so many powerful truths about what abiding in love looks like.

John 15:7-9 talks about the power of abiding in God’s love. It says when we remain in Him and His Word remains in us, we can ask whatever we wish and it will be given to us. He does this for His glory! He loves to see His children prosper as testaments of His power, grace, and mercy.

In John 15:26, it speaks on the work of the Holy Spirit. Through our shortcomings and inadequacies, the Holy Spirit testifies to the goodness of God. Through God’s completion of us and acceptance of our imperfect selves, we bring glory to Him.

When we abide in His love, the Holy Spirit comes and accompanies us, and fills us to overflowing. Before we know it, the love of God operates in us and through us in such a way that the things that used to trip us up, keep us awake, hold us back, and make us hate, are no longer able to do any of those things. We become unconquerable when we abide in love.