My Beloved,
I call you closer to me, closer to My heart. I call you to spend time with Me, listening to Me, reading My Word with Me, talking things through with Me. This is how I want to grow and equip you for the upcoming season. This is My training ground for you over the next few months: Come and be My disciple and let Me transform you into My image and My likeness.
Become aware of how much I love you and imitate Me just like children learn by watching their parents. I love you dearly. Now come and spend time with Me and discover a life filled with deep love.
I love you boldly and extravagantly, not cautiously. I do not love you to gain something from you but to give My whole self. Now go and love in the same way.
Read the Gospel and observe how I interact with people and handle various situations. Begin to imitate Me in your daily life. Little by little you will become more like Me. Then, when others look at you, they will see Me in you and through you. They will see My actions reflected in you and hear My proclamations through your words. They will see Me healing the sick through your touch and feel My love through your loving care. They will experience My deliverance when you command demons to leave them.
This is My heart’s desire for your life: Just as I was in the Father, so you will be in Me and I will be in you. You will experience the same love-filled union with Me that I shared with the Father. Then the world around you will see and know My love through you.
Activation:
In the coming weeks, as you read Gospel stories, pay attention to Jesus’s actions, words and the love and dignity He shows towards others. Let His behavior inspire you in your daily life.
Follow Him, follow His ways in handling situations and relating to people. Go and imitate Jesus in your daily tasks and your encounters with people – and His Love will begin to radiate in you and from you.
19 After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.
20 On that day [when that time comes] you will know for yourselves that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
John 14:19-20 (AMP)
For those whom He foreknew [and loved and chose beforehand], He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son [and ultimately share in His complete sanctification], so that He would be the firstborn [the most beloved and honored] among many believers.
Romans 8:29 (AMP)
Be Imitators of God
1 Therefore become imitators of God [copy Him and follow His example], as well-beloved children [imitate their father];
2 and walk continually in love [that is, value one another—practice empathy and compassion, unselfishly seeking the best for others], just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God [slain for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance.
Ephesians 5:1-2 (AMP)
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Unapologetically Marcia 