(tm) Day 30

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And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. (John 17:26)

Christ is being formed in us. God’s love is being created in us. God’s love flows through Christ to us, and through us to other people. In this manner the whole creation will become a part of God’s love that is in Christ. God is enlarging Himself in love and making Christ central to all relationships, events, circumstances, and things.

The flowing of the love of God is the principal force of the universe. All that is desirable in human existence results from God’s love. Whoever would possess eternal life must receive the love of God into himself by receiving Christ into his personality.

God is love and dwells in love. The love of God in Christ reaches out and brings us into that love. We become an eternal part of the Divine love. It does not stop there. The love of God in Christ in us reaches out to others as God directs. They also become one with us in Christ in God.

The Kingdom of God is based on two laws: our relationship of love to God through Christ, and our relationship of love to other people as God’s love in Christ in us flows to them. All the other laws of God are fulfilled in us when our personality is brought into harmony with these two principal laws of the Kingdom.

When we have been made perfect in God’s love we have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Then we are of the Nature and Life of God. Then we have attained the highest goal of the human being: we have become one with God and are in His image.