Love the Father -- Not a List of Steps

"King James Version
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (1 John 2: 15)

We cannot know the love of the Father as long as we think that we have to keep certain rules, whether the Ten Commandments, or the Twelve Steps.

How can anyone experience love from a parent or anyone else as long as they have to meet some standard or set of rules or list of experiences?

As long as we think that we have to do something in order to receive, feel, or experience God's love in our lives, we will find ourselves battling fear, anxiety, and frustration in our walk with God, for we have ceased to realize that all our needs are met in a loving Father who cares for us, rather than the other way around.

We need to know this love, and never should we think that we have figured out how much God our Father loves us.

Because God's love for us is so great, Paul prayed the following:

"16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesioans 3:" 16-19)

Before we can rest in the knowledge of growing in understanding of how much God loves us, we need to recall all that God has promised us through His Son Jesus, as we are blessed with all spiritual blessings, made accepted in the Beloved, seated in heavenly places in Christ, far above all other opponents and obstacles, in whom we have all peace, and are freed from the bondage of the ordinances of the law.

The last part is particularly important, and I have been learning to rest in that wonderful and important truth as part of the Finished Work of Jesus Christ.

We are redeemed from the curse of the law, freed from the rudiments of the world, and now under grace, that we can freely receive all things with Him.