Experiencing Him As Love May 9, 2024 Chapel Walk Post

I find myself in my chapel walks frequently saying to the Lord, "I love experiencing You as Love and I love be loved by You". I often go on to say, "Your love is so amazingly unconditional and therefore without any expectations, yet with great expectancy".

It is this unconditional and consistent love that I had been looking for in human beings ,and never experiencing it. Through consistently experiencing His unconditional love,He has been changing and renewing my mind (Romans 12:2) to understand that human beings will always be conditional in our love for ourselves and others due to our sIn, (capital I for self-centered), nature with which we were born in this world.

I now know that I will never be able to provide unconditional love unless I consistently refuse, with each new situation, to follow my own heart of expectations. Only in seeking and following the supernatural presence and guidance of His heart in each situation can I be saved from myself and express unconditional love to anyone. This is great news!!! It delivers me from performance orientation "to pretend that I am someone that I am not" and from the condemning "should's" of my self-accusation and more than willing accusation and judgment of others.

Even though I am aware that my Heavenly Father provides unconditional love, and therefore has no expectations for me, I also understand that when I follow my own heart, rather than seeking His, my own heart can lead me far away from a close relationship with Him. I will not lose His love, but I will loose the close and intimate relationship that I currently treasure with Him. The consequences of my free will to choose which heart I will follow is a natural law and described as "what you sow, you will also reap".

Experiencing His supernatural and unconditional love with each new day continues to renew my mind. It brings me repeatedly back to the process of refusing to be confirmed to this world, where individuals follow and trust their own heart, to the transformation of the inner man as described in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:2-16).

Thank you for joining me in my chapel walk today.