To think of what we could do if we were filled with God, how our prayers would be answered, with what power and glory we could minister, is a wrong approach. It is to seek to use God to meet the ends the believer has in mind. It is always wrong to attempt to use God as a means of achieving our ends. God Himself is the End of our quest. God is never to be used as a means to our ends.

All of God's works are brought forth in Divine love. Divine love is not human love. Divine love is different in kind from human love. Divine love must be given to us from above.

When we experience the Divine love and become rooted and grounded in love we then are in a position to receive the fullness of Divine Presence, authority and power. We then understand deeply the manner in which God operates. No longer do we seek power, or to be a successful minister, or to accomplish great things in the Kingdom, or to attain any of the other goals expressed today. Rather, we are content to rest in God's love and to follow that love as it leads us to the people with whom we are to share eternal life.

We may have all the power of the Godhead. But if the power is not rooted and grounded in love it avails nothing and is nothing and less than nothing.

God's love is a fruit of the Spirit and greatly to be desired. Authority and power already belong to God's sons and there is no need to seek them. It is the Divine love that is to be pursued, cultivated, and valued.

May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; (Ephesians 3:18)

The Divine redemption is very broad, very deep. As we stated previously, to claim that we now have "all" God has for us is an arrogant attitude. It will cut us off from what is available to us. The Scriptures speak of a glorious Bride without blemish of any kind. Such a description is not true of the churches of our day.

Some have chosen to believe the unblemished perfection of the Bride will be an imputed (ascribed) perfection because Christ is perfect. We have no program to offer them for they already "have arrived" by believing that Christ is perfect and they are perfect because He is perfect.

But to those who refuse to believe all God has for us is an imputed (ascribed) perfection, it becomes obvious God has not finished with us as yet and we need to press forward in faith as did the Apostle Paul.

And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:19)

The end is Divine "love," as the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians teaches us. Love, the fullness of God, and that which is perfect all go together. The love of Christ indeed passes knowledge. To be touched with the Divine love is to be dissolved emotionally. Holy love is so powerful we humans can experience only the tiniest fraction of it. Such a powerful passion would drive any man or woman to gladly offer himself or herself in order to fulfill the Divine purposes in people.

To be continued.