As believers in Christ, we are God’s species because we have been born of Him to have His life and nature, and we can abide in love by abiding in God; God first loved us and infused us with Himself as love, and now we can live as Christ in this world by living the same life of love to be the same as He is, loving all men indiscriminately.
Lord Jesus, thank You for loving us and for dispensing Yourself as love into us. Hallelujah, we are children of God, and God as love has been dispensed into us! Amen, Lord, keep us open to Your divine dispensing so that we may be filled with Your love and live a life of love! May we love others with God as love. May we love them indiscriminately, having no regard of persons, even as God loves them! Amen!
May we take the most excellent way of love in doing anything and being anything in the church life and in the Christian life. I am very impressed to see that Paul wrote to the church in Corinth a lot, even though they seemed to have so many problems.
He did not just leave them alone and pray for them, as we many times do; rather, he showed them the most excellent way.
The church in Corinth loved gifts, wisdom, and teachings, and they were divided from one another by taking sides with this or that brother.
Even more, there was one brother who lived in sin, there were strifes, and there were all kinds of manifestations of the flesh in this church.
So Paul wrote to them and ministered Christ to them. He encouraged them, even when they pursue spiritual gifts, to take the most excellent way of love.
We need to love the Lord and love one another. And we can do this because we first enjoy God as love, we are loved by Him, and we enjoy the dispensing of His love into our hearts.
God dispenses Himself as love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given to us.
May we remain open to His divine dispensing daily and may we allow the love of God to be expressed through us.
May we let the Lord perfect us in His love as we live the Christian life and the church life. Day by day, we need to give ourselves to love the Lord and allow Him to live in us as love.
As we live by the divine life of our heavenly Father, we spontaneously love others, for His life is a life of love, and we can love them with Christ as love who is being wrought into us.
We are Born of God with His Life and Nature to Live a Life of Love, Loving others with God as our Love
The greatest commandment is that we love God and we also love others; we fulfil all commandments when we love God and love others.
How can we love God, and how can we love others? We do have the human virtue of love, but we don’t have the reality of love, that is, God as love, being expressed through us all the time.
We need to realise that God is love; we love because He first loved us (1 John 4:8, 19).
Love is the inward essence of God, even the heart of God (v. 16).
Because God is love, He predestinated us unto the divine sonship in love; His predestination was motivated by the divine love (see Eph. 1:4-5).
He loved us even before we were born, and He predestinated us in love even before we came into existence.
What kind of love is this? God already loved us even before we existed. This is mind-blowing. This is real love. God first loved in that He infused us with His love and generated within us the love with which we love Him and the saints (1 John 4:19-21).
He loved us, He sought us out, He brought us to salvation, and when we opened to Him, He dispensed Himself as love into us.
We are now children of God, those who are born of God with His life and nature (John 1:12-13). As children of God, we have God’s life and nature in our spirit.
We have been regenerated by God to be His species; we are God’s species, God’s kind, and God is love. Since we are God’s kind, his species, and God is love, we also are love.
We don’t just love – we are love, for God is love. He loved us first by infusing Himself as love into us and generating within us the love with which we love Him and we love the saints.
We cannot keep the law, we cannot generate love, we cannot love God, and we cannot love others.
But when we open to the Lord, He infuses love into us, and we now live a life of love, loving others with God as our love, and loving God with Himself as our love.
The life we have received from God is a life of love. Christ came a lived a life of love by expressing God as love in His human living.
Now we live in this world even as Christ did. Christ lived in this world a life of God as love, and He is now our life so that we may live the same life of love in this world and be the same as He is (1 John 3:14; 4:17; 5:1).
Even as He was in this world, so we are today. We are being made the same as He is in His love, and we can live a life of love.
As we open to the Lord in our personal an dintimate time with Him, we are flooded with His love and carried away by the love of Christ.
The divine love becomes to us like a rushing tide of great waters toward us, impelling us to live to the Lord beyond our own control (2 Cor. 5:14).
We are constrained by His love. We are compelled by His love. We are empowered by His love. We are taken on and carried away by the love of Christ.
As believers in Christ, we are born of God; we are part of God’s species, for we have been born of Him to have His life and nature (John 3:5-7).
We are not just adopted by God; we have been born of God. We are bona fide children of God, genuine children of God, having His life and nature. We have been regenerated to be God’s sons, God’s pecies, God’s kind; God is love (1 John 4:16).
We can now live by the divine life to be children of God in reality, and we will love others with God as love. We belong to the species of love; we belong to the kind of love.
We love God and we love one another because God as love is poured out into our heart. Since through regeneration we have become God in His life and nature, and God is love, so we also are love; we don’t just love – we are love.
This means that we don’t merely love others but that we are love itself (John 1:13; 13:34). Thank the Lord!
As God’s species, we are love because God is love, and we love with God as our love.
May we live in the mingled spirit today; may we learn to turn to the Lord and love Him, pay attention to our spirit, and live in the spirit so that we may love others with God as love.
May we live a life of love, being the true children of our heavenly Father, who is love.
May we allow the Lord’s love to compel us, impel us, constrain us, flood us, and take us on with Him so that we may live to the Lord in all things. May the Lord gain us as such ones, those who live a life of love.
Thank You, Lord, for choosing us before the foundation of the world in love. Hallelujah, we were predestinated by God, chosen by God, and selected by God in His love even before we were born! Thank You, Lord, for first loving us. Thank You for infusing us with Your love and generating within us the love with which we love You and the saints! Amen, Lord, we love You. We love You with You as our love, for You generate in us the love with which we love You! Amen, Lord, we love the brothers with God as love being dispensed into us! Praise the Lord, the life we have received from God is a life of love. Amen, Lord, we want to live a life of love today. We want to live one with You, even live as Christ lived in this world, a life of God as love. We take You as our life so that we may live the same kind of life in this world and be the same as Christ! May we be persons who are flooded with and carried away by the love of Christ! Oh Lord Jesus, we love You!
God’s Love Motivates us to Love God and Love All Men, even to be Like God in our Love for Others
As we read the Bible prayerfully, we sense and touch God’s love toward us. God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to come and die for us so that we may not perish but have eternal life through faith into Him (John 3:16).
God gave Christ, His only begotten Son, not only for us to be saved from perdition judicially but even more, to have His eternal life organically in His resurrection; this was motivated by the divine love.
1 John 4:10 tells us that God sent His Son to us as a propitiation for our sins; this is judicial, and it is through His death.
Verse 9 says that God sent His Son to us so that we may have life and live through Him; this is organic, in His resurrection. On the judicial side, Christ died for us to be redeemed; on the organic side, He imparts His life into us so that we may have life and live through Him.
As believers in Christ, we need to live one with the Lord. As we touch Him and fellowship with Him, He motivates us with His love.
God’s love is the source, the grace of Christ is the coming out of the love of God to reach us, and the fellowship of the Spirit dispenses the grace of Christ and the love of God into us (2 Cor. 13:14). In this way, we enjoy the processed and consummated Triune God.
If we read Matthew 5:43-48, we see what kind of love God has for us, human beings.
We realise that God doesn’t love only the good ones, those who deserve to be loved, and those who seek Him; rather, He loves indiscriminately.
God’s love motivates us as his children to love God and to love all men so that we may be perfect as He is, even perfect in His love.
God loves us so much, even though we are fallen and we became His enemies.
He loves us indiscriminately, causing His sun (signifying Christ) to rise on the evil and the good, and is sending rain (signifying the Spirit) on the just and the unjust equally.
When we see this, when we see the love of God, we will be motivated to live a life of love, even love others with God as our love.
In this way, we become the sons of our heavenly Father. If we love only those who love us, what reward do we expect? Even the sinners and tax collectors do the same.
But if we love those who hate us and persecute us, thus living by Christ as our life and loving with God as our love, we are sons of our heavenly Father, for He loves indiscriminately. Amen!
If God had sent Christ with discrimination, only for those who are good, righteous, and spiritual, we all would be disqualified from receiving His salvation.
But He loved us all without discrimination.
And He came into us to regenerate us to be our very life; we are born of God, part of the species of God, and we now can love with God as love.
We can love the evil ones, our enemies, as well as the good ones, for God in us is love, and He loves indiscriminately.
God as love prevails. As we enjoy the Lord personally and come together as a vital group to pursue Him corporately, may love prevail.
May we learn from the Lord, allowing Him to live in us and infuse us with Himself as love.
When He was on the cross, the Lord was suffering very much, and the first person who was saved was one of the criminals crucified with him (Matt. 27:38).
The Lord told him that he would be with Christ in Paradise on that day (Luke 23:42-43). What a love is this! This kind of love is in us.
This kind of love motivates us to love all men and care for them in love. May we live such a life of love today!
Lord Jesus, thank You for coming as the only begotten Son of God to die for us in love so that we, by faith in Christ, would not perish but have eternal life. Oh Lord, thank You for dying for our sins judicially to redeem us. Thank You for dispensing Your life into us organically so that we may have life and live through You. We open to You. We open to the divine dispensing of Your love into us. We love You, Lord. We are motivated by Your love to love all men, even our enemies. Amen, Lord, we are so inspired and motivated by Your love! In Your love, You cause Your sun to rise on the evil and the good indiscriminately, and You send rain on the just and the unjust equally. We open to You, Lord. We want to touch You as love, enjoy You as love, be filled with You as love, and love others with God as our love. Oh, may we have this perfect, divine love being expressed through us today as we meet people, live with people, and do things around people. Amen, Lord, we love You!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” pp. 121-123, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7 (2025 September ITERO), week 6, Being Perfect as Our Heavenly Father Is Perfect – day 5.
- Hymns on this topic:
– The love of Christ constraineth; / At home, abroad, where’er / By sea or shore abiding / His Name and mark we bear. / We ask not that our service / Or great or small may be, / If only Thou wilt own it, / Dear Lord, as unto Thee. / The love of Christ constraineth; / And we who trust His Word, / Who know and feel its power / To gladder service stirred, / Shall neither faint nor falter, / Though dark the night and long, / And weak our hands that labor; / His strength shall make us strong. (Hymns #898 stanzas 2-3)
– Break through my nature, mighty, heavenly love, / Clear every avenue of thought and brain, / Flood my affections, purify my will, / Let nothing but Thine own pure life remain. / Thus wholly mastered and possessed by God, / Forth from my life, spontaneous and free, / Shall flow a stream of tenderness and grace, / Loving, because God loved, eternally. (Hymns #431 stanzas 3-4)
– When love, in one delightful stream, / Through every bosom flows; / When union sweet, and dear esteem, / In every action glows. / Love is the golden chain that binds; / The saints Thy grace thus prove. / And he is glory’s heir that finds / His bosom glow with love. (Hymns #857 stanzas 4-5)
