You cannot divorce God’s provisions from his love. He has given us provision for every crisis in life to help us live victoriously at all times!
I once prayed, “Lord, I want to know your heart. I can’t get a true understanding of your love for me from any of the books in my library, or even from the holiest men who ever lived. I want my own revelation of your love, directly from your heart. I want to see it so clearly it changes the way I walk with you and the way I minister.”
I prayed for weeks, not knowing what to expect. Would this revelation of his love come rushing into my soul like a flood? Would it appear as some great insight that would leave me breathless? Would it be a feeling of being very special to him or perhaps a touch of his hand on me so real it would change me forever?
No, God spoke to me through a simple little verse: “God so loved...that he gave...” (John 3:16, NKJV). His love is tied to his riches in glory, his bountiful provision for us.
The Bible says our love for the Lord is shown by our obedience to him. His love for us, however, is evidenced by his giving! You cannot know him as a loving God until you see him as a giving God. God so loved us that he invested in his Son Jesus all the treasures, glory and bounties of the Father, and then he gave him to us. Christ is God’s gift to us.
“For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell” (Colossians 1:19). “For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:9-10). In other words, “In him you have everything you need!”
Few Christians take the time to appropriate what God has freely offered. We don’t go after or take possession of it, and the treasures of Christ often lie in glory, unclaimed.
What a shock we are going to have when we arrive in heaven! God will show us all the riches his love had provided and how we did not use them.