The Highest Human Privilege

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection].

It’s 4:22am of September 25th. And I can’t rest as am awakened by how I am still alive. Let me take you hours ago. I’d been warned from moving at night, as many threats of killing have been going on around the news.

We had to meet a Doctor as part of a church discipling program and it was kind of far from home, but near if driving. My worry was getting home late and late had a different meaning at my uncle’s.

During the session, though rich it was…anxiety clothed me like a blanket and I didn’t enjoy myself. The enemy made me try to exalt fear and exaggerated the fact that I was going to be late.

“You told your cousin but not your relatives. You’re in big trouble again.You’ll be kicked out of the house. You’ll be killed today!”

These were the kind of thoughts that condemned me all the while. The battle was so loud in my head. I stepped out during the meeting pretending I was taking a phonecall… I prayed in tongues.

The funny thing was both joy & peace eternal were active in me, but the war here (the war always) is that the enemy wants you to look his direction, and make you behold condemnation & failure & threats.

I heard God say clearly “It’s well. I couldn’t let you be here if you were to be killed. I recommended you for this and thus I took all responsibilities even before this year began!”

What!!! Before the year began…

Though I heard this my flesh was still upset, even if my innerman seemed alright.

I enjoyed the meeting, and at the same time, dreaded it! There were clearly two people active here. I knew I had already won but I decided to doubt anyway. One hour later, am dropped off home, and none of the enemy’s thoughts were true.

I was welcomed, had a shower & went to sleep. I wasn’t yelled at,at all! I’d see God shaking his head with a smirk saying “You see I told you…”

Last night my take was that He’d wanted me in spaces to prove Himself to me. You’d term it as test me, or prove the scriptures. Many a time we confess or cram scriptures…but that’s a theoretical view… We all need to test and see those scriptures come to life. In that moment I proved these;

Do not worry about anything but in prayers and supplication make your request known unto God.

Great peace have they who love thy law. Nothing shall ever offend them.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding….

No evil shall befall you, no plague or calamity shall come near your dwelling place.

In the end they are true, when applied, a well of peace floods your soul! I presumed, last night, that I was in that space for my trust of God to increase. But what made me wake up to write this today, was a reason much more profound! To prove His love.

Oh His love! Despite my worry, He smiled, knowing nothing could come in his way & I. Not my relatives, not the laws, not the warnings, not demons, not thiefs… His love, He provided as a guard, and a shield.

Knowing that you are Loved by God changes a million things! Yes, your boss might be on your neck, but hide yourself in God’s love. Just a simple reminder of it, turns your day around!

God’s on a journey of driving the point home that I’ve been perfected in love & that fear has no place anymore in my heart as the theme scripture states!

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you [with abundant increase of favors] and make your name famous and distinguished, and you will be a blessing [dispensing good to others].

Because He loves you, He blesses you! When He blesses you, you become a blessing, and when you become a blessing, you become a Blesser. Abraham constantly blessed in the scriptures… because He understood this truth.

Imagine good health as a blessing. Once you have it, you say I have the blessing of health. Now imagine if health was alive, it’d be a blesser, because without it in you, you wouldn’t call it a blessing.

Another example. God is a Blesser, thus having Him guarantees extra blessings unto us. Now let’s add both these scenarios into one;

Now since you too have become a blessing by God, when others have you in their lives, you become a Blesser. A Blesser in such a sense that you are a blessing in their lives, but you also have power to command more blessings in theirs!

Do you see how Jacob blest all his sons in Genesis 49? All these became true in the course of the bible! That’s what being a Blesser means. It only begins by understanding God’s love for you…

My point is, bible study, Interceeding, going to church and being used by God may be ways of how we can learn and see and share or discover God’s love for us but…

Interceeding is not the highest human privilege, nor is going to church or being used by God. The highest privilege is being loved by God!

All our victories & escapes. All His coverings of us. All the blessings…they are not that we prayed much or fasted much…

They are, because We are loved much, deeply & unconditionally by God! And we are loved the same much as God loves Jesus! (John 17:23)