There is no guarantee that the love between human beings, whether between parents and children, husband and wife, lovers, or friends, will last forever.
However, through the Word of God, I have come to know that the love between God and human beings is eternal and can be infinitely deepened without limits, depending on our efforts.
What could be better than this for human beings?
Even if we love the same someone, there are dimensions and stages to that love.
Some people love somewhat, some love strongly, some love intensely, and some love completely out of themselves.
However, no matter how much we love someone in this world, there is no guarantee that we will receive the exact same level of love from the other person.
There is no one in the world who can love us back as much as we love him or her.
God, on the other hand, returns love to us as much as we love Him.
This is because God is the source of love and He values love more than anything else in the world.
Therefore, no matter how much we love God, we will not lose anything; rather, we will be blessed abundantly as much as we love God.
And the Lord disciplines us so that we can love Him on a higher level.
In this way, He is leading us to be filled with more abundant blessings so that we can receive a higher level of love from Him.
I sincerely hope that you will come to know such absolute love of the Lord and be filled with His love so that you can live a blessed life to the fullest.
(The full God's Word is much longer and more in-depth, please click on the Rapt blog link at the bottom of the article.)
God is the source of love.
Through the Word of God by Rapt, I have come to know that the more I deepen my love with God, the more abundantly He will bless us.
And as I put this Word into practice little by little, I actually began to feel God's love in various ways.
I am truly grateful that I was able to learn about this sacred system.
The following (purple box) is an excerpt from the Word of God.
If you have once loved me with all your heart, mind, and spirit, you will know how pleased I am by it and how richly I pour out the Holy Spirit on you.
And I will be with only such a one, granting his/her wishes and extending a helping hand in what he/she does.
Do you understand?
I will never extend a helping hand to those who live in live in idleness and peace, those who live in comfort, those who live in leisure and ease, who make no effort.
“I would be happy if I could spend my time as slowly and leisurely as possible doing what I want to do".
At first glance, this way of thinking may not sound particularly problematic.
In fact, it would be easier to live a slow life, and I think many people would like to aim for such a life in their old age.
But is this really the right way to think?
Because I am a diligent God, I am on the same wavelength only with the diligent, I see only the diligent and am truly pleased with them, I want to be with only the diligent, and I want to help only the diligent.
Therefore, if you want to live a carefree and peaceful life, I will not be with you at all, nor will I extend a helping hand.
Therefore, that person will perish in spirit, body, and soul, and will actually live in hellish suffering with no happiness in this world or after deth.
The world has fallen prey to the tendency of people to live comfortably, but how much do they lose by doing so?
They don't even get what they want, they don't even get what they need, they are spiritually hungry and thirsty, and their hearts are filled with emptiness, anxiety, and worry.
Why is it so enjoyable to live a life of ease?
And those who are diligent only in the work of the world but not in the service of My Will are also living a foolish life indeed.
As human beings created in the image of God, I believe that one of God's demands of us is to show Him our diligent efforts.
And if we can do that, we will have shown our love to God.
The Japanese are said to be rather industrious, but that was once a story of the past, and I feel that today's people are being carried away by the mass media and trying to find ways to live as comfortably as possible.
Or, as God says in His Word, we Japanes are so focused on the things of this world that we don't know God and don't use our diligence for His sake, and unfortunately, in many cases, we are wasting our time, I think.
You must realize that I, God, have a “heart” just like you human beings.
I am not a thing.
I am a being with a heart.
If you make even the slightest effort to please my “heart,” you will surely come to understand my feelings.
You will know when I am happy, when I am angry, when I am sad, and when I am disappointed.
Because, when you live your life trying your best to please others, you will gradually come to know their hearts more and more clearly.
Isn't that so?
Because you do not even try to please me, you will never know my feelings.
It was truly a great learning experience for me to know that God also has a “heart".
I think we must be able to understand God's feelings, and
We must make diligent efforts every day to please God without offending or grieving Him.
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Until the New Testament era, the relationship between God and man was “Father and Son,” but now in this new era, the Word has been perfected and it is possible to be “God's lover” and even “God's bride".
God created us human beings because He wanted to make love with us. And to make love with God means to become a lover that God would love and to have many spiritual children with God.
(Those who live for the purpose of evangelization are those who fulfill God's purpose for creation.)
In this month's Word of the 12th, God, through Rapt, about the stages of His love for us,
He also speaks in detail us about the stages of “God's lover” and “God's bride”. Please take a sound.
(I thank God and Rapt from the bottom of my heart for the high level of the Word of God that God and Rapt give us almost every day.)
And it was Rapt who endured God's long process of training, passed through the narrow gate, received immense love and mission, and obtained the position of "God's bride".
In the Word, Rapt said, "The only criterion we should think about is 'Whether or not we are pleasing God.'"
Rapt said that this is all he thinks about at all times.
Before I came to know this Word, I only thought about the things of this world, and so, I was astonished to realize that I was only grieving God.
God is sincerely seeking people who will become His bride after Rapt.
Therefore, I now understand that we must strive to be a person who performs every moment for God, always thinking and doing what God is pleased with, aiming to become His lover and bride, one by one.
I keep waiting for someone to come along who will love me until I am truly satisfied.
I am still waiting now.
However, it is difficult for me to find someone who loves me enough to satisfy me from the bottom of my heart.
There are many people who listen to this Word and follow it because they want to be saved themselves for the time being.
There are a number of people who hear and follow this Word because they think that by following it, they will be released from various afflictions, various problems will be solved, and their wishes will be fulfilled.
However, there are too few who completely abandon themselves and follow me.
Many of those who are still listening to this Word of mine are following me, thinking only of themselves rather than of me.
I think it is important for one's salvation to be accomplished first by encountering the Word of God, but in order to continue to have the faith that God desires, we must not stay stuck at that stage forever.
God will be saddened if we do so.
Love has levels and dimensions.
Whether a man loves a woman, a woman loves a man, a child loves a parent, or a parent loves a child, all love has levels and dimensions.
In loving the same someone, some love somewhat, some love strongly, some love intensely, and some love completely out of themselves.
However, even if you love someone in this world and love him or her, there is no guarantee that he or she will ever love you back.
This is the reality of this world.
I, God, however, am a God who absolutely loves those who love me.
Because my heart is drawn to where there is love, I will look at how much you love me and decide how much I will love that person.
Unlike the unstable love of a choosy human being, which can change dizzyingly depending on the mood and circumstances of the moment, I believe that God's love is the only sure and certain truth.
Rapt has passed through many oppressions of speech, perhaps even in danger of his life at times, and has been surrounded by many enemies, and is now in a state of fullness of blessings.
The reason for this, I believe, is that he has not been running for worldly gain or for his own self-preservation, but rather, with a single-minded heart, for the sake of God's pleasure and for the salvation of humankind, he has been running in accordance with God's will.
I feel that by knowing how much God truly loves and protects Rapt, I will be able to further understand God's love and truth in a deeper way.
There are levels and dimensions to love.
Another way to put it would be to say that there are “stages”.
There is a stage where you love me while loving other things; there is a stage where you love other things but love me a little more; there is a stage where you love other things but love me with a stronger love; there is a stage where you love me without any regard for other things.
And I hope that step by step you will move up the stages and come to love Me.
But even if I guide and train you to love me more, many of you will not be able to bear it and will not try to raise the level of love any further.
Somewhere in their hearts, they become defensive or give priority to pursuing their own gain.
I believe that God does not take no notice of us until we are completely perfect, but He also blesses us according to our stage of growth, and He also encourages and guides us to further growth.
Even if we sometimes feel that God's love is harsh, we must accept it as a process to grow, to come closer to God, and to deepen our love with God, and we must respond to God's love by working hard with strong faith.
But who will truly love me in the highest dimension and love me in the highest stages?
Who will love me at the highest level, and do my will at the highest level, to please me with all his heart?
With this in mind, I am always watching each and every one of you.
Please pray that we can restore the original diligence and perseverance that many people have for the sake of God's will.
I pray from the bottom of my heart that God's will be done in a magnificent way so that we can follow the example of Rapt, turn to God, unite our hearts and minds, and please God.
And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You.
For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them.
Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
<John 17 :5-11>
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