Living with God 4

Lesson 4 (Know I am loved)

Deuteronomy 7:7 "The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people".

Deuteronomy 7:8 a "But because the LORD loved you".

We can move into, and claim our inheritance because of this verse of assurance. The children of Israel must have been apprehensive about moving into a land that was not theirs. I want us to consider that the claiming of the land is not about the physical landscape of the land of Israel but about us finding that place where God is and then finding a God who we can be still with. "Be still and know that I am God". Psalm 46:10

We have been given the opportunity to explore the deep heart of God, to come into His presence and enjoy the freedom of "living in the promised land". It is of great consolation that God has set His love on us not because we were anything special but just because He loved us. It is this love that compels us forward, or into the rest. Charles Wesley wrote:-

1:LORD, I believe a rest remain
To all thy people known,
A rest where pure enjoyment reigns,
And thou art loved alone.


2:A rest, where all our souls desire
Is fixed on things above;
Where fear, and sin, and grief expire,
Cast out by perfect love.

3:O that I now the rest might know,
Believe, and enter in!
Now, Saviour, now the power bestow,
And let me cease from sin.

Complete Hymn

God wants to bring us to discover this rest for ourselves. It is because God loves us that we are able to confidently approach the throne of Grace and find all the help we need.

This love of God is so immense, so unfathomable and so unmeasurable that we can never fully appreciate it. This love is what makes us and transforms us into a person who is different. But God knows that we will fail and we will look at that later on in the chapter, but never the less it is the knowledge that we have a God who's love transcends far beyond our wildest dreams and reaches us at our lowest point and stretches to our most exhilarated heights. It is because of this great love and our knowledge of this great love that we can live in hope and expectancy of entering into our rest, into our promised land.

Remember God has gone before, He is in front. Deuteronomy 6:10 and Deuteronomy 7:1 Let us begin to find that REST in Almighty God and live a life that trust's the community that is God and knows the fact that the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord" Deuteronomy 6:4,

We are sustained by the completeness of God not by separate strands of His being. Know that we are loved and that God is committed to our well being and our safety. There is no better place to be than in the hands of the living God.