“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.”  My underline.

John 17:24

Once again, Jesus not only speaks of love but sees everything through the eyes of the love that binds God and Jesus – the most ancient love we can comprehend, love that loved before the creation of the world.

I am just beginning to understand the fundamental truth, that God the Father and God the Son loved one another and with that very same love, they love us.  There in the Upper Room Jesus explains to his disciples this truth that opens doors and windows in all directions.  In a few short hours he will give his life an Atonement for sin, a deed that grants us salvation.  I tend to think about that aspect of my salvation, I seldom rejoice in the love that bound Father and Son.  Jesus declares that it is the explanation for everything!

That love, the bedrock of all our theology, precedes the Creation and supersedes it as the key that opens all the doors of grace.  Does that mean that without that love bond there would be no creation, no physical life as we know it?  Does it mean that love is at the heart of all we can possibly know?  Yes, and yes.

Jesus saved me and presented me to his Father who accepted me with open arms, and invited me to experience the very love that produced the universe!

Can I grasp that?  Can I build my life on it?  Through the Spirit of the Lord, that is not only possible but essential.