Studying each other

What could be more interesting than knowing someone or something? We are arranged so that the very fact of knowing the One True God and Jesus sent by Him is the most important matter and Eternal life itself. John 17:3. In each of us is embedded a thirst for knowledge and hunger for learning. We simply cease to be healthy people if we stop learning and discovering something new.

God is very beautiful and infinitely amazing in the beauty of His character. There is nothing more wonderful than discovering new facets of God's love for yourself and rejoicing that you have seen something new, great and inaccessible in God that you did not know before. The Lord does not hide Himself, but joyfully reveals Himself to those who thirst to know more and deeper about Him. And this knowledge leads us to a common denominator, in which it is written that God is Love. This is that Eternal realization on which everything can be built and any truth and science can be known in the correct light.

Human love, although it is a weak reflection of Heavenly agape, but defiled by selfishness, cannot bring good fruit.

God's love, which we receive through Christ, will never destroy our human attachment, but will wrap it in itself and make it a perfect and powerful force capable of destroying strongholds. Thanks to this union, human love becomes more sensitive, wise, responsive, refined, deep, bringing much fruit and carrying light and power from above for healing wounded souls.

A family in which God's love reigns is the brightest witness of God's love to this world. Giving His disciples the commandment about loving one another, Jesus included in this concept not only His single followers, but also those who under the influence of this love will decide to create a marital union and in this merging of two hearts reflect the beauty of God's agape.

Husband and wife loving each other with Christ's love is the best and strongest testimony in favor of God and His love. There is no more pleasant place on earth than that home where God's love reigns between brother and sister in Christ. And it is Jesus who makes this attachment living and active.

In marriage you are free to express all your sincere and tender experiences, share affectionate words and say many all kinds of beautiful things that in ordinary friendship may sound inappropriate and suspicious.

It is love that opens wide opportunities for knowing God, both in personal communion with Him and in our relationships with a loving friend. God is beautiful in our mutual love and joyfully reveals Himself to us in our friendly relationships, endowing us with purity of thoughts and perfection of His unconditional agape. And we, understanding that we can sincerely love each other only thanks to the abundance of God's love, tirelessly ask Him for its presence in our relationships and receive what we ask for in abundance. This abundance is enough for other people with whom we meet in life.

The thirst for knowledge, sanctified by God's love, is capable of revealing to us the true meaning of things and any science in the correct key. After all, every law is created by the Creator and embedded in that subject or in those relationships with which we deal.

Deciding to engage in new discoveries in our family, my wife and I began to study each other and the features of our relationships, trying to identify patterns, points of contact between the Divine and human, binding interconnections and development trends. As a result of these studies, we understood that everything surrounding us and relating to us proceeds from the same Divine hands, is created by Him to serve Him and reflect His love.

We decided to study our intimate sphere of life, into which we let no one except God. A whole science of relationships was revealed to us, which is so tasty and beautiful in the light of mutual love, tenderness and harmony that you marvel at the creative potential that the Creator embedded in these relationships.

We simply take some facts and begin to discuss them, sharing our thoughts, guesses, discoveries and revelations, and we discover a harmonious world, special advantages and possibilities in marital relationships that will never be revealed so beautifully outside of marriage.

And if we consider that we are created in the image and likeness of God, then we enter into an incomprehensible world of guesses and assumptions about how the Lord experiences this, having endowed us with these amazing feelings and thoughts.

Many experiences and discoveries in the science of our close relationships so touch and bring us closer to each other that there are no words to correctly describe everything happening inside us. And we simply love each other and become ever closer and dearer in this love.

And it is so simple to respond to the love of one who is your other half and does not mind being it, and does everything possible to put all his love into every word, action and thought about you. You simply cannot respond with something else, because love overcomes everything and dominates in everything.

Sometimes we become so joyful in our love for each other that we have to force ourselves to be a little more serious. But this does not always work out.

Love does not cancel our daily duties, but makes them easy and interesting. It is so great to do something for a beloved person and understand that every your deed and contribution to his happiness brings wonderful fruit in our relationships. And all this becomes beautiful thanks to the constant presence of God's agape among us.

Wishing to study each other, we encounter the same wise laws of our Creator, embedded in our human nature. We are such not because we decided so, but because the Lord created this in us, putting all His wisdom and power. We only need to delve into our structure and identify the beautiful and regular that is revealed to us in the light of this deep knowledge of each other.

In our study and research we can freely touch each other, enter personal space, ask any questions and receive frank answers. And love opens such depths to us in this process that you marvel at how interesting and tasty we are inside.

If we consider the fact that we are as deep and mysterious in our features and abilities as the Lord Himself, in whose likeness we were created, then we can only admire the infinite prospects of discoveries in each other that await us.

Only mutual love can descend to the most hidden depth of our hearts to reveal deeper layers there, inside which new depths are discovered.

And all this becomes our discovery and possession, which is difficult for us to describe in words for outside ears, but we understand even without words what was revealed to us, and how beautiful this is.

But the greatest blessing we receive is when we begin to know God in exactly the same way, plunging into the depth of His infinitely good heart to discover there new possibilities for researching other depths of His beautiful character.

And our mutual love with God reveals such amazing things in our relationships that you never stop marveling at this.

1. Please read 1 John 1:7; John 8:31-36; 13:34-35; Jer. 31:34; 33:3; Ps. 45:11; 99:3; Isa. 33:13; 1 Cor. 13:12-13; Prov. 4:1-13; Eccl. 1:8; 2:13; Heb. 8:10-12 in light of this lesson.

2. What other verses from the Bible came to your memory?

3. What did you understand from this topic?

4. Is it worth studying each other in the family?

5. Can friends also study each other?

6. What does deeper knowledge of a friend give?

7. What is the depth of a friend's heart into which you were let?

8. Does God desire to reveal the depth of His heart and let us in there?

9. What consists in deep knowledge of God and each other?

10. Is it possible without mutual love to know someone or let someone know yourself?

11. What will knowledge without love lead to?

12. What advantage does deep knowledge of the one I love give me?

13. Is your heart open to your friends?

14. Does God desire to study us?

15. If I voice my discoveries in a friend, does this help the friend know himself better too?