Creative depth

Communicating with a beloved person, I understand that I am dealing not with a simple friend, but with one whom my soul loves. And love possesses creative power and is capable of creating from nothing something beautiful that becomes a special blessing for both of us, in which we feel good and comfortable.

This process is a natural consequence of love and appears in those relationships where agape takes root and begins to sprout and bear good fruit. The fruit of the Spirit is pleasant not only to the Heavenly Father, but also to those who produce it and taste it in mutual love.

My heart, receiving God's agape, begins to unquestioningly submit to Heavenly laws and live by them, without straining and without trying to observe God's commandments. When God writes His principles in the heart and in thoughts, then I can no longer live by other laws, because I do not want to do this, since my consciousness is united with Heaven and feeds from it.

Although I have enemies—my carnal nature and the forces of darkness, which constantly attack my mind with their temptations and seductions, but God has put enmity in me toward these companions and gives me constant victory in this struggle, while respecting my choice.

In mutual love with a friend, I understand that he should feel good and comfortable in communication with me. But we are completely different, and my "good" does not always suit his "good." And inviting a friend to the depth of my heart, I understand that he may see how deceitful and extremely corrupted it is. And what to do in such a case?

Human love is not very inventive in this matter. And if it has already tasted the Hollywood model of relationships, then it is easier for it to follow it, and then reap the bitter fruits of disappointment and consequences in the form of broken hearts.

God's love protects my heart from the power of sin and begins to create everything new in me. God says just that: "Behold, I make all things new" Rev. 21:5. And these words relate not only to the new earth, but also to the new heart, which allowed the Lord to create good soil in it and plant in it the good seed of God's love.

Our God is the Creator of all beautiful things, and His creative power has not been exhausted. The Lord continues to create beautiful things in my life, preparing me for relocation to the Heavenly dwellings.

"God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him" 1 John 4:16. God does not cease His creative activity, abiding in me, but does what only love is capable of. Just as I cannot control the work of my internal organs, but only nourish and maintain their normal vital activity through my healthy lifestyle and acceptance of the light of Sanitary Reform, so in my love for a friend not all processes are clear and subject to me. But I can study this creative potential and consciously use its power, setting goals for myself, directing my thoughts and feelings and calling God into my plans.

Love creates in me its "good," which I simply do not have in human nature, and I do not have enough imagination to create a depth of relationships that would be safe for my friend and me and create comfort for us, bringing mutual joy. And I am not alone in this creative process of our relationships. My loving friend also belongs to the same God and opens his heart to good changes that occur under the influence of God's grace.

The depth of our relationships in mutual love for each other, although ours, has one Author—God by the name of Love. It is God's love that creates in me what makes me a loving friend with a pure heart. It creates a place in my soul, taking into account all the features of the friend, all his claims and his freedom of choice.

And whoever my friend may be, brother or sister, my son or daughter, or my other half, love will always create something new in me specifically for this person. And in this we both will feel good.

I tried inviting other friends into the already existing "good," but noticed that our "good" with one friend completely does not suit other people. For them it is necessary to create what takes into account the dimensions of their soul and their features. And love knows how to do this.

And yet, if there are three or more of us in our love for each other, then with each of the friends I lovingly create my own depth of relationships, and for common use love creates that new depth where we all will feel good and comfortable, where we will be welcome, not worrying about inappropriate size and quality, and where other friends can be added with our consent. But it may also be that at the depth of our hearts from three people a fourth friend appears, whom we accept. In this case, love takes a copy of our depth and creates a new depth, taking into account our features and the revealed needs of the subsequent friend. And it turns out that the already created "good" for two or three does not suffer if the next friend appears, but continues to exist parallel to him already in the new "good," created for the new team.

My deep communication with my wife in the spirit of love and friendship does not prevent my heart from having depth of relationships with other people. And these depths of relationships do not merge into one whole, revealing secrets and mysteries of other friends, but very easily get along with each other while respecting the openness and freedom of each.

And at any depth of relationships the Lord lights His purifying fire, which melts us and makes our gold of relationships pure and very valuable for both of us. And this gold is such a precious treasure, and it can so abundantly enrich us that we become truly generous with love and know from Whom it comes, and where to get it. The Faithful Witness sells us exactly what mutually enriches us.

But for building any depth and any "good," time, my friend and I myself are needed. It is these components in combination with God's love that create in us that correct "comfort zone," from which no one will drive us out, and which we will take with us into Eternity, where we will feel completely good, and this will not cause anyone any complaints.

If I do not yet have love or a friend with whom I could create our common "good" and plunge into its depth, then remember that Jesus has much of this, and He advises acquiring this with all accompanying blessings from the same Hands. He desires to create everything new in my life too, and He succeeds at this when I invite Him into this life.

Our Savior has such great creative potential for blessing my friend and me in mutual love that if I say there is infinitely much of it, I will not be mistaken.

Studying the science of loving one another gives me a great advantage in that, knowing how love works and what it can do, I can cry out and ask God for more than I have today, and He will show me great and inaccessible things that I do not know. Understanding the laws of love, I do not fear their action in our friendship, but rejoice in this knowledge and can extract beautiful melodies of agape from few notes, understandable to both of us and carrying such "good" that only hearts loving each other can appreciate. And the sounds of such a song are pure and beautiful, because they have one Author, Who is Love.

1. Please read 1 John 4:16 and tell what you understood from this verse in light of our lesson?

2. Please also read: Phil. 2:13; 1 Cor. 13:4-8; John 13:35; 14:12,26; 15:5,9; 1 Pet. 1:22; Rom. 12:9-10; Isa. 65:17-19; Job 38:33; Gen. 1:1,27; Ps. 99:3; Rev. 3:7-8,18 in light of this lesson.

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

4. What did you understand from this topic?

5. Can a person create his own world with his friend or his neighbor by himself?

6. Did you understand what "good" means that belongs only to my friend and me?

7. Has the Lord endowed us with creative power for inventing unique relationships?

8. What can I create in my relationships with a friend if God is not there?

9. Is God's presence important in our love and friendship?

10. Does the Lord participate in the creative process of our happiness?

11. What to do if I have no experience in close communication with people?

12. Do you have such friends with whom you feel good or very good?

13. Is creating a "comfort zone" with your friend something bad, from which you need to urgently exit?

14. Have you noticed that you feel differently good with different friends?

15. Do you have plans to create a new depth of relationships with any of your friends?