“I fought for you!”

The fullness of God’s love for us may seem like a mystery. The unveiling of its intensity occurs over time as the Word reveals its depth and complexity. We encounter His love verse by verse, chapter by chapter. It is not hidden as if it were a secret, but the human mind limits our understanding. Its unveiling is a supernatural process, meant to be understood. The Holy Spirit takes away all hiddenness, causing revelation to flood our minds, inform our thoughts, and cascade over our lives. Flooded by grace to know God’s love, we learn we are valuable and adored by our heavenly Father, Abba! Our value is revealed and confirmed to be totally separate from our actions, from work of any kind. We are actually positioned in the Lord to know His love. United with His Spirit, we know the things that are from God (1 Corinthians 2:12). He desires to open our understanding to His wisdom and knowledge about His love (Ephesians 1:16,17). This is our inheritance… This inheritance reflects His glory; it displays His majesty, magnificence, greatness, and generosity of who God is. It is His divine fullness that we now possess according to His love (Ephesians 1:18; 2 Peter 1:4). Now, by supernatural revelation of the Holy Spirit, who leads us into all truth (John 14:26; John 16:13), we may understand God’s truth and live a lifestyle reflective of our inheritance; we may live a lifestyle understanding and reflective of God’s love for us. And this is how He revealed His love and continues to reveal it to us…

Jesus fought for us! He fought for us to experience this lifestyle. Every attack against Him, the temptation in the desert, the manipulation against him by religious leaders, the betrayal by a friend, the denial by Peter, the agony in the Garden, the suffering of physical affliction and crucifixion, and public humiliation, showed Jesus fighting for us to be able to experience a lifestyle of inheritance that God prepared and destined for His children. He chose us to be His highly favored ones, blessing us with favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift, spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing (John 1:16 Amp); this is our inheritance of His love! We are always overcomers, no matter the trial. We are privileged to be blessed with victory because Jesus fought for us!

What are the riches of the glory of His inheritance to His children (Ephesians 1:18)? Verse by verse, chapter by chapter of His Word, He shows us more and more… The magnitude of His inheritance, which is the magnitude of His love to us, is a step-by-step discovery by faith.

Jesus fought to give us life, in abundance, to the full, until it overflows (John 10:10 Amp). He is the Good Shepherd who risked His life for us (John 10:11 Amp).

Jesus endured grievous opposition from sinners, bitter hostility against Him (Hebrews 12:3 Amp). Yet, all He did was display loving-kindness and tender mercy. He struggled and fought agonizingly against sin, resisting and withstanding to the point of pouring out His own blood (Hebrews 12: 4 Amp). This was Jesus fighting for us! Then it was finished (John 19:30). He made a way for us to have an inheritance by His death. The completeness of our life came from His dying. An invitation to a relationship, growing in knowledge of who He is, what He did, and what we possess, is His provision for us, which came from death and led to resurrection! His resurrection to new life is our new life. Jesus’ flow of life is now a continuous opportunity for His children if we choose to believe!

We see evidence of Jesus’ completed work because He is now seated at the right hand of the Father, “far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named” (Ephesians 1:21). And we are in union with Him, sharing in His completed work (Ephesians 2:5). This is the result of Jesus’ fight for us. This is the Father satisfying His great love for us by sacrificing His Son (Ephesians 2:4 Amp). And Jesus accomplished this when we were dead in our sins. He saved us by grace, by His desire for us and the intensity of His love (Ephesians 2:5 Amp).

Jesus fought for us… this is His love for us in action! He fought with us on His mind; knowing this truth helps us to understand His love. Jesus proved that we were the joy set before Him (Hebrews 12:2). “…His heart was focused on the joy of knowing that we would be His”, so He “endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation…” (Hebrews 12:2 TPT).

With this understanding of how personal Jesus’ fight was for us, “Let the dawning day bring us revelation of His tender, unfailing love” (Psalm 143:8 TPT). When we understand His love for us, we trust Him. We trust and desire His ways because we know He has our best interests in His heart; He proved it! “Give us light for our path and teach us, for we trust in You” (Psalm 143:8). Our response to His love should be worship, obedience, and an intimate relationship. Psalm 143:10 confirms, “I just want to obey all You ask of me.” Our desire should be to learn from Him as He teaches and guides us. He has good paths for our lives and has all we need. Led by the Lord on these good paths pleases Him, as we trust Him, our one and only God (Psalm 143:10 TPT). As He does this, it brings Him glory, revealing that He is true to His promises (Psalm 143:11 TPT). In this way, His goodness is revealed to us and through us with the world as a witness to His abundance and love.

By Jesus’ fight for us, we know that love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:7). His love “is large and incredibly patient (1 Corinthians 13:4 TPT); it is gentle and consistently kind; it rejoices when we receive His blessing because we believe His love for us; it causes Him to treat us with respect and never looms over us with an attitude of greatness that is oppressive; it never causes us to be ashamed but is kind in giving direction, wisdom and help; it is never forceful; it “is not easily irritated or quick to take offense” (1 Corinthians 13:5 TPT); it joyfully celebrates our triumphs as overcomers; it is always for us and never against us; “…it is our safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for us” (1 Corinthians 12:7 TPT); it never gives up on us even when we fail (1 Corinthians 13:4-7 TPT). Jesus fought with intense love to bless us!