Be In Me | Bewithme

So the love You have loved Me with may be in them, and I may be in them. John 17:26. HCSB

How can this be? The depth of meaning latent in this prayer is unthinkable, inconceivable, beyond all human comprehension, and the most outrageous imaginings. The immeasurable love of God, the very definition of love, a God who is love as his very substance, who is infinite in love, whose heart is swollen with love to the very bursting point, who has radiated an entire immense universe borne of and infused with that love. He has begotten a Son from that very intensity. Nothing in all eternity has so pleased and delighted him, nothing has so filled his heart, his very Son, treasured beyond any human measure of love, cherished with the very essence of delight. A love measured by the immeasurable, infinite heart of God, a love that extends to the heavens, and a heavens with no end.

"Let this love be in them." This love, this indivisible love, this love of such immensity, this love of eternal fire, this love of overwhelming intensity, of matchless quality, of pure intent, of furious desire, this love! Who has known the mind of the Lord, that he would be so consumed, a consuming fire, a fire of desire, no less, a passion beyond all imagining, a warring fury. He would woo, he would pine, he would wait, he would watch; he would watch, he would love.

Could I ever feel such? Could my heart contain even the tiniest measure of such a desire? Could I? "Let this love be in them." Is my heart capable of such expansion, could it swell with even a measured dose of such immensity? Could it bear the intensity of such a burning? Who am I, if this be my truth?

It would be enough, were the prayer to stop there. But the unimaginable has taken an even deeper plunge, something even more unthinkable. Words fail! "...and I may be in them." Indeed, who am I? Who can I be, that the very pleading of the Creator of all existence, he who holds all things together by the word of his power, whose immensity is outdone only by his purity and beauty, is to be in me. To be contained within me. To desire an intimacy so intertwined, so enmeshed, we would be one! The intensity of this prayer goes beyond any words, any song, any imagining. It will take an eternity to comprehend, for it is incomprehensible.

O unthinkable beauty, O loveliness beyond words, be with me, be in me! Come over me like a flood, move into my space. Beautiful lover, flood my being; I want you. I want nothing else. I want nothing less. All of me longs for all of you, for just this, that we would be one. That all my being would be yours, and all your being would be mine. Together, one, in such unimaginable merging. You and I, I and you. My love forever, my unquenchable desire. A yearning that consumes. O heavenly sweetness infuse in me this beauty. Pure Lord, I love you. Be in me.