Jesus' Last Will and Testament

1.) "Father I want them to be WITH ME where I am." 

Where is "with?" IN Him. You can't get any closer than "IN." The desire of Jesus' heart was that He would live IN us and we abide IN Him. Again and again throughout John 17 we see the intimacy that Jesus so passionately desires to have with us! He doesn't want to be next to us, in the same room as us, or the same building. He wants the closer than close, He wants us to abide IN Him. "This is where you live, right here." (Hitch) 

2.) "You thought He was making a decent little cottage and instead He made a palace and intends to live there." --C.S. Lewis.  All spaces are sacred because Jesus is IN us and therefore IN all things. The space is irrelevant. It is the person that matters, or rather Christ that matters. Thinking back to last summer and recalling Reid say time and time again, "Don't cling to these docks, cling to the person of Jesus." It's easy to have the mindset that sacredness or the holiness is in the place. When really it's in us! The love love doesn't stop just cause we leave the docks. It leaves home with us to invade our homes, work places, schools, etc. 

3.) "It would take an eternity to know the fullness of God." 

We will never fully comprehend the love the Father has for us. But every day He invites into the intimacy and fullness of the love between the Father and the Son. Everyday we can sink deeper into His love and every day we get to abide IN Him. Thinking to what Torrey has mentioned over this past weekend about using our senses to draw near, to be aware of the His presence. Lord may You give us the eyes to see Your presence and ears to hear Your voice that surrounds us each day. Awaken our senses to grasp the enormity and presence of the love You have for us.  May we daily accept Your invitation to abide IN You.