Radiant Love

Have you ever stood close enough to a person who is overflowing with the Spirit of God that you felt God’s Presence radiating from them? There are plenty of anointed people who can function in a spiritual gift, but there is a difference when someone is releasing the Presence of God from their being. Those are people that I just want to sit near so that I can soak in that atmosphere.

Last night, I dreamed that a man walked by where I was standing. Later in the dream, I found out that he was another believer, but I did not know that in the beginning of the dream scene. He was an ordinary middle age man, but he had something special flowing from his being: Love. When he walked by me, I felt very tangible love moving outward from him.

As Christians, we try to love people, both through an emotional affection and through practical kindness. Oftentimes, I find that it is a love that is intentionally produced for a specific person or group. This love in the dream was different. It was warm and inviting, and yet, it was an identity in itself. It did not exist solely for my benefit or as a response to me. It existed and was stable in itself. It radiated from the man in the dream. I wanted to walk up to him and hug him just so that I could keep experiencing this love.

It gives me hope that God will yet release a love through us that will be radically different than what our best efforts can produce. This dream also inspires a renewed hunger in my heart for the love that I experienced. There is more to the Presence of God that we can imagine. Jesus is complete and stable in his own person, and he invites us to enter into his Presence.