July 4. When will I be satisfied? I made known to them your name and I will continue to make it known

that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.

Imagine being able to enjoy what is most enjoyable

with unbounded and increasing energy and passion forever.

This is not now our experience. Three things stand in the way of our complete satisfaction in

this world. One, nothing in this world has a personal worth great enough to meet the deepest

longings of our hearts. Two, we lack the strength to savor the best treasures to their maximum worth.

Three, our enjoyment of things here come to an end. Nothing lasts. But if the aim of Jesus in John 1726

comes true, all this will change. He prays to his Father about us. I made known to them your name

and I will continue to make it known that the love with which you have loved me may be in them

and I in them. God does not love the Son the way he loves sinners. He loves the Son because the

Son is infinitely worthy of love. That is, he loves the Son because the Son is infinitely

lovely, which means that this love is totally pleasure. Jesus prays that this pleasure that

God has in his Son will be the same pleasure we have in the Son. If God's pleasure in the Son

becomes our pleasure, then the object of our pleasure, Jesus, will be inexhaustible in personal

worth. He will never become boring or disappointing or frustrating. No greater treasure can be conceived

than the Son of God. But add to this what Jesus prays for namely that our ability, our energy,

our passion to savor this inexhaustible treasure will not be limited by human weaknesses.

We will enjoy the Son of God with the very enjoyment of his omnipotent Father.

God's delight in his Son will be in us and it will be ours and this will never end

because neither the Father nor the Son ever ends. Their love for each other will be our love

for them and therefore our loving them will never die.

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