If someone tells you something and your response is, "I don't understand!" then what they just told you--true though it may be--doesn't do you any good. That's why its so important to let God reveal His immutable truth to you. He gives us an understanding. He doesn't expect us to "figure it out." He doesn't expect us to earn it. He simply gives it freely and teaches us how to receive it and release it. Teaches us by never changing. By filling us to overflowing so that what's inside comes out naturally. We THINK we need to pull flower petals and hope and pray that we land on "He loves me" instead of "He loves me not." But in reality all we have to do is let Him love us. Let the mind of Christ (that's already in us) BE in us. And let that mind transform us by renewing us. See, as disciples we are students of love. And we learn HOW to love by learning how WE are loved. Remember the difference between Adam (God's son) and Jesus (God's beloved Son)? The difference is not that God loved one and not the other. God IS love. In order to not love someone God would have to stop being God. And even if He COULD do that... He wouldn't. No, the difference is that Jesus let Himself BE LOVED by God. That's what it means to be beloved. Jesus knew who He was, and He knew who His Father was. And He came to earth to show us that immutable truth. To show us that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands... and to show us that WE are that Son that the Father loves! He has given all things into OUR hands. He has blessed us with all Spiritual blessings. He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. He has equipped and empowered to live (and to love, because those are the same thing) by filling us with His Holy Spirit. The Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth. That gives us the understanding of His love. And, yeah, sometimes it takes time. Here a little, there a little. Baby steps. And, yeah, sometimes you stumble. But IF you fall He can help you back up. And according to Jude 1:24 He is able to keep you from falling altogether. Guys, it's a never-ending life-long journey into the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter, of course, being the heart. So don't get discouraged if you don't "get it" right now. I've always said, "If you don't know what to do... do what you know." Follow your heart. Because your heart knows the way. Your heart--after the cross made a circumcision without hands and cut away the flesh of human effort--has been revealed to be God's heart beating in your chest. Beating with love. It's in there. And when we receive that engrafted Word (which is Jesus, which is love) with meekness... when we stop trying to "figure it out" or make it be something it's not meant to be... that's when it can be what it is. That's when YOU can be WHO YOU ARE. And who you are... is Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. Filling you to overflowing as you fill yourself with the fulness of God. As you come into a deeper understanding of what--of WHO--love is. Love is giving. Love is you. You giving yourself to others just as Jesus gave Himself for you, and to you. You can't understand that kind of love on your own. It seems too good to be true. But Jesus reveals that love to you, and in you, and through you, and as you. And then you comprehend!

Here's where I think comprehension comes in the most handy--unfortunately, it's also where comprehension is the hardest: When we don't understand... that's when we need to understand the most. When things look "bad." When we don't know what's happening, or why. When things look dark. But don't they say things always look darkest before the dawn? Aren't we talking about a knowledge that PASSES knowledge? If we could figure it out we wouldn't need God to reveal it to us. We wouldn't need to trust Him. God told the apostle Paul that His strength is made perfect in weakness. When we can't... that's when He can, and will. God doesn't necessarily call you according to you ability. He calls according to availability! He doesn't want us wandering around in the dark--and that's why He said, "Let there be light"--but He also doesn't depend on our human understanding. When Jesus described the greatest love a man can have, laying His life down for His friends, He was flying in the face of conventional wisdom. Because to the carnal mind "love" is all about GETTING. That's not really love at all though. That's selfishness. Love IS giving. I've heard it said you can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. And it's not until we understand--comprehend--God's love for us... "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoeve believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16)... that we can love each other. It's not until we understand--comprehend--God's love for us, that we can truly live. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. That's why life seems so confusing so much of the time. Because we get off the straight and narrow path that leads unto life (the highway of holiness... which is LOVE) and we start looking for love in all the wrong places. We try OUR best, without even understanding that OUR best isn't nearly enough. Let me say it another way, "...With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27). When we stop trying to "figure it out" or "do it ourselves" or "get it ourselves" that's when we can rest. We can be still and know that He is God. Know that God is love. Know that instead of looking for love in all the wrong places, trying to understand why nothing we do is working, we can simply receive and release the love that has already been given to us. We can receive with meekness the engrafted Word. The Word is already in there. And the Word is love. LOVE is already in there. And love is simple. Love is giving. God wanted the best for us, so He gave the best TO us. He gave us His only begotten Son so that we might KNOW that we are His Son(s). The Holy Spirit, our love receptor, has equipped and empowered us to receive and release the everlasting life of God. The LOVE of God. And that might SEEM too good to be true, but really it is so good it MUST be true. Really it is the ultimate truth of the universe. The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. Daddy loves you and gave you everything you need. "But that doesn't make sense!" Not to the carnal mind. But to the mind of Christ it's the only thing that could possibly make sense. It's a knowledge that PASSES knowledge. And you don't have to figure it out. Because God is revealing it to you, and in you, and through you, and as you!

Sometimes it takes that "Aha!" moment before you can truly comprehend (or understand) what you know. When the truth becomes true to you. When it becomes real. Not just an idea, or something you've read, or something someone has told you, but something you've experienced. This happened to Saul of Tarsus when he was knocked off his donkey and blinded by the light. All of a sudden everything changed. Even his name. Saul became Paul. His very identity changed when the truth was revealed to him. He had been running around persecuting the followers of Christ... thinking he was doing God's work. He "knew" he was on the right side of things. Until he KNEW the truth. The truth set him free, and made him free. Let me say it another way, "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life" (1 John 5:20). Did you catch that? We KNOW that He is come... and we KNOW that He has given us an understanding. Just as He has given us THE measure of faith--by proving Himself faithful--HE has given us an understanding. We don't have to try really hard to figure things out. Spiritual things don't make sense to the carnal mind. The more we try to figure it out on our own, the more mixed up we get. We get on a path and we think it's right... but the end of it is death. But until we receive with meekness that engrafted Word, we'll keep stumbling around in the dark. The blind will keep leading the blind and everyone will end up in a ditch. That's about all we can accomplish on our own. We can bang our heads against the wall, but all we'll earn is a headache. Because it's not about earning. And it's not about what we can do on our own. It's about Jesus. It's about love. Jesus, revealing Himself to us, and in us, and through us, and as us. Receiving and releasing the love of God. Loving Him by loving one another. Loving one another as He loves us. Comprehending the height, and length, and depth, and breadth of His love... by sharing it with others. Loving big because we are loved big. That's what a disciple of Jesus is; a never-ending life-long studen of love. Learning to love as we learn HOW we are loved. Letting God love us and filling ourselves to overflowing with that love so that it comes out of us naturally. The understanding--the revelation--He gives us is what makes the truth true for us. It's is what equips and empowers us to live in Him. Because we KNOW that He lives in us. And step by step, day by day, we learn what it means to have love living in us. We learn and grow. We mature. We don't become more complete or perfect--because we are already complete and perfect in Him, because He is complete and perfect in us--but we learn what it means to BE complete and perfect. As HE reveals HIMSELF to us, and in us, and through us, and as us. So we start with the foundation. And build. Little by little. Line upon line. Precept upon precept. And then--usually when we least expect it--the light turns on. We see things clearly. We KNOW, with a knowledge that passes knowledge, what it means to be loved. What it means to love. Aha!

The other day I was talking to my five year old son, Logan. And I was giving him this whole big speech, and he was nodding along. So when I finished I said, "Got it, bub?" And he said, "Yep!" But then he turned his head and looked me dead in the eye and said, "Wait. What did I just agree to?" Because while he might have heard me... he didn't HEAR me. And there's a big difference. Jesus spoke about it in the parable of the sower and the seed. Mark 4:5-6, "And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away." That's how it is sometimes. Something goes in one ear and out the other without taking up root. That's why it's so important--remember our key passage for this Rant?--to be rooted and grounded in love. And guess what, the seed is the Word. The Word is love. It's all about love. Knowing that we are loved is what allows us to love. And since to live is to love and to love is to live... knowing that we are loved is what equips and empowers us to live! And since this life--Jesus' life--is abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life that means it is a never ending life-long journey into the heart of the matter. Which, of course, is the heart. God's heart beating with love in our chests. See, the immutable (unchangeable) truth is that God loves us. He always has and He always will. The problem is that we don't necessarily know (or believe) this truth. And while the truth sets (and makes) you free... the truth you KNOW is what really matters. The truth you know with a knowledge that passes knowledge. Heart knowledge, not head knowledge. Look at James 1:21, "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." It's an engrafted word. It's already in there. You have to comprehend love with your heart, because love lives in your heart. But you also have to RECEIVE the engrafted word. Because, again, if you don't know the truth it doesn't help you very much. And if you "know" it, but you don't KNOW it then it's not real to you. It's like the seed sown on the stony ground. It's someone telling you they love you and you rolling your eyes. Because you don't believe it. Can't believe it. They can't possibly love me... I'm not good enough. That's the lie that Eve swallowed in the garden of Eden. Because she didn't comprehend the love of Christ. Couldn't, without the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our love receptor. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth. Jesus is the One who proved His love for us by laying down His life for us. Giving His life FOR us, and giving His life TO us. Giving His heart to us. Giving His Spirit to us. Filling us with faith (which works by love) by proving Himself faithful. Allowing us to comprehend His love for us--His love IN us--by revealing Himself to us, and in us, and through us. We make things way too hard sometimes. There's a simplicity in Christ that is really easy to understand. The Father loveth the Son. God loves you. It's all about love!

I believe in repetition as a very effective way to learn something. That's one of the reasons I read the Bible from cover to cover once a year. I'm building that foundation. So that when someone brings new light--new revelation--to a verse, or passage, I have a general knowledge of what they're talking about... even as they peel another layer off of the onion. But, as I always say, there's a difference between knowing something... and KNOWING something. There's a difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge. Between knowing... and understanding. Or, as we're about to see, comprehending. We touched on this passage in the last Rant series but I really want to dig into it here. Ephesians 3:17-19, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." First things first: If you're not rooted and grounded in love you can't comprehend how big love is. It seems too good to be true. Something that you have to earn. Something that you're not good enough to have right now, but maybe someday, if you jump through all the right hoops, you might be able to have someday. That's a lie though. That's the first lie that was ever told. "If you eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil you'll be like God." "You have to do in order to be." NOT TRUE. But it was easily swallowed. Because to the carnal mind it made perfect sense. "Of course I'm not good enough. But if I gain enought knowledge about good and evil I can do good, stop doing evil and become good enough!" Again: WRONG! The biggest problem with the serpent's lie is that he told us to do something in order to be like God... when we were already created in His image. That's why what Jesus did on the cross--CONFORMING us to His image--was so important. He showed us the truth in order to defeat the lie. And look at this: The love of Christ is known with a knowledge that passes knowledge. It's not knowledge of good and evil. It's not head knowledge. It's heart knowledge. It's knowledge of love. Knowing the truth and the truth that we know setting us free and making us free. Hebrews 5:14 speaks of discerning BOTH good and evil. Understanding that they are both on the same tree. And understanding that we are not to eat from that tree at all. There's a more excellent way. An entirely different tree. The Tree of Life. The vine, that we are connected to, that produces the fruit of the Spirit--which is love. When the Bible says, "God is love," the word love means "love feast." Because you are what you eat. Repetition is good. But there's something deeper. Revelation. The Bible is a living Word because it can speak to us. A verse you've read 100 times can suddenly mean something you never even thought of before. Because all of a sudden you COMPREHEND a verse that you KNEW. All of a sudden the scales fall from your eyes and you see something new. (And by something new I mean new to you, because love is the beginning. It is the Word we heard from the beginning. We just didn't quite comprehend what we were hearing.) Knowledge can only pass knowledge when it goes past the head into the heart. When we let the mind of Christ (that's already in us) BE in us!

Jesus is the truth. The truth about God and the truth about you. Who God is--your loving heavenly Father--and who you are--His beloved Son in whom He is wel pleased. And since we're talking about identity, Jesus is the immutable truth. The unchanging truth. His being pleased with you isn't about what you do. It's about who you are, and who He is. His love for you doesn't change. It's not about earning His love. Not about picking flower petals and hoping you land on "He loves me," instead of "He loves me not." It's about knowing (and believing) the truth... and that truth setting you free and making you free. It's about having an anchor to keep you still. "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God" (Ephesians 3:17-19). The immutable truth of God's love for us is what equips and empowers us to love. We are rooted and grounded in His love. And when we start with love--remember, Jesus (God in the flesh, love in a body) is the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end--we begin to experience Jesus' abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life. We don't let any wind of doctrine blow us around, because we are planted on the Rock and we cannot be shaken. We don't let the world dictate to us, because we know that we are in the world but not of the world. We know that we are IN the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Love) and we ARE the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Love)! When you know the truth you don't even have to listen to the lie. You don't even have to give it the time of day. You can lay aside the sin (unbelief) that so easily besets you. You can stop trying to get something you think you haven't got... because you know exactly what you have. You can stop trying to be someone you think you aren't... because you know exactly who you are. That's what it means when we talk about the truth setting us free and making us free. The truth means we can stop looking for love in all the wrong places, because the truth is we've found it. We've found it at the source. We are connected to the source. He is the vine and we are the branches. He produces the fruit of the Spirit--which is love--and we bear it, or carry it, to those who need it. (Which, by the way, is everybody.) We all need love. And that's why the truth is so important. Because just like in the Wizard of Oz, the very thing we need is the very thing inside of us the whole time. We just didn't know it. It seemed too good to be true, when really it is so good it MUST be true. There's nothing in this world more important than love. And the truth of the matter is... that's not just what we have... that's who we are.  Jesus is the truth about God, and the truth about us. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. So we don't try to earn it. We simply receive it and release it. We know the truth, and believe the truth, and share the truth with anyone we come into contact with!

Nothing can change about God's love for us. God IS love. In order for Him to stop loving us, He'd have to stop being God. And even if that was possible, it would never happen. I always say it like this, "God is not mad AT you, He's mad ABOUT you." God is head over heels in love with you. He loves you so much that He would rather die than be without you. That's what happened on the cross. He died (both for us and as us) so that we might live (for Him and as Him). He gave His life for us, and He gave His life to us. And in so doing He proved His love for us. Because in John 15:13 Jesus said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." He told us what the greatest expression of love was... and then He went to the cross and did that very thing. He expressed His love to us. He told us the truth, and He showed us the truth. He put His money where His mouth was. He gave us faith by giving us something to believe in. By proving Himself faithful. We can trust Him because He proved Himself trustworthy. He built us a foundation that we can stand on, and build on. Something unchanging. Unshakeable. Something true. Something real. Love is all you need, right? And through the Holy Spirit--our love receptor--love is what we KNOW we have. Because, remember, God always has and always will love us. That's the immutable truth. His love doesn't change no matter what we do, or what happens. The cross did not change us into something that God could all of a sudden love. The cross changed us into something that could finally receive His love. Receive it and release it. And that's what it means to build on the foundation. We don't just receive His love. That's the first part, because you can't give what you don't have. But then there's a second part. We give what we have. We release the love that is filling us to overflowing. We let what's inside come out, because we know and believe that it's in there. We love God (by loving others) because He first loved us. The truth--that He IS--equips and empowers us to truly live. Because to live is to love, and to love is to live. Without one you can't have the other. Because they are the same thing. Love is the difference between life and death. If you know that you are loved, you can love. You can share what you have. And by sharing it you make it bigger and more real. You don't just know the truth, or believe the truth, you LIVE the truth. The truth that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. The truth that your heavenly Father loves you and has given all things into YOUR hands. Because that's the truth about US. That's who we really are. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. And that means that just as He laid His life down for you, you can lay your life down for others. Just as you are loved... you can love. In fact, that's the New Commandment for the New Man: Love one another as Jesus loves you. Receive it and release it. Know the truth, and believe the truth, and let the truth (that you know and believe) set you free and make you free. Free FROM sin (unbelief) and death. Free TO live and love!

The immutable truth of God's love for us is unchanging. It's true no matter what. But the key to the truth is KNOWING and BELIEVING it. Because even though God loves you no matter what... even though He always has and always will love you... if you don't know it, it doesn't really do much for you. Because if you don't know that you are loved, you will look for love in all the wrong places. You will do anything and everything in order to get that love. I think that's why we end up in such bad relationships so often. And I think that's why so many marriages end in divorce. We're looking for something in other people that we can only find within. And, listen, I'm not saying people can't make you happy. I'm simply saying you can't get things like grace, mercy, righteousness, peace, and joy from an external source. You can't get LOVE from an external source. It comes from within. It comes from the heart. So if you're depending on someone else for that stuff, they will inevitably let you down. Remember, love is our foundation. Our anchor. Our Rock. It's what we HAVE, and what we build on. It's not something we can get--or need to get--from someone else. It's what we give TO others. So that they can experience it, and so that we can experience it. So that it can become even more real by sharing it. It's not about getting, it's about giving. Love IS giving. That's my point. But you can't give what you don't have. And that's where the Holy Spirit comes in. Our love receptor. Because, remember, the immutable truth is that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. The immutable truth is that God loves you. But that kind of unconditional love seems too good to be true. We have trouble believing we already have it, and that's why we try to get it. We try to earn something that can't be earned. Something that must be received and released. Again--the Holy Spirit. Our love receptor. The Spirit of Sonship that equips and empowers us to know God as our Father. To cry out, "Abba, Father." To live in the context of Sonship. To stand tall on that Rock even when the wind and the rains come. To stop trying to be someone we're not in order to get something we haven't got. To be still and know that He is God. To know that God is love. To rest in the arms of our loving heavenly Father. To hear the still, small voice inside of us instead of the exterior voice of the world shouting lies at us. When you know the truth, and when you know that the truth is the truth no matter what, then it doesn't matter what anybody else says. It doesn't matter what the "facts" are. Because truth is higher than fact. The fact of the matter might be that the situation looks bad. But the truth is, it's all part of God's grand scheme. Sometimes we have to got through this to get to that. To learn and grow. To be able to help others through the same things. But if we're too busy running around like chickens with our heads cut off, we'll miss out. We'll rob ourselves of the gift we've been given. If you know the truth, you won't care about the lie. And if you believe the truth--that you are loved--that's when you've got something you can give. That's when you can love!

When something is immutable, that means it is unchangable. I was going to put "written in stone" but really it's even more than that. It's written in the heart. It's absolute truth. True yesterday, today, and forever. That's a foundation you can build on. Because no matter what happens, that foundation will stand strong. And here's the immutable truth that is written in our hearts: God loves us. If you read Romans 8:35-39 you come to the conclusion--the immutable truth--that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Which means nothing can separate us from God. Because A. He lives inside us. He moved in and He's never moving out. And B. He IS love. To separate us from God's love would be to separate us from God. Guys, it ain't happening. Won't happen. CAN'T happen. So we don't need to go around picking flower petals singing, "He loves me, He loves me not." We don't have to base our relationship with God on our behavior. We can have a bad day and still KNOW--with a knowledge that passes knowledge... a heart knowledge--that God loves us. We can make a mistake and still KNOW that we are the righteousness of God in Christ. Our key passage of Scripture for this Rant series is Hebrews 6:18-19. Hebrews 6:19 reads like this, "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil." The immutable truth of God's love for us is our anchor. It keeps our boat from drifting away. Or, to continue the boat metaphor, it is our lighthouse to keep us from crashing into the rocks. Ephesians 4:14 says it like this, "That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." When you know the truth, you don't even have to listen to the lie. You can lay aside the sin (unbelief) that so easily besets you. You can literally stick your fingers in your ears and go, "Lalalalalala. I'm not listening" when the world tries to tell you who you are. You can ignore the shouting and instead listen to the still, small voice inside you that is saying, over and over, with every beat of God's heart in your chest, "I love you. I love you. I love you. You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." Because Jesus is the truth, right? The truth about God, and the truth about us. Who we really are. Right now. Because of the work He finished on the cross. He was lifted up from the earth and He drew all men into Himself. Then He planted Himself into all men. He died so we could die and then He rose again so we could rise again. So that we could experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us. So that we might KNOW the immutable truth, and that truth might set us free. Set us free, and make us free. Free FROM the bondage of sin and death. Free TO walk in newness of life. To be who we are instead of trying to be someone we're not. To rest. To flow. To receive and release the love of the Father AS His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. To love and to love. Because to live IS to love, and to love is to live. That's the secret TO life, and the truth ABOUT life!

There are things you "know" and there are things you KNOW. It's the difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge, right? But I've always thought if you're going to base your life on something it should be something true. A truth. And not only "A" truth, but THE truth. We know Jesus is THE way, THE truth, and THE life, right? We know He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. And yet it seems like we'll try to build on any grain of sand we can find before we finally give up and use the Rock as our foundation. It's like we still think of God as last chance instead of first choice. I'm convinced that's why (and how) we get into a lot of trouble. We MAKE trouble for ourselves when we try to go our own way. When we try to "figure it out" instead of simply letting God reveal Himself to us, and in us, and through us. We participate in this war of "head vs heart" and we get all mixed up and twisted around... and lost. Jesus said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber" (John 10:1). That's us trying to take the Kingdom by force. That's us trying to take the Kingdom with the violence of human effort. And thta's us robbing ourselves of what we have freely been given. We don't understand, or believe, or know the truth--that it is the Father's good pleasure to GIVE us the Kingdom--and so we try to get it for ourselves. We try to build our own kingdom. And we miss out on what's available to us. We miss out on what we already have by trying to get something we think we haven't got. Now look at Hebrews 6:18-19, "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to life, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil." Ok. First things first. What's within the veil? The most holy place, right? The metting place between God and man. And for the record, when Jesus died on the cross the veil was torn in half from top to bottom. So there IS no separation between God and man. God lives IN man. Right? Jesus... God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. But the point I want to make for this Rant series is God's immutable truth. "Immutable" is number 276 in Strong's Greek Concordance and it means, "unchangeable." Sometimes truth can be tricky, right? "My" truth might be different than your truth. Preaching last night I said, "Your heart might not know the way for someone else to go, but it knows the way for YOU to go." But that's what's so special about God's truth. About the truth that God IS. He is immutable. Unchangeable. "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever" (Hebrews 13:8). Which means--since He IS the truth and it's impossible for Him to lie, or change--you can trust what He says. You can build a life on it. His Word is the foundation you can build on. And His Word is love. Love never changes. Love is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Love is the immutable truth of the universe. And when you KNOW that you are loved... that's when you CAN love. That's when you can live. Because to live IS to love and to love is to live. That Rock will not be shaken. Eternal life is eternal because love is immutable!