When we talk about faith we need to know (and believe) what we're talking about. Because faith is not the power to conjure something into existence. Faith is knowing (and believing) what already exists. It is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for and the EVIDENCE of things not seen. Faith means persuasion. And the way you are persuaded of something is by experiencing it. Seeing is believing, if I can say it that way. Jesus told us what love is--laying your life down for your friends--and then He went to the cross and did that very thing. He gave us THE measure of faith by giving us something--someONE, Himself, Love--to believe in. I said seeing is believing. And this goes right along with that: You are what you eat. What you feed is what will grow. If you eat something substantial you'll be satisfied. And when the Bible says, "God is love" that's what the word love means; it means "love feast." Jesus prepared a table for us in the presence of our enemies, and He knocks at the door (the heart) waiting for us to answer so that He can come in and sup with us. He wants to SHARE a meal. SHARE an experience. He wants to fill us to overflowing with love so that we can love each other (naturally) with that same love. So that instead of trying to get something we think we don't have--which is what we THINK faith is all about--we can begin to receive and release the gift of God that we've already been given. Faith comes from hearing, right? And hearing from the Word of God. When we KNOW what we've got we can BELIEVE that we have it. When that still, small voice inside of us leads and guides us into all truth by telling us the ultimate truth of the universe--that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands... that Daddy loves you--that's when you can stop trying to get something. Because you know you've already got it. And when you know what you've got you can experience and enjoy what you've got. You can share what you've got. When you're satisfied--filled to overflowing with God's love for you--you can focus on satisfying others. When you're full of it, then you've got something to share. You can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. Faith isn't trying to get anything. It's knowing what you've got. Believing that what you've got is enough. "Have faith in God" means, "have faith in love." Because God IS love. That's the gift of God--eternal life, knowing the Father and the One whom He sent. Knowing who God is--your heavenly Father--and knowing who you are--His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. That's what we feast on. That's what we fill ourselves with. Not what we do, but who we are. That's what's real. That's what's substantial. The evidence and substance of God's love for us. That's what makes life worth living. That's what makes it POSSIBLE to live. Because to live is to love and to love is to live!

You are what you eat. What you feed is what will grow. What you magnify is what manifests in your life. But having said that, there's a maturation process that takes place. The Promised Land (of rest) is a land that flows with milk and honey. Milk is righteousness, and honey is revealtion. That's where we start. That's what we eat when we're babies. But that's not where we stay. Look at Hebrews 5:12-14, "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." There's a lot here so let's dig into it. First, it's not a bad thing to be a babe who is unskilful in the word of righteousness. That's where you start. That's where you HAVE to start. And notice that you start at righteousness. You start at revelation. Milk and honey. You aren't evil and need to become good. You are perfect, and you are simply finding out what it means to BE perfect. And that's where the maturation comes in. That's where "those who by reason of USE" comes in. Using what you've got, instead of trying to get something you haven't got. If you don't use it, you lose it, right? But when you use it it gets stronger. Then you stop discerning BETWEEN good and evil, and you start to discern BOTH good and evil. You start to understand that BOTH good and evil were on the same tree of death. The fig tree that Jesus cursed because it couldn't produce any fruit. There was nothing substantial on it. Nothing that could satisfy our appetite. Because our appetite is to experience love; both by being loved and by loving others. Both by receiving and releasing. That's what real. That's what we have faith in. Remember Jesus said, "...Have faith in God" (Mark 11:22). Sometimes it's like we want to put faith in faith. We want to believe something that ISN'T real in order to MAKE it real. But, again, that's hope. That's not faith. Faith is being persuaded of the truth. Knowing and believing the love of God because He told you what His love is--laying His life down for you--and then He want to the cross and SHOWED you that love. He gave us THE measure of faith so that we could move past milk, and start chewing on meat. So we could sink our teeth into something real. Something that can fill us up. And if it's a God-shaped (love-shaped) hole you're trying to fill, well, there's only one thing that can fill it. God. Love. That's what we're hungry for. And that's the table that Jesus prepared for us in the presence of our enemies. That's why Jesus stands at the door and knocks, so that when we answer He can come in and sup with us. He can fill us up to overflowing with the thing we've been craving. And then we can let it overflow out of us naturally. We can share what we've got with those who need it. Which, as always, is everybody. Everybody needs love. Love is ALL we need. It's is the real. The thing of substance that makes life worth living. That makes it POSSIBLE to live. It's what we believe in, when we have faith in God. Because God is love. Faith in God IS faith in love!

"Bub, I want you to eat something substantial, not just snacks." I find myself saying this to my son on a daily basis. Why? Because I want what's best for him. I want him to grow up healthy and strong. I want him to have something good, and something real. That's what faith is. Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for, and the EVIDENCE of things not seen. It's what's REAL even when it might not SEEM real. Let me try to explain. "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18). Seems kind of upside down and backwards, eh? We don't look at the things which are seen, but we look at the things which are not seen. How can you look at what is not seen? By faith! Because faith is the evidence of those things! Those SPIRITUAL things! When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil their "eyes" were opened. Their natural eyes. And their Spiritual eyes were blinded. They couldn't see LIFE anymore. They could only see good and evil. This is why Jesus told us not to judge by appearance, but to judge righteous judgment. And this is why 2 Corinthians 5:7 tells us, "(For we walk b faith, not by sight:)". If you're walking by sight you could easily stumble and fall. Because to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. We see things from the wrong persepective when we walk by sight. We make mountains out of molehills. We run to God telling Him how big our problems are, instead of telling our problems how big our God is. (And just real quick, we CAN cast our cares on Him, because He cares for us. But that doesn't mean going around whining and complaining. It simply means trusting Him to take care of us no matter what. Which, by the way, is exactly what we're talking about. Because trusting God is having faith in God.) I think it can be a little bit tricky because while God speaks--from the inside--with a still, small voice... the world is screaming at you from the top of it's lungs. And what you focus on, what you believe, defines your reality. What you feed is what will grow. What you magnify is what manifests in your life. If you let what a situation looks like dictate to you then you'll always be at the mercy of external forces. But if you flip the script and let what's inside you come out of you, then YOU can start to dictate to your situations! (And I'm not saying you can just conjure anything you want into being. I'm saying there are two reports--the world's and the Lord's--and whichever one you believe is which one will apply.) I always say it like this, "You have heard it said, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But I say unto you, stop taking what life gives you and receive and release the gift of your heavenly Father!" There is so much more available to us. Abundant life! But until you know it and believe it... until you've heard about it and been persuaded of it... until you stop snacking and eat something substantial... you'll miss out. You'll rob yourself from the gift by trying to earn something that can't be earned. It has been freely given, and must be received. We have been given THE measure of faith when Jesus gave us something--someONE, Himself, Love--to believe in. And now we can love each other because we know and believe we are loved!

If something has substance... it's real. You can feel it. It's more than just an idea. More than just something you wish for, or hope for. It's something you've got. With that in mind, look at Hebrews 3:14 in the Message Bible, "If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with we're in this with Christ for the long haul." Faith isn't about trying to get something you haven't got. Faith is about knowing and believing that you have what God says you have. That you ARE who God says you ARE! Connect this with 1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." The good fight of faith is not GETTING eternal life. Eternal life is the gift of God. He gave it to us over 2,000 years ago on the cross when Jesus gave His life for us and gave His life to us. The good fight of faith is LAYING HOLD of eternal life. Receiving the gift you've been given. Letting God love you to the point where there's no doubt in your mind. To the point that you're filled to overflowing with what you've already been filled with! The outpouring of the indwelling Spirit, right? Faith isn't about getting anything. It's about being persuaded that you've already GOT something. Because seeing is believing. This idea of "taking things on faith," which basically means hoping for things, is really not Biblical. All throughout the Bible God would ask someone to do something, and the person in question would turn right around and ask for a sign. Ask for proof. Ask for something to believe in. Some evidence. Some substance. And every time God would give them a sign. He's not afraid of proving Himself. In fact, I think He delights in proving Himself. Because that's where faith comes from. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). We have faith in God because He has proven (and continues to prove) Himself faithful. We trust God because He has proven (and continues to prove) Himself trustworthy. Faith isn't a blind leap (into the dark, or the light). Faith is walking on the path that God has illuminated with His Word. We hear the Word of God--literally the Word about Christ--and then we have something to believe in. The Holy Spirit--our love receptor--whispers in a still, small voice that Daddy loves us. And when we hear that Word, faith explodes. When we know and believe the love of Christ... when we know and believe that we ARE loved, right now, just the way we are... that's when we have something real to cling to. Something to hold on to. Something to release, because we have received it. You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. So first you hear, then you believe. First you receive, then you release. You don't fake it 'til you make it, and you don't try to conjure it up by  "believing really hard" (which, again, is really hoping really hard). You simply let God love you and then love others with that same love. You experience the love of God, and then you share it with those you come into contact with. Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for. The EVIDENCE of things not seen. Faith is the proof in the pudding. It's not trying to believe, it's what we believe in!

I want to take the next few days and talk about faith. Because I think we have a very big misconception about it. And the way we throw the word around... we really ought to know what we're talking about. It seems to me that we think faith and hope are the same thing. Like... faith is wishing really hard in order to make something happen. "If I have enough faith I'll get what I hope for." But. According to Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Did you catch that? Faith doesn't make what you hope for happen. Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for. And that word substance is number 5287 in Strong's Greek Concordance. It means, "a setting under (support), that is, (figuratively) concretely essence, or astractly assurance: - confidence, confident, person, substance." See, faith doesn't MAKE something happen. Faith is the assurance that it HAS happened! It is the foundation that supports everything else. Faith... hope... and love, right? It's the EVIDENCE of things not seen. Evidence isn't what makes something happen. Evidence is what proves something HAS happened. And just for the record, the hope we're really speaking of--the thing that is not seen until faith is mixed with it--is found in Colossians 1:27. "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Faith isn't, "Someday Jesus will live in me if I blah blah blah." Faith is knowing and believing that He lives in me right now! Knowing and believing the love of Christ! Because, remember, "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love" (Galatians 5:6). Faith works by love. Love is the thing hoped for. The thing not seen. And faith is the evidence and substance of love! Faith is not trying to force yourself to believe that you are loved. Faith is God showing you that He loves you. He gave us all THE measure of faith when He went to the cross and died both for us and as us. He gave us THE measure of faith by proving Himself faithful. We can put our trust in Him because He has proven Himself trustworthy. We can cast our cares on Him because He cares for us. Faith is not a blind leap in the dark. Faith is not even a blind leap in the light. Faith isn't blind at all. Seeing is believing. The evidence of things not seen. Faith is trusting your heavenly Father to take care of you because you know He swore He would never leave you nor forsake you. And by the way (and for the record), the word "faith" in Hebrews 11:1 is 4102 in Strong's Greek Concordance. It means, "persuasion, especially reliance upon Christ for salvation." When you've been persuaded of something you believe it. Because you've experienced it. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. Heart knowledge trumps head knowledge every single time. Truth is higher than fact. The fact of the matter is what you can see. But the truth of the matter is the evidence of what you CAN'T see. It's Christ IN you coming OUT of you as you fill yourself to overflowing with what you've been filled with. Faith isn't about getting anything. It's about knowing what you've already got. Receiving the gift you've been given and releasing it to all those people you come into contact with!

When someone is beloved... that's when they know and believe that they are loved. That's when they let themselves BE loved. And that's when they CAN love. Receiving and releasing, right? Receiving BY releasing. But for today I want to focus on what being beloved means to the person DOING the loving. Because there's a lot of different kinds of love. For example, I love Mountain Dew. But only because of what it can do for me. The way it tastes, and the caffeine. But I wouldn't say Mountain Dew is my beloved. I wouldn't say I am Mountain Dew's, and Mountain Dew is mine. It's a one way street, with me and the Dew. Now look at John 3:16 to see the difference. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Did you catch that? For God so loved the WORLD. In the unconditional love relationship between Father and Son... the world got included. WE got included. It's like the covenant God made WITH HIMSELF in Genesis chapter 15. He included Abraham in it, but the deal was between the Father and the Son. Which, by the way, is why God GAVE US the Son. So that we could know and believe that we ARE His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. So that by believing, we could experience Jesus' abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life! Let me say it like this, Jesus is God's only begotten Son, right? But He SO loved the WORLD that He gave Jesus to US! Jesus gave His life FOR us, and He gave His life TO us. So that we could have it. Experience it. Share it. So that the love inside of us could fill us to overflowing and come out... naturally. That's how much God loves us. He would literally rather die than be without us. Look at Romans 5:8 in the NLT, "But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners." When we couldn't do ANYTHING for Him... He did EVERYTHING for us. He wanted the best FOR us, so He gave the best TO us. He SO loved the world. He showed His GREAT love for us. Being someone's beloved doesn't mean they get what they can get from you. It means they give everything they've got TO you. Because you are His, and He is yours. I am my beloved's, and He is mine. It's not a one way street. It's a loop. God loves us and then we love Him back by loving each other. It's not about taking and hording. It's about receiving and releasing. It's not about getting. It's about giving. Love IS giving. Because when God SO loved... He GAVE. Jesus said the greatest expression of love a man can have is to lay down His life for His friends. To GIVE your life. To GIVE what you've got. And that's why it's so vitally important to know what you've got. Because you can't give what you don't have. You can only give what you do have. Receiving isn't the be-all end-all, but it is step one. Receiving and releasing. Loving others as Jesus loves us. Knowing that we are His beloved... and knowing that we are each other's beloved! God and people. Love God and love people. Love God by loving people. That's what it's all about. And that's how it's possible. His great love for us fills us to overflowing with love for each other!

To completely identify with Jesus--our true identity, God in the flesh, love in a body--is to know that we are God's BELOVED Son in whom He is well pleased. To know that as He is, so are we in this world. To stop trying to be someone we're not and rest in the truth of who we are. And guys, that's why we're here. We're here to be loved and to love. To receive and release the love of God. To love one another as Jesus loves us. To let ourselves BE loved, and to love each other with that same love. That's our purpose. That's our calling. That's what life is all about. To live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other because they are the same thing! Love is what makes an abundant life abundant. Love is what makes life worth living. In sports they say winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. But we know that since Jesus--again, God in the flesh, love in a body--is Alpha and Omega, first and last, beginning and end... we know that love is the only thing AND love is everything! It's all about love. And that's what Jesus came to show us. Jesus said, "Greater love can no man have than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). He TOLD us what love is all about. And then He went to the cross and did that very thing. He literally laid His life down for us. He TOLD us what love is, and then He SHOWED us what love is. He gave His life FOR us, and He gave His life TO us. So that we could have it. So that we could experience it. So that we could share it with each other. Adam was God's son, but he didn't believe Daddy loved him. He (and when I say "he" I'm including Adam and Eve together) swallowed the serpent's lie that says you have to do in order to be. Get enough knowledge about good and evil so you can stop doing evil and do good and be like God. What Adam should have said was, "I'm already like God. I'm made in His image. I don't have to do in order to be. I can do BECAUSE I be!" But Adam didn't have the Holy Spirit. He didn't know what HE was like because he didn't know what God was like. As soon as Adam sinned (which is unbelief, believing the lie instead of the Truth) he hid from the presence of God. He thought God was mad AT him. He didn't know that God was mad ABOUT him. And from that time until the appointed time of the cross man stumbled around in the dark trying to get something he already had. Trying to earn something that was freely given and could only be received. That's what the Holy Spirit is. He is the Spirit of truth. Our love receptor. That still, small voice inside of us whispering, "The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands." Whispering, "Daddy loves you. You are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased." And that's the difference between Adam and Jesus. Jesus knew who He was. Jesus let Himself BE loved, and He loved others with that same love. He received the gift of God and released it to those He came into contact with. He didn't try to be someone He wasn't... because He knew who He was. Remember yesterday we talked about that honeymoon period where we get away with God and let Him fill us up to overflowing with His love? That's how we learn HOW to love. By learning how we ARE loved. That's how we learn to live. Not by trying to live Jesus' life, but by letting Him live His own life in us, and through us, and as us!

Don't get weirded out by this part. We are the Lamb's wife. Ok? So when I talk about intimacy (between husband and wife) it's ok. It's just a slightly different picture than the Father/Son love that I usually focus on. But I think it's important to understand all aspects of love. Because love is the solution to every problem. But different situations call for different applications. And I want to grab a piece of Matthew 11:28-30 in the MSG Bible, “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” Ready? "Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life." The perfect getaway, right? A honeymoon between the Lamb and His wife where we learn how to really live. How to rest. When we learn how to LOVE by learning how we ARE loved. I talk about filling ourselves to overflowing with what we've been filled with, but really that's only possible when we know (and believe) that we have already been filled to overflowing! It's apprehending what we've been apprehended of. It's receiving (first) so that we have something to release. And it comes from intimacy with our beloved. Look at Song of Solomon 1:16, "Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green." First we see that He is appealing. Remember, it's the GOODNESS of God that leads men to repentance. When Eve saw the tree of knowledge of good and evil she saw that it was pleasing to the eye. She wanted it. It seemed like a better option. Unless you see a better option why would you ever move from where you're at? Eve was deceived though. The true better option is Jesus. Love. The more excellent way. But the grass always seems greener on the other side, right? Well... when you get away with your beloved you find that OUR bed is green. Not MY bed. Not HIS bed. OUR bed. And green there represents life. When God promised Abraham and Sarah a baby it was impossible for them alone. They needed HIM to produce the promise. He is the vine and we are the branches. He produces the fruit of the Spirit (which is love) and we bear it. We carry it to those who need it--which is everybody. But it comes from the source. WE don't make it happen. HE already made it happen. All we do is get away with Him. All we do is connect to the source. He is our beloved and we are His beloved. So we let ourselves BE loved. We let life come from OUR bed. OUR union, or marriage--which is two becoming one. No separation. It's not so much the Lamb AND His wife as it is the Lamb period. As He is, so are we in this world. I am my beloved's and He is mine because we are One and the same. Different parts of the same body but all One body. All One New Man!

Jesus gave us a New Commandment. And it goes like this, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34). In other words, "Receive my love and release it to others." That's what this life is all about. It's about living. And to live is to love. To love is to live. You can't have one without the other because they are the same thing. The difference between life and death... is love. And not just love, but agape love. God love. This love that IS God. A Father's love for His Son. For His beloved. That's what the Holy Spirit does when He leads and guides us into all truth; He leads us into our true identity by testifying of Jesus. He leads us into the ultimate truth of the universe--that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. That WE are the Son that the Father loves, and is well pleased with! That's the way of grace. And we respond to it with the walk of faith. We respond to this glorious truth... by knowing it and believing it. By LETTING God love us. That's what beloved means. It means we let ourselves BE loved by God. Instead of trying to earn it by being someone we're not... we simply receive it by resting in who we are. Who we REALLY are. Our true identity. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. Isn't it interesting that when Jesus was baptized the Holy Spirit rested on Him in the shape of a dove AND THEN His Father proclaimed, "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased"? It was the Holy Spirit bringing that truth to life. It wasn't what Jesus had done--because He hadn't done anything yet. No miracles or anything like that--it was who Jesus was. It was the Father loving His Son. And remember, that's the difference between Adam and Jesus. Both sons of God. Both loved by God. But Jesus what the "beloved" Son of God. Jesus KNEW He was loved. He let Himself BE loved. He didn't try to earn it, because He knew He already had it. He lived in the Father, and He lived by the Father. He knew who He was. He received it... and He released it. And that's what He commanded us to do too. Jesus said it's better to give than to receive, but you first have to receive so that we have something to give. That's why Jesus said, "...as I have loved you..." That's why 1 John 4:19 says, "We love him, because he first loved us." (And we love Him BY loving each other!) Our love FOR God comes FROM God. Remember my favorite song, "How He Loves"? It focuses on HIS love for US. When we fill ourselves to overflowing with what we've been filled with... that's when it comes out naturally. That's when the new commandment stops being a rule to follow and simply becomes human nature. Our new nature. The love nature. What we do flows from who we are. Or rather, who we believe we are. So it's imperative that we KNOW who we are. That we know who God is. That we understand Song of Solomon 2:16, "My beloved is mine, and I am his..." It's this relationship--NOT religion--that makes life worth living. That makes it possible for us to live Jesus' abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life by letting Him live His own life in us, and through us, and as us. I am His and He is mine. There is no separation. No difference. We are One. Beloved.

This Rant series is a continuation of the last one, focusing on the sense of belonging that comes from knowing that, well, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine..." (Song of Solomon 6:3). But instead of zeroing in on who belongs to who, I want to highlight what that belonging means. And it is, in a word, "beloved." It's not about someone controling someone else. I saw a t-shirt once that said, "Jesus is my boss." And I thought to myself, "No... Jesus is my LIFE." It's not about obeying rules and laws or else. It's about the perfect law of liberty. Because where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Sin and death is the bondage that we were in before the cross. And then we were brought out of life and into death. The difference, of course, being love. When you know (and believe) that you are loved... you can love. To live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other because they are the same thing. But you can't give what you don't have. You can only give what you do have. So before we can release the love of God, we have to receive it. Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive. Because while receiving comes first, it's not the be-all end-all. It's step one. And that's where "beloved" comes in. Because if you break the word apart it literally means BE loved. And that's one of the most important things we will ever do; allowing ourselves to BE loved by our heavenly Father. Believing the truth about God (which is also the truth about us). We are His and He is ours. I am my BELOVED'S and He is mine... See, Luke 3:38 identifies Adam as the son of God. But the difference between Adam and Jesus is NOT that God loved Jesus and not Adam. God loved (loves) them both. That's not just what God does. That's who God is. The difference is that Jesus is God's BELOVED Son. The difference is that Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit. The love receptor that leads and guides us into all truth. The truth of who we are. The truth that as He is, so are we in this world. The truth that if Jesus is God's beloved Son... then WE are God's beloved Son. He is our true identity. What's true about Jesus is true about us. We just have to know it, and believe it. We have to let God love us, instead of trying to earn His love. We have to let ourselves BE loved. My favorite song is, "How He Loves." Because I think it has the right focus. How HE loves US. We love because He FIRST loved us. Unless we know and believe His love, we don't have anything to give. (Except bitterness, and pain, and fear, and hurt, I mean.) But when we let ourselves be loved... that love fills us to overflowing. And it comes out naturally. I am His, and He is mine. My beloved. His beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased!