We make things so complicated sometimes. And I think it comes from the simple fact that you can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. Or, more accurately, what you believe you don't have or do have. Remember, either way Christ's love controls us. Either we know and believe the love of Christ, and do whatever we do in order to share that love... or we don't know and believe that we are unconditionally loved, and do everything we do in order to get that love that we desperately need but don't think we have. Two completely different mindsets. And here's the thing: You can't have it both ways. You can't serve two masters. James 1:8 says, "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." If you're going back and forth on this, swinging from branch to branch on the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the tree of death), you will never be able to rest. If you think you're going from good to evil and back again, plucking flower petals and saying "God loves me, He loves me not," and just hoping and praying that you end up on "He loves me..." Guys. That's no way to live. That's not living at all. The ONLY way to truly live is to receive and release the love of God. Because living and loving aren't just connected, they are the same thing. To live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other and you can't do one without the other. The age-old question, "Why am I here?" really has a simple answer. To be loved and to love. To be known and to know. To experience Jesus's abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love by letting Jesus live His own life in you, and through you, and as you. To receive and release the gift of God. Which IS the life of love. To receive it by releasing it, and to release it by receiving it. Breathing it in and breathing it out. That's how we live, right? By breathing? By our heart beating--or, really, by God's heart beating with love in our chests. It's all about love. Love is the answer. What shall we do then? Love! Live out of your abundance. If you see someone without a coat, and you have an extra one... it's not rocket science. Don't worry about having things, but make sure things don't have you. If you have a heart for people, your stuff won't hold you back or hold you down. You will understand what it means to be blessed... to be a blessing. You will be able to live out of your abundance. Give what you've got. And, listen, John didn't say, "Give away your coat and freeze to death." Luke 3:11 says, "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise." Live out of your abundance. See a need--and if you can--meet it. But stay in your lane. Don't try to be someone you're not and don't try to do something you can't. You're not expected to do everything for everybody. You can only do what you can do. And once you've given something all you've got, that's either enough... or it's not. And either way, you've done what you can do. So don't beat yourself up for the things you can't do. Learn to say no. While at the same thing doing what you can do. Saying yes when you can. What shall we do then? Love people. Give what you've got. Give who you are. BE who you are!

This is a pretty commonly known story, I think. Jesus was ministering to the multitudes, and then this happened: "And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place. But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people" (Luke 9:12-13). The fish and the loaves. We all know what comes next. Jesus blessed and broke the food and passed it out. And it never ran out. God supplied all their need. It was a miracle. And, as true miracles do, it related to the people on their most basic level. It saw a need--they were hungry--and met that need. The part I want to focus on today, in light of the topic we've been working on, is the disciples thinking they had it figured out. Suggesting that Jesus send the hungry people away so that they could fend for themselves. And Jesus saying, "You feed them." Sometimes we make things too complicated. Sometimes we get twisted around. Like... the people were hungry. Easiest answer: Feed them. But the disciples didn't make that connection. It took the Son of God (the Son of man) to shine that light. Because the light that Jesus shined into every situation was the light of love. If you see someone who is hungry, your love should activate towards them. And it doesn't matter who they are. When you see a need that you can meet... you ought to meet it. That's a cool part of this story too; the disciples couldn't meet that need. Not in the natural. Not with the supplies they had on hand. Not with anything external. It took what was internal. It took giving what JESUS had inside. When Jesus gave His love... it manifested in a feast. Which, by the way, is what love is. Love is a love feast. It is what fills us up and sustains us. It is literally our sustenance. We can't live without it. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other and you can't do one without the other. Jesus... look. Jesus was so compassionate, had such a soft heart, that when His friend Lazarus died He wept. Even though He knew He was about to go raise that man from the dead. He still felt the loss. Felt it deeply. And felt it WITH the others who we sad about Lazarus's death. Ecclesiastes 3:4 tells us that there is, "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance." Everything in it's season, right? It's ok to feel things. Feel what you feel. But don't let it control you. And don't let what something looks like limit your thinking. With man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Someone's hungry. What shall we do then? Feed them. It's not rocket science. See a need and meet it. Don't turn your back on people when they need help. Needing help is hard. Nobody WANTS to need help. We like to think of ourselves as strong independent people. But asking for help when you need it is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of wisdom. And, in love, if someone needs help, whether they ask for it or not, we can help them. Can... and should!

When asked, "What shall we do then?" John the Baptist answered with, "...He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise" (Luke 3:11). Which to me is pretty simple. Pretty basic. See a need and, if at all possible, meet it. Live out of your abundance. And I really like the part about "He that hath two coats." Because somehow--and I THINK it comes from Luke 18:22, "Now when Jesus heard all these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me." I think it comes from the idea, and I've actually heard this preached, that "Jesus said" you can't have anything if you want to follow Him. First of all, that's not what He said. Look at Proverbs 10:22, "The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." And Genesis 12:2, "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing." Right there at the very end. That's the point. We are blessed... to be a blessing. The one thing that the rich young ruler to whom Jesus was speaking in Luke 18 lacked... was that compassion for his fellow man. He had stuff, and that wasn't a problem. His stuff had him, and that was. It's ok to have stuff. It's not ok to be a prisoner to the stuff you have. If you can't walk away from something--be it person, place, or thing--you're a slave to it. And Jesus doesn't want us to be slaves to anything. Except maybe love. But we talked about that a few Rants ago. For today I want to focus on what's important. Which is not what you have... but what you do with what you have. See, John didn't say, "Give up your coat and freeze to death." We are not meant to suffer--even if our suffering would help someone else. We are meant to live out of our abundance. Jesus came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. He blesses us... so that we can be a blessing to others. So that we can give what we've got because we know what we've got, and because it is what everybody in the world needs. Everybody needs love. And, yes, that comes in many different shapes and sizes. Some people can't or won't receive from me. That's ok. I'm not for everyone. I choose to NOT bang my head against the wall (and end up with only a headache), but to pour myself into the people in my life that can and will and do receive from me. Those people that we really connect with--that's your tribe. That's where you can have the greatest impact. Both positively or negatively. It's so important that we take care of the things (PEOPLE) that are important to us. That we let the love that is already inside of us come out. That we don't take people for granted, or use and abuse them. How you treat people doesn't really say anything about them, but it says everything about you. So when you don't know what to do... just do what you know. Give what you've got. Love the people in your path. Get in where you fit in and share the love that you have inside. Love is what makes the abundant life abundant. Love is what everybody needs, and love is what we have to give! What you don't know what to do, do what you know. Love!

In the last Rant series we kind of looked at the age old question of, "Why do bad things happen to good people?". And we came to the discovery that life is life. It rains on the just and the unjust alike. We came to the conclusion that instead of asking "Why do bad things happen to good people?" we should be asking the same question that is found in Luke 3:10, "And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?" Luckily, the answer is in the very next verse: "He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise" (Luke 3:11). And, really, as simple as this seems... it's really pretty deep. It's THE answer. What should we do? Live out of our abundance. See a need and meet it. When you don't know what to do... do what you know. Love. Give what you've got. And here's the part I really like: We are always so self-centered. Sorry. But there it is. When John was asked what should WE do... he said, "take care of others." Being Christ-centered is the opposite of being self-centered. Because being Christ-centered is being people-centered. Whatsoever you do unto the least of them is what you do unto the King. How you treat people is how you treat God. That's why I always say, "Love God and love people. Love God BY loving people!" When YOU don't know what to do... stop thinking about YOU! See a need in someone else and, if at all possible, meet that need. Which is another huge point I want to focus on. John said, "If you have TWO coats, give one away. If you have more than enough food, share it." And, listen, there IS something to be said about ministering out of your hurt. Or your weakness. Giving what you've got when you don't feel like you have anything to give. Now, having said that, when you're on an airplane they tell you to put your own oxygen mask on before you try to help someone else. Because if you're passed out on the floor you aren't any good to anybody. It's one thing to stretch yourself. It's one thing to be able to say, "I know where you're at because I've been there." Or even, "I know where you're at because I'm there too." But there's a difference between stretching yourself out and burning yourself out. One of those is good and healthy. Going out on a limb because that's where the fruit is. The other one is burning yourself out. And that is never good. That is never ok. I've said many times that it's better to burn out than rust out. But that just means--to me--that you should do what you can while you can. Rest is not inactivity. It is Holy Spirit directed activity. And the Holy Spirit will only ever direct us to do one thing: Love. Because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of love. The Holy Spirit is who lives in us so that we might know that as He (God, Jesus) is, so are we in this world. The question is what shall we do? And the answer, in a Word, is love. Stop trying to be someone you're not in order to get something you think you haven't got. Be yourself. Know yourself. Embrace yourself. Ask the right question, and you'll get the right answer. Live out of your abundance. Give what you've got. See a need... and meet it!

The question is not "Why do bad things happen to good people?". The question is, "What do you do when things happen?". And my answer to that is always the same: Love. When you don't know what to do... do what you know. Stop focusing on the why and put your Three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) into what comes next. The only thing you can really control in this life... is you. That's why self-control is one of the fruits of the Spirit. Yes, this life is abudant. But it is also a life of restraint. Just because you CAN do something doens't mean you have to. And it doesn't mean you necessarily should. Just because something is lawful doesn't mean it is expedient. Just because you "feel" a certain way doesn't mean you should do a certain thing. I tell people, "Feel what you feel, but don't let it control you." Repressing your emotions is no good. But expressing them in unhealthy ways is no good too. We need to really begin to see the bigger picture. To see that even though all things don't necessarily look good, or feel good, at the moment, all things are working together for good. Sometimes you have to go through this to get to that. And that's ok. Because life is not about the destination. It is about the journey. It's about learning and growing and moving forward. Not getting stuck in that snapshot mentality. When you look at a picture, that's time frozen. But that's not real either. It's just that--a moment in time. It's not the be-all end-all. It's just part of the journey. Part of the story. So we don't need to stuck there. We can put the past where it belongs--behind us--and we can keep moving forward. We can take everything that comes as either a lesson or a blessin'. We can eat the watermelon and spit out the seeds. We can ENJOY the journey, if we're not fighting it every step of the way. And that's the key. Rest. Knowing and believing that Jesus did the heavy lifting. He took care of what needed to be taken care of so that we might enjoy the fruit of HIS labor. The work of finished. That's what Jesus said on the cross. "It is finished." That means we don't have to finish it. We can rest in His loving arms. We don't have to try to live Jesus's life. Which is good, because nobody can live Jesus's life except Jesus. It is HIS abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love. And HE lives HIS OWN life in us, and through us, and as us. That's how (and why) we can survive the bad things that happen to good people. He carries us through. We are planted on the Rock that is Jesus, that is love, and He keeps us from falling. He gives us that foundation (again, love) to build on. So that we can keep on keeping on. His strength is made perfect in our weakness. That's how we keep moving forward. He is carrying us, and HE is moving forward. An overcomer isn't someone who can (maybe) overcome. An overcomer is someone who knows that they have ALREADY overcome, because JESUS already overcame! That's where our victory lies--not in our future, but in our past. It's not something to strive for. It's something to enjoy. Something to celebrate. Because it is not something we need. It is something we already have. We have the keys to the Kingdom. We have the secret of life. And it is, in a Word, LOVE!

It's that snapshot mentality that I talk about so often. Thinking that where we are right now is where we will be forever. Thinking that what is happening right now is what will be happening forever. We get stuck in our current circumstances, is what I'm trying to say. Which can be pretty good, if things are going ok, but can also be pretty awful if they aren't. And the point is: Life comes with ups and downs. If you let those highs and lows wreck you (in a bad way OR a good way) you'll feel like you're going off the rails on a crazy train. You'll feel like life is too much. Too unpredictable. What we need to do is see the bigger picture. See that while everything might not look good, or feel good, that doesn't mean we have to let it take us for a ride. Look at Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." And let me say right off the bat here: I believe we are all the called. I believe that what God has... He has for everybody. For God so loved the world, right? The whole world. Everybody who has ever been or will ever be. That's who God loves. That who God gave Himself for... and to. So let's not get stuck on who all things work together for. And let's focus on WHAT all things work together for. They work together for good. Remember Jeremiah 29:11? "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." Thoughts of peace... to give you an expected end. God knows the end from the beginning. And, yes, I believe that sometimes we make things harder on ourselves than they need to be. What my dad calls, "Going around the mountain." But even when the people of Israel were "wandering" in the wilderness... in truth, God was leading them step by step. Teaching them--quite literally--how to live as free people now that they were no longer slaves. And, yes, there were some missteps. As there will always be when freedom is on the menu. People will always abuse whatever is available to them. But that doesn't mean it's not a good thing. A necessary thing. God didn't take the people of Israel's freedom away from them when they abused it. He chastened them, and corrected them, like any good father will. But nothing you can do will ever disqualify you from God's love. And that's what freedom is--not freedom TO sin, but freedom FROM sin. Freedom TO LOVE! So when we're looking at this idea of why bad things happen to good people... it's just life. It's just THINGS happening. And no matter how they look, they are all working together for good. Everything in life can either be a lesson or a blessin', right? It's all in how you react to what happens. It's all in what you take from it. Every cloud has a silver lining. As long as you're learning and growing you can keep moving forward. You can lose the snapshot mentality and focus on the expected end. You can check yourself before you wreck yourself. Or before you let ANYTHING wreck you. You can stand fast on the Rock that is Jesus. The Rock that is love. And when you do that you cannot be shaken. You can get through what you need to go through in order to get to where you need to go!

We always want something (or someone) to blame. Have you ever noticed that? The days of personal responsibility seem to have gone by the wayside. "It's not my fault." That victim mentality. "I didn't do anything wrong." And my question to that is, "Ok... did you do anything right?" Because Jesus said the man born with blindness was not being punished. It was nobody's fault. It was just life. And it was also an opportunity for God--love... healing... wholeness--to manifest Himself. We can always choose what comes next. Something happens, and it's out of our control. Again, that's life. But what we CAN control is how we react to it. My uncle always says life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you deal with it. Because it rains on the just and the unjust alike. Remember when Forrest Gump was running, and he ran through some poo? That man made a lot of money on the bumper sticker from Gump's "wisdom." Sh*t happens, to put it bluntly. But what did old Forrest do? He just kept on running. Until he got tired. Then he went home. Point being, you can let stuff drag you down, or you can just keep on keeping on. Look at what happened when Peter was walking on water (or, really, on the Word of God) and then got distracted by the wind and the waves, took his eyes off Jesus, and started to drown. "Jesus didn't hesitate. He reached down and grabbed his hand. Then he said, "Faint-heart, what got into you?"" (Matthew 14:31 MSG). I love that line so much. What got into you? Because that's the central idea here. It doesn't matter what you go through. It matters what goes through you. It doesn't matter what you get into. It matters what gets into you. We should be so full of God's light of life that there is no room for anything else. He IS light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. So even if sh*t happens, we can just scrape it off our shoes and keep going. Even if the wind and the waves seem out of control we can keep our eyes on what really matters--Jesus. Love. Remember another time when the disciples were in a boat and the storm was raging? Jesus was asleep down below. Totally unconcerned. Because it didn't matter what He was getting into. Because it wasn't going to get into Him. It wasn't going to affect Him. And then, for His disciples sake, He simply told the storm to knock it off. And it did. The Word of God--which, again, is Jesus. Love--is the most powerful thing in all of creation. Jesus was literally that Word made flesh. LOVE made flesh. Jesus is God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in our flesh. Love in our body. As He is, so are we in this world. We can be as unshakable as He is, because we are planted on the Rock, the foundation, that is love! And when we're planted on that Rock we can stand fast no matter what. So the question, "Why do bad things happen to good people?" kind of becomes moot. And the real question is revealed as, "What do you do when something happens that doesn't seem great?" You look at the bigger picture. You trust God. You let all things work together for good. And you love everything and everybody in sight. That's how to truly live the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life that we've been given. It's not about what happens to you. It's about what you do--love!

Why do bad things happen to good people? That's the age old question. That's what we're discussing. And here's the deal, as simply as I can put it: "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:45). Life is life. Life happens. When God created the world He set out natural laws. And, yes, He is more than willing to ignore those natural laws when it suits His supernatual plans. But that's kind of the point. Things happen. To the evil and the good. To the just and unjust alike. That's just the world. And we always want to blame God for the "bad" stuff while taking all the credit ourselves for the "good stuff." But let me drop another memory verse on you. Genesis 50:20, "But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive." It doesn't matter what it looks like. God can use it for His own purpose. Like the man who was born blind. No one was to blame for that. It just happened. It was also an opportunity for God to show Himself in His power. Let me say it like this: If nothing ever went wrong, we wouldn't appreciate it when something went right. If there were no storms, we couldn't have rainbows. There can't be joy without sorrow because you wouldn't know the difference. What do they say? Variety is the spice of life. There is a time and a season for everything. And when you can see the big picture, you can roll with the punches. Instead of fighting all the time you can give things a chance. Even if something doesn't look great, or feel great, you can trust that God meant it for good. Allowed it to happen because it needed to happen. When we face adversity, we learn and grow. That's something that I think gets lost a lot of the time. Sometimes we have to go through things in order to get to where we need to be. It's that journey that makes us who we are. So instead of always fighting, we need to look for the lesson. I believe everything can be either a lesson or a blessin'. And it doesn't matter how anybody else means it either. Even if someone's coming at you, you can still learn and grow from that. You don't have to fight back. You can turn the other cheek. You can be the bigger person. And, before I run out of room, I want to spend a little bit of time talking about our attitude when good things happen to (I'm not going to say "bad people" so let's say) other people. It's easy to get jealous. I've even seen a "prayer" in which the guy exhorts to do for him what God has done for others. Which, to me, I'm not saying God can't or won't. I'm simply saying, if you're focused on what other people are getting or doing, you're missing out on what YOU'RE getting and doing. Or what you SHOULD be doing. Mind your own business, I guess is my point. Don't worry about what other people have that you don't. In fact, do that opposite. Make sure people have what they need. See a need and meet it. But don't worry about what someone else has that you don't. Maybe they need it at that time. And maybe you don't. Wants and needs are very different things. Be content with what you have by giving what you've got. That, friends, is the secret of life!

Why do bad things happen to good people? This is the age old question, right? People thinking that God should keep things from happening--which, by the way, I believe He does a lot of the time. I think we have no idea what all goes on behind our backs or above our heads--or make things happen. Or even people thinking that God uses sickness to... whatever. Punish people? I'm not really sure on that one. I AM sure that sickness doesn't come from God though. James 1:17, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." God is light. There is no darkness in Him at all. In fact, Jesus lays this out for His disciples in what will be our key passage for this Rant series. John 9:1-3, "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." That kind of blows me away. It wasn't even "Why did God punish this man by making him blind?" It was, "Did God punish this man because of what his parents did?" What a dismal life view. I would be so mad at my parents if God punished me because of them, right? Like... here I am, innocent as a lamb, born without sight because God was mad at my parents? That, quite frankly, is a horrible God--if such a God was to exist. Luckily for us, Jesus came to set the record straight. And, listen, I understand the basis. Exodus 20:5 says, "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the father on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me." But then Ezekiel 18:20 says, "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son." Seems like it could be either way, right? Almost like we need a ruling on it. An authority to tell us the bottom line. Enter... Jesus. Who basically says, "Guys. Life happens. This isn't about sin at all. This is simply an opportunity for God to manifest Himself." And, again, there's this idea that God made the man blind so that God could fix his blindness. But that's dirty pool, man. Creating a problem so you can fix it and look like a hero? Some people might do that. God won't. God set natural laws into motion when He created this world for us. And a lot can be said for what happened when man "fell" and had to exit the paradise of the garden of Eden. But that's another Rant for another day. For today--the guy was just born blind. It happens. People are born with "defects." Or they are born with any number of different things. Autism. Down's Syndrome. Whatever. That's not God punishing anybody. That's just life. Now having said that... Jesus didn't leave the blind man in his "natural" condition. He manifested God. Manifested love. Manifested healing and wholeness in that man's life. So instead of asking why bad things happen to good people... ask, "What can I do to help my brother?" And the answer, as always, is love!

Let's do our memory verse first. Not my favorite thing to do, but I really want to build off of it today. "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles" (Ephesians 3:1). Not a complete sentence, or even really a complete thought, but it has the idea that I want to close this Rant series with. A prisoner of Christ... for you. God fills us up... so that we can empty ourselves out... unto each other. That's the Divine Order. That's the way things are supposed to work. Receiving and releasing. Letting God love you and then loving Him back by loving the people you come into contact with. And that's what it means to be a prisoner of Christ--a prisoner of love. It means letting love control you. Which it does anyway. But instead of fighting it, we just need to lean into it. Understand what it means to be "controlled" by love. And here's what it means: Either you don't know that God loves you, and you do everything you do in order to try to get what you think you haven't got... or you DO know that God loves you and you do everything you do in order to share that love with others. Because love is giving. We don't need to GET anything. We already have what we need. In order to experience and enjoy what we have... we have to give it away. Share it. Let what's inside come out. Receive it and release it. Receive it BY releasing it. Release it BY receiving it. Let God love you and love Him back by loving people. When we focus on what really matters, we are focused on love. Focused on people. God and people. Love God and love people. Love God BY loving people. That's as simple as I can make it. I am a prisoner of Christ... FOR YOU. I don't do what I do for me. And, in reality, it's not about YOU either. Not in the sense of "people getting what they deserve." Because deserve has nothing to do with it. Look at Colossians 3:23, "And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men." To me, "heartily" means, "to the best of your ability, because it's in your heart to do it." And if we're treating people the way we think we they should be treated, we're judging people by appearance and not judging righteous judgment. And Jesus said don't do that. He said DON'T judge by appearance. He said judge righteous judgment. The judgment that was handed down from Father to Son on the cross. Well, actually, three days after the cross. Which was not a death sentence, but an abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life sentence! That was God's judgment on His Son... and on the world! For God so loved the WORLD that He gave his only begotten Son. Being a prisoner of Christ--of love--doesn't mean you're trapped. It means you're empowered. It means you are who you're supposed to be, and you have what you need to have, so that you can live the life you were created to live! Being a prisoner isn't about you. And it isn't really about anybody else--except in regards to everybody else being the destination of your love. It's about who you are a prisoner to. It's about Jesus. It's about love. Letting love rule and reign in your life so that you can rule and reign in this earth as a king and a priest. Letting love flow out of your heart so you can experience the life of love that Jesus is living in you, and through you, and as you!