When you're a prisoner, you don't have a choice. You have to do what you're told to do. Or else. And by this definition it gets a little tricky. Because being a prisoner of Christ means we are ruled by love. That's who Christ is. God is love. But at the same time, I don't believe God very often forces His will on us. I always say "God is too much of a gentleman to force His will on us." And, I mean, there have been exceptions to that "rule." For example, when Jesus was lifted up from the earth on the cross and drew all men into Himself, He didn't ask for our permission. He didn't ask if that was what we wanted. He did it because it needed to happen. Period. He did it because we COULDN'T do it. And in that way He made it available to us. Not forcing the results of what He did on the cross on us, but including us in what He did on the cross so that we could experience it. So that we could have it. So that we could BE it. Or, more accurately, KNOW that we ARE it. Because that's the key: Jesus did what He did. Died both for us and as us and then rose back to life. That happened. That's a done deal. Everything He is, is everything we are. Because of what He did. Knowing (and believing) what He did, and what it means, is what allows us to experience and enjoy what He did. I think what I'm trying to say is: It's the idea of the love slave. CHOOSING our master. Because--here's the deal--you WILL serve a master. Look at Luke 16:13, "No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." You can't serve two masters. But you WILL serve one. That's why choosing the right master is so important. Look at Romans 8:14, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." You have to let yourself be led. You have to follow. Now add this to that: "But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law" (Galatians 5:18). It's a more excellent way. When you're a prisoner you don't have a choice. Under the law you had to do what the law said... or else. With Jesus you DO have a choice. To a point. A measure of free will. But now let me take it that one step further. When you've chosen your master--love. Life. God--you will WANT to do what you're told. A big part of obedience is a trust issue. If you trust that God has your best interests at heart... why wouldn't you do what He says? It won't be a hardship. It won't be an obligation. It will be a joy. Because all God will ever tell you to do... is love. What else could the God who IS love tell you to do? What's the ONE New Commandment for the New Man? Love one another as Jesus loves you. Receive and release His love. Let what's already inside come out. By knowing and believing it's in there. By receiving and releasing it. God knows the thoughts that He thinks towards you, thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end. He knows the end from the beginning. He knows the best way to get us to where we need to be. It's a trust issue. It's being ok with His Word (which is Jesus, which is love) leading and guiding us. It's understanding that once we get past all the nonsense... what He wants us to do is really what we WANT to do. Because it's all love!

Life is all about the choices you make. God put life and death, blessings and cursings before us. And let us choose. But first He told us WHAT to choose. He said, "Choose life." Which seems like a no-brainer to me. But if you don't understand what life IS--to live is to love and to love is to live--then you can't really choose it. You'll keep looking for love in all the wrong places until you understand that you can only get it from the source. Then you will run TO God instead of running FROM Him. Knowing the ultimate truth of the universe--that God is love and He loves you--is what allows us to receive and release that love. Because, here's the deal: either way Christ's love controls us. Either we're a prisoner to trying to get it because we think (erronously) that we don't have it... or we're a prisoner in the sense that love leads and guides all of our actions. You do whatever you do because of love. You either think you don't have it and do whatever you do in order to try to get it... or you know (and believe) that you have it, and you do everything you do in order to give it away. Because that's what love is: Love is giving. You experience it by sharing it. Being a prisoner of Christ means being--in a very real sense--controlled by love. Look at Psalm 119:105, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Love lights the way. Love shows us where to go, and how to get there. It's the Way of Grace. And we respond to the Way (and the Truth, and the Life) that is Jesus... that is love... with the Walk of Faith. Love lights up the path, but we have to choose to walk that straight and narrow way that leads to life. So being a prisoner of Christ doesn't mean we're slaves--except in the sense of the love slave who loves his master and doesn't want to leave. It doesn't mean that we don't have any choice in the matter. I believe God created me with the ability to write. To put my thoughts down as words on a page. What I choose to do is USE that gift I've been given. Letting the mind of Christ (that's already in us) BE in us. That's the key to the Kingdom. That's what makes our lives as prisoners of Christ... well... amazing, quite frankly. A life of love, a life of service, of giving everything you have and everything you are, is a life worth living. Being a prisoner of Christ is not the same thing as being a prisoner of anything or anybody else. Let's liken it to addiction, for example. If you're addicted to something, you're a prisoner of that thing. You're compelled to do it. You don't have a choice. In a lot of cases that can be a negative. That can be something hurtful or harmful. But when you're addicted to love... when you're compelled to love... that makes everything better. In other peoples' lives... and in your own. Giving what you've got is how you experience what you've got. They say that forgiveness is like unlocking the jail cell and then realizing YOU were the one behind bars. Well, being a prisoner of Christ is like having the best thing in the world... and then realizing that it is your mission to share what you've got with everybody you come into contact with. And that (I think) is where I want to pick up tomorrow. The idea that the love we have is for EVERYBODY.

Let's talk about the love slave. I love (see what I did there?) to bring this up every now and then, because it's so powerful. It's in the book of Exodus, chapter 21. I'm going to cherry pick a verse here and there to cut down on it a little bit. Verse 2, "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing." A servant. A slave. A prisoner, if we can use that terminology. Back in those days you got him for six years and then had to let him go. Jump down to verses 5 and 6. "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever." Now let's get to the really good part. Jesus said, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture" (John 10:9). Nailing our ear to the door--because we love our Master and don't want to leave Him--is precisely what John did at the Last Supper. He laid his head on Jesus' breast (John 13:25), and he heard the heartbeat of God. And that, I believe, is why John referred to himself in his gospel as "the disciple that Jesus loved." He heard that love beating in God's heart because he nailed his ear to the door. Because he made a conscious choice to forego the world and lay hold of what he had been given by his heavenly Father. It's like Deuteronomy 30:19, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." I always liked this verse because God gives us the question... and the answer. You can have life or death. Your call. But, hey, you know... choose life. He doesn't force His way upon us. He makes it available to us. And nudges us in the right direction. "You served your time. You can go free." I don't want to go anywhere. There's nowhere better than here. This is where I belong. This is where I want to be. "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:2). We all have choices. And we always have choices. You can try to conform to the world if you want to. Nobody's stopping you. Even way back in the garden of Eden God TOLD Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (the tree of death), He TOLD Adam what would happen if Adam ate from that tree... but He didn't stop Adam. He gave us a measure of free will. But just because you CAN do something doesn't necessarily mean you SHOULD do it. When there's a more excellent way--who's name is Jesus... love--we really ought to choose it. It's available to us. It's at hand. All we have to do is receive it. Nail our ear to the door so we can hear the heartbeat of God. Listen to that still, small voice that is deep inside of us and let love guide our path. Either way Christ's love controls us. We might as well enjoy what that love has given to us--what that love IS--by receiving it... and releasing it!

I've been Ranting a lot about freedom lately. How it is not freedom TO sin, but freedom FROM sin. About how it is freedom TO love. To live! Well, for the next few days I want to talk about what Paul referred to himself as. A lot. One example of it is Philemon 1:1, "Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer." Paul. A prisoner of Christ. Kind of flies in the face of our idea of freedom, doesn't it? How can you be a prisoner if you're free? And, really, it comes down to what Jesus said in  Matthew 6:24, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Basically--nobody can serve two masters... but you WILL serve one. Another way to say this is, "Either way, Christ's love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life" (2 Corinthians 5:14 NLT). And, to me, "either way" simply means that either we know God loves us... and we do everything we do in order to love Him back by loving each other... or we don't know that God loves us... and we do everything we do in order to try to get that love that we desperately want and need, but think we don't have. Because whether we consciously know it or not... everything we do is about love. The issue of life--which is love--flows from the heart. Love is, at the end of the day, the thing that we need most. The thing that we need... only. It's all about love. Either way Christ's love controls us. Because we either know we have it and want to share it, or we think we don't have it and are desperate to get it by any means necessary. So, in a very real way, we are prisoners to love. Prisoners of Christ. And (maybe tomorrow, we'll see) I want to really hone in on what it means to love your master. To be a love slave. But we'll get there. Today I want to lay the foundation. Because people think freedom is doing whatever they want without consequences. They think that's what "greasy grace" is all about. But I'm here to tell you that every action has consequences. Be they good, bad, or ugly. Like I always say: If you cheat on your spouse, God won't punish you. But your spouse probably will. Grace is not about getting away with stuff. Grace is the the unmerited favor of God in your life. Grace is getting what you don't "deserve." And mercy is NOT getting what you do "deserve." And maturity is figuring out that "deserve" doesn't really have anything to do with it. And I always like to say this: If "getting away with" something you're not supposed to be doing is your goal... you need a new goal. If the thing you're worried about most is not getting in trouble--take a page from my son's book and don't do the things that will get you in trouble! Focus on what is really important. Focus on what really matters. Embrace the truth that God is love and He loves you, and let everything else flow from there. That, friends, is how to identify yourself as, and live as, a prisoner of Christ. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. It's the best thing!

Fighting an uphill battle all the time is exhausting. And, while good things in life DO take time and effort... no father wants his son to struggle through life. Especially not our heavenly Father who so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son so that we might not perish, but instead experience His own eternal, everlasting, abundant, Resurrection Life of love. Jesus came that we might have life, and that more abundantly. He came so that things would get better for us. He came so that we might be in the light, as He is in the light. So that we might understand that we ARE the light as He is the light. He came that we might be able to truly live. Which means truly love. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. They aren't just connected, they are the same thing. And when you live to love--a life of purpose and service--you will love to live. I know that might sound counter-intuitive on the surface. We've been so trained by society that the point of life is "Whoever dies with the most toys wins." But getting is not the point. Because love is giving. You already have everything you could ever need. Given from Father to Son simply and solely because He wanted us to have it. He gave us everything. His Son. His Spirit. His life. His love. And we have that. We don't need it... we have it. What we need to do (in order to experience what we already have) is give it away. Share it. Because it is never about getting. Because love IS giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. And you can't live without loving. Here's my personal defintion of love, from 2 Corinthians 12:15 in the New Living Translation, "I will gladly spend myself and all I have for you, even though it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me." Giving everything we have and everything we are. Gladly. No matter how it is received. And, listen, it's important to use wisdom. To love people the way they need to be loved. But if you give something (or someone) all you've got, that's either enough... or it's not. And either way, you've done all you can do. Shrug your shoulders, be happy with yourself for doing all you could do, and move on. Not everybody will pick up what you're laying down. That's just the way of the world. I know I'm not for everybody, and that's ok. Instead of banging my head against the wall, fighting that uphill battle and never getting anywhere or anything but a headache... I choose to pour myself into the people that I can reach. The people that do receive me. The ones who do pick up what I'm laying down. That's where my efforts are better given. That's where I can do more than just survive. That's where I can thrive. That's where I can build relationships. And life is all about relationships. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Right? And the only way to make good, healthy relationships is to build them on the foundation of love. The one foundation in all of the world that cannot be shaken. The one foundation in all of the world that you CAN build on. When you live to love... you will begin to love to live. Things will line up in the Divine Order that Jesus has already put them in. They will be revealed to you to BE in the Divine Order that Jesus has already put them in. And then you can rest. You can flow. You can live. You can love!

To live is to love. To love is to live. So living to love... is loving to live. I think we lose sight of that a lot of the time. We lose sight of the fact--the glorious truth--that life is supposed to be enjoyed. And, listen, that doesn't mean you should give in to every whim and impulse. Self-control is a fruit of the Spirit. As a preacher once said, "The Christian life is a life of restraint." Paul wrote, "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any" (1 Corinthians 6:12). And to me, that's the key. Not being brought under the power of anything. Not conforming to the world, but being transformed (into what we have already been transformed into) through the renewing of our mind. See, we think freedom is "freedom to sin." Or, freedom to do those things that we're not supposed to do. Which, I gotta say, is the exact wrong mindset. If you want to do the things you're not supposed to do... that's a problem in and of itself. You're under the power of that thing. Whatever it is. And letting something have power of you is bondage. Freedom is not freedom TO sin, it is freedom FROM sin. Freedom to experience our heart's desire in fulness and truth. Our heart's desire, by the way, is love. What else could it be? What else would the heart be concerned with? So freedom FROM sin is also freedom TO love. To do what we were created to do. To live the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of Love that is the gift of God by letting Jesus live His own life in us, and through us, and as us. Resting in the arms of our heavenly Father. And enjoying this ride that we're on. That's so key. Because... don't they say if you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life? Doing what you love is a joy, not a job. When you're living to love people... you will begin to love living. Hoarding things, and working only for yourself, and trying to climb over people in order to get to the top is a miserable existence. Giving what you've got allows you to experience and enjoy it. Letting what's inside come out is how we experience and enjoy what's inside. Love is giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. Which means in order to live... you have to give. Stop thinking about yourself so much. Look past yourself so you can see others. Being humble doesn't mean thinking less of yourself. It means thinking of yourself less. Seeing a need in someone else and meeting it. Giving others what they need. Giving them what you have. And that, friends, is a life worth living. Connecting with people. Building those relationships. No man is an island and it is not good that man should be alone. We need each other. We're all in this together. So maybe we should act like it. Maybe we should stop building walls and start building bridges. Maybe we ought to start giving what we've got--what our heavenly Father has already given us--instead to trying to get what we think we haven't got. Living a purpose-filled, love-filled life is the only way to love the life you're living. And it starts with the God who is love. We love, because He first loved us. We give... because He gave us everything we need!

Everybody wants to live life to the fullest, right? Well... except for those time when all you're trying to do is get from the start of the day to the end of the day. Like at work sometimes I'll ask somebody, "How are you doing?" And they'll say, "I'm here." Sometimes that's the most you can do. Sometimes that's ALL you can do. In times like those it is important to remember that you don't have to be a superhero every second of every day. You don't always have to expect so much from yourself. Or let others expect so much from you. Sometimes just showing up is enough. Especially Spiritually speaking, where we know that God cares more about availiablity than ability. God wanted Moses to speak to Pharaoh. Moses said, "I s-s-stutter. I'm the w-w-wrong man for the job." God said, "No you're not. But I'm going to give you a mouthpiece anyway. Take Aaron with you." Problem solved. God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory. The key is to trust in Him. Dont try to live out of your own power. I can't get out of the bed with my own strength. Luckily for me, HIS strength is made perfect in my weakness. When I can't... that's when He will. When you work, God will rest. But when you rest, God will work. He doesn't force Himself on His people. He makes Himself available to His people. That's why Romans 10:13 says, "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." It's about the afterlife. It's about being saved from whatever's plauging you right now. It's a "break glass in case of emergency." It's a Savior holding you up when everything else is trying to drag you down. It's LOVE holding you up. To live is to love and to love is to live. That's the secret of life. So when we're talking about those days that we feel like we're no good, or we just can't do anything right, or we might NOT make it from the start of the day to the end of the day... that's when God can really show up in a big way. Because those are the days we need Him--His love--the most. Now think about this: We know that God loves us. It is our duty to love Him back by loving each other. So when someone else is having "one of those days," instead of kicking them when they're down, or looking down on them in a judgmental way, what we need to do is help them up. Love them even harder. Give what we've got to an even greater degree. That's OUR time to shine. I believe God gives opportunities. And that doesn't mean He creates bad situations. Sometimes life is just life. I mean, when you know what you've got... and you see someone who needs what you've got... that's an opportunity for you to give what you've got. And when you give it, you experience it. When Jesus was hungry He sent His disciples to get food. Then He ministered to someone. Then the disciples returned... but Jesus wasn't hungry anymore. He said, " ...My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work" (John 4:34). Jesus was filled up by giving what He had inside. Letting it out so that someone else could have it. Sharing it. Sharing the good news. If you want to live... you have to love. It's that simple. And if you're having a bad day... love anyway. It just might turn your day around. It most certainly will turn someone else's day around!

Jesus said a lot of things that were misunderstood by a lot of people, including His own disciples. But every one in a while He'd make things pretty clear. For example: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). We (especially religious folk) are so interested in the "afterlife" when Jesus came that we might HAVE life. Right here and now. While we can, you know, live it. Which is also why He made this very clear: "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). When you don't know what to do... do what you know. Love. The people of Israel were given a Top Ten, right? And then made another 600 some odd off of those ten. But that was primarily because they had been slaves for hundreds of years and didn't know anything except slavery. They were transitioning from being completely controlled to be completely free. And that's not an easy transition. So God gave them guidelines. With the full expectation that the people wouldn't (couldn't) keep the Law of Moses. Because He also set up a system of animal sacrifice in order to "get them out of trouble" if I can say it that way. Which was, of course, fullfilled in the person and work of Jesus. The Lamb of God that didn't just cover sin, but took away the sin of the world. I honestly, even when reading the Old Testament of the Bible, do not understand where this idea of an angry God who is out to get you comes from. He has always done everything He could to protect His people. Even going as far back as taking Adam and Eve (who were ashamed of their nakedness and trying to cover it with fig leaves--their own human effort) and covering them with lamb skin. Covering them... with Himself. God has never wanted us to be in trouble. What father would? He has never wanted to punish. Only to chasten and correct. To train us up in the way we SHOULD go. To teach us how to live. Which means to teach us how to love. 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 coming so that we might have life, and that more abundantly... means Jesus filling us up with His love. So that we could fill ourselves up with it... by giving it away. Love is giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. Love one another... as Jesus has loved you. Receive and release His love, and in that way experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love by letting Him live His own life in us, and through us, and as us. Rest in His loving arms. And let me say this, because this was the phrase I had in my head when I picked the title for this Rant: If you live to love... you will love to live. Life will stop being so hard all the time. You will still have to go through stuff... but stuff won't go through you. You'll be able to enjoy the journey. The journey into the heart of the matter, which is the heart. God's heart beating with love in our chests. That's what this life is all about. That's what this life IS. And in order to enjoy that life... we simply give what we've got. Let what's inside come out. Jesus came that we might have life. Let's live it. Let's love it!

I think, if anything, this is the main thrust of my ministry. The connection between living and loving. And how you can't do one without the other because they are not just connected... they are, in fact, the same thing. It's kind of like how love is giving, right? You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. Well, in an even more excellent way, you CAN'T live without loving because to live IS to love. And to love is to live. Look at Luke 4:3-4, "And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." And, let's be real, do you think Jesus COULDN'T turn the stone into bread? Of course He could. He had no problem turning water in wine, right? That wasn't the point. The point was that the devil was missing the point. Like we saw in our last Rant series, the mind controls the body, not the other way around. Heaven affects earth. You need bread, sure, but that by itself won't get it done. We live by every word of God. And what, pray tell, is the Word of God? Jesus. Love. We live because He lives in us. We live because He loves us. And we live BY loving each other. By receiving and releasing the love of God. Letting what God has put into us come out, by knowing and believing that it's in there. By breathing it in and breathing it out. By filling ourselves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. What I'm trying to say is--and this is a lyric from a song-- "What you got if you ain't got love? The kind that you just want to give away..." What are you doing with your life if you're not loving people? To me, that's not "living." There are a lot of people out there just going through the motions. Just barely surviving. And, listen, sometimes that's about all you can do. I get that. But God is always with us. Which means love is always with us. We live by His Word. And when we let His Word be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path... that's when we go from merely surviving... to thriving! That's when we begin to enjoy the ride. That's when things get real. And real exciting. Real good. Real happy. In a rather unfortunate turn of events, it seems as though the religious world has turned "happy" into a four letter word. "Oh, he preaches a happy gospel, you can't trust him." The gospel is the good news! The ultimate truth of the universe that God is love and He loves you! If that doesn't make you happy, I don't know what will! God's love for us is everything. We literally can't live without it. Remember the verse about being crucified with Christ? We died when He died... and we live BECAUSE He lives. In us, and through us, and as us. We live because of His live. If you want to experience Jesus's abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love to the fullest... it comes from letting HIM live His own life in us (one more time), and through us, and as us. Letting God love us and then loving Him back by loving each other. That's what it means to truly live. If you want to live, you have to love. Because to live IS to love, and to love is to live. They aren't just connected. They are the same thing!

I've preached and Ranted about the idea of binding and loosing before. And, let's be real, I probably will again. So I don't want to get into that too far today, to end this Rant series, but I want to use Matthew 18:18 as my memory verse for today. "Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Oddly enough, I've heard people use this verse in regard to us declaring things on earh in order to get God to move. As if it is HIS job to line up with OUR wants. That's backwards. Completely twisted around. What you bind on earth must already be bound in heaven. Because that's where the power to bind comes from. What you loose on earth must already be loosed in heaven. Because that's where the power to loose comes from. What's that old song say? "Touching heaven... changing earth." Remember how we started this Rant series? With the idea of not just making heaven our home... but making our home like heaven. The days of heaven on earth. Heaven is what it's supposed to be. The trick is to experience it here on the earth. Or, if you can continue my picture of heaven as the mind of Christ... we can experience heaven right here in this body. Heaven is the mind, earth is the body. Heaven on earth. Heaven IN earth. God's mind, His Spirit, His love... in our bodies. That's who Jesus is: God in the flesh, love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. So instead of trying to get God to move heaven and earth by going around "binding and loosing" everything in sight, we need to simply shine the light of the world so that we can see what is already bound and already loosed. And then we can proceed from there. We can operate in the power that we have instead of trying to use what power we don't to try to get things that we think we don't have, but really do. It's the same idea as trying to be someone you're not in order to get something you (think you) haven't got. Trying to affect heaven by changing earth. That's not how it works. Look at Matthew 6:10, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." That's the Divine Order of things. In earth... as it is in heaven. Heaven comes to earth. Earth doesn't go to heaven. Remember when the people of the earth tried to build a tower up to heaven and make a name for themselves? God didn't like that. He didn't want that. It has always been His heart to come down to us. To meet us where we're at and lift us up to Him. When Jesus was lifted up from the earth--into the heavens--He drew all men into Himself. When heaven and earth meet each other... that's when we experience heaven ON earth. That's when we experience the Kingdom of Heaven... on earth. Ruling and reigning as kings and priests on this earth. Ruling and reigning... in love. For love. By love. Because of love. It's all about love. That's what heaven is--the realm of love. And that's not just WHERE we are... that's who we are! So don't wait for some pie in the sky, over the rainbow, some day in some way "blessed hope" of ending up in heaven. Experience it here and now. Let the mind of Christ that's already in you... BE in you! That, friends, is how we experience God's love. That's how we live in heaven.