The mystery is God's love for us. Because a lot of the time it doesn't seem to make any sense. We are our own worst enemies a lot of the time. Because we are with ourselves ALL of the time. We know the worst things we've done. We know what we're capable of on our worst days. And those bad things always seem to weigh so much more than all of the good things we do. So we think, "How can God possibly love me when I don't even love myself?" We think we aren't worthy of love. We think it's something that must be earned and we think we always fall short of earning it. But look at Colossians 2:2-3, "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knoweldge." It's an acknowledgement of the mystery. Not a "figuring out" of the mystery. "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word (which is Jesus, which is love) of God. Believing that what He says about us is true. Period. Becuase in Him is hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And in us... is Him. We have an unction from the Holy Spirit and we know all things. But we don't always accept everything we know. Or we don't always fully understand everything we know. We KNOW the ultimate truth of the universe--the God is love and He loves you--but we don't seem to fully embrace that truth. The truth HAS set us free and made us free, but it's only in knowing and believing that truth that we can experience that freedom. The jail cell is unlocked. But we need to step out of prison. The way of grace has been made for us. But we have to respond to it with the walk of faith. The mystery is "God loves me. All of the time. No matter what. Nothing can separate me from His love." And the mystery is revealed to us (and in us, and through us, and as us) as God loves us. No matter what. He makes the mystery plain and clear. He makes it really simple. Love others as God loves you. Let Him love you and love Him back by loving people. It's that simple. That's what this life is for. That's what this life is all about. It's all about love! God works in mysterious ways because He works through people. The same people that get down on themselves for those terrible things they've done... are the same people who are capable of great love. All we have to do is let what's truly inside us come out... by knowing and believing it's in there. Fill ourselves to overflowing with the love that God has filled us with. Hurting people hurt people, right? But loved people love people. The mystery is, "How could God love me?" The answer is, "Because He IS love!" The mystery is, "Why does God love me?" The answer is, "Because you're His." The mystery is, "How do we love each other?" The answer is, "Because He first loved us." Receiving and releasing what God has done, is doing, and will do in us. Releasing who God is in us. Letting the love that's inside come out. That's the mystery--Christ in you, the hope of glory--revealed!

The thing that I want to make as clear as possible... is that the mystery has been revealed. It's not a mystery anymore. Look at Ephesians 1:7-9, "In whom we haev redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself." Add that to what we talked about yesterday about how it is God's glory to conceal a thing and our honor to search it out. In this context the way we "search it out" is to let Him reveal it to us. He has made it known according to his good pleasure. He wants us to know Him. He doesn't want to be distant and unknowable. He wants us to know Him. I always come back to Jesus saying, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." He wants to be seen. He wants to be understood. Every time anybody ever needed a sign from God... He gave it to them. He's not afraid to show who He is. He's not afraid to give us what we need. On the cross He gave us everything we need. Everything we will ever need. Everything we could ever need. We have it. It's at hand. It's available to us. The mystery is not, "How do I get what I need?" The mystery is more like, "I have what I need... how did I get it and what do I do with it?" Because until you can see the finished work... you'll always be trying to finish it yourself. And until you know what you've got... you'll never be able to experience and enjoy what you've got. So we need to change our view of things, I think is what I'm trying to say. Stop looking at it like we have to figure God out. He's not hard to figure out. The ultimate truth of the universe is not complicated. "God is love and He loves you." The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. Simple. But not always easy. And that's the trick. That's the key. It's not always easy to believe that God loves you. We get into our heads and we get into our own way. That's why faith is so important. Faith like a child. Fighting the good fight of faith. Which is laying hold of what we've been already been given. Not getting something we don't have. You don't "faith" your way into getting something. You have faith that you can do what you've been created to do because of who you already are and what you already have. You have faith... in God. You have faith... in love. Because God FIRST loved us. It's not a quest for love. It's a quest to USE the love we have. To give it away. Because that what love IS; love is giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. Here's the real mystery: "That was really nice of you. Why did you do that?" And here's the mystery revealed, "Because I love you." I believe that that's why we should do everything we do. We should do it heartily. To the best of our ability, and because it's in our hearts to do it. Love should be our motivation. That's the revelation of the mystery. Christ in you, the hope of glory. Yes. But it's the hope of REVEALED glory. Christ IN you... coming OUT of you!

The coolest thing about the mystery of God... is that it has been revealed in the person of Jesus. Man got into a lot of trouble because of what he didn't know. He swallowed the lie that said, "You have to do in order to be." The lie that said, "If you eat from this tree, you will be like God." And I say lie because that's what it was. That's what it is. In the beginning we were created in the image and likeness of God. We didn't have to do anything to be like Him. We were already like Him. The problem was that we didn't know what we were like, or what He was like. I had a teacher in high school a long time ago who said, "I think God was created in man's image." Because all throughout the Old Testament--lived, and written without the benefit of the indwelling Holy Spirit--we see God acting like a human. Getting upset. Ruled by His emotions. But then when Jesus comes we see something different. We see Jesus telling Phillip, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." That was, in fact, one of the biggest reasons for Jesus's earth walk ministry. He came to show us who God is. Jesus--God in the flesh, love in a body. God in our flesh, love in our body. Because God is love. And God lives in us. That's as simple as I can make it. The mystery of God--the mystery of love--which we seem to have made into, "If I'm so horrible, how could anybody love me?" is really, "what is the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of God's love for me?" It's not, "Why does God love me?" Or even (especially), "Does God love me?" It's, "How good is this love, really?" And the answer is... it's a love without end. It better than anything we could ask or even think about. It's the best thing going. So our job-- let me quote my memory verse. "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter" (Proverbs 25:2). God has concealed His love--Himself--in US. And it's our honor to search it out. To LET it out. To receive it and release it. To let God reveal Himself to us, and in us, and through us, and as us. The mystery is Christ in you, the hope of glory. But the mystery is revealed when Christ--LOVE--comes out of you with every breath you take and every move you make. Breathing in the love of God and then breathing it out. Revealing the mystery to others even as it is revealed to us. Filling ourselves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. The mystery is not getting something we haven't got. The mystery is doing something with what we have got. Letting what's inside come out. By knowing what's inside. By knowing and believing that God's love IS inside of us and CAN come out of us. Believing in God. Believing in love. And, in a very real sense, believing in ourselves. Not in prideful way. Or an, "I can do it myself way." But simply believing that we are capable of doing what we were created to do. I know I can't do everything. But I always try to do what I can do. And what I can always do, no matter what, is love people. Let God love me and then love Him back with that same love!

I like to be right about things. Not a state secret, eh? It's surely better than the alternative. But the thing about God is that He doesn't want us to lean on our own understanding. He wants us to trust HIM. He wants us to know that He's in control. Be still and know that HE is God, right? Every time man tries to do it himself, it goes south fast. But every time man puts it in God's hands it becomes exactly what it's supposed to be. I talk a lot about God equipping and empowering us. Because I believe that's what He does. But He equips us and empowers us... to love. By filling us up... with love. With Himself. It's the power of God working in us to will and to do of HIS good pleasure. It's not God winding us up and letting us go. Giving us a pat on the back and a kick in the butt and saying, "Good luck. Don't screw up." It's God doing what HE wants to do in us, and through us, and as us. It's Jesus living HIS abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love (one more time) in us, and through us, and as us. It's all about the journey, not so much the destination. It's about God working in mysterious ways... because He works through people. And people are pretty mysterious. Let me quote some Bible before I run out of room. "But we speak of the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory" (1 Corinthians 2:7). We speak of widsom... in a mystery. We see... through a glass darkly. We have an unction from the Spirit and we know all things... but we're continually coming into the understanding of that which we know. It's all about letting God reveal Himself to us. Here, "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51). Or, amd this is actually my key passage for this Rant series, "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 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" (Colossians 1:26-27). The mystery. Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? (Answered, at least in part, in "The Answer Trilogy" books I wrote, if you can forgive me for a shameless plug.) And the answer, in a word: Jesus. Christ in you. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. The mystery... that has been revealed. It was hidden, not it is made manifest. Christ in you. The hope of glory. The hope of REVEALED glory. The outerworking of the inner man. What's inside--what's REALLY inside, which is the love of God--coming out. Naturally. As we know and believe that it's in there. As we receive it and release it. As we experience and enjoy the gift we've been given... by giving it away. And that's why it's a mystery--it seems to make no sense. The first is last? The last is first? It's more blessed to give than to receive? Humble yourself to be exalted? Give everything you have in order to have something? But that's point. The Kingdom is different from the world. It should be. It has to be. It's a mystery because you can't figure it out with the "carnal" mind. You have to let the mind of Christ (that's already in you) BE in you. You have to let God reveal it to you. Let God reveal Himself to you. Let God reveal LOVE to you!

Stick with me as we end this Rant series tonight. Because I want to drop my memory verse first and then build off of it. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5, "And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the widsom of men, but in the power of God." I've been on a kick lately--it's been heavy on my heart, if I can say it that way--to try to help us (myself included) understand that what we have is 100% who God is. We have faith... because He is faithful. We have forgiveness... because He has forgiven us. We have grace... because He is graceful. All good and perfect gifts come down from the Father of lights. Our heavenly Father. Which makes us the lights. Jesus identified Himself as the light of the world, and He identified US as the light of the world. Same light. The light of life. The light of love. God's Word (which is Jesus, which is love) is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. We are steadfast... because HE is steadfast. Our faith is not built upon the wisdom of men. Because--look, we have an unction from the Spirit and we know all things. We know the ultimate truth of the universe that God is love and He loves us. But knowing it and understanding it are two different things. Head knowledge vs heart knowledge. You can know something is true without really understanding the height, and depth, and length, and breadth of it. That's what this never-ending eternal life-long journey is all about. It's about getting to the heart of the matter. Which is the heart of God beating in our chests. The heart of God saying "I love you" with every beat. "I love you. I love you. I love you." And it's that consistency, that unconditional presence of His love that equips and empowers us to do everything we were meant to do. Which, by the way, in a word, is love. We were created to love. We are meant to love. Filled to overflowing with love. Guys... it's all about love. But in order to be steadfast IN love, love has to be steadfast in US. That makes sense, right? You can't give what you don't have and you can only give what you do have. So you have to first have it. We love because He first loved us. He gave us what He wanted us to have so that we could use it. So that we could enjoy it by giving it away. By sharing it. Paul was writing of demonstrating the Spirit in power. Charity. Love in action. Putting our money where our mouth is, so to speak. Living a life that exemplifies and glorifies God... by receiving and releasing His love. That's all we're ever supposed to do. Let God love the hell out of us and then love Him back by loving each other. That's what this life is all about. And that's why God loves us all of the time, no matter what--so that we can love each other all of the time. No matter what. So that we can stand in the power of God. The power of love. We can let that love flow through us. Into us and out of us with every breath we take and every move we make. We can be, as one preacher put it, the spout where the glory comes out. We can experience, and enjoy, this life we've been given by sharing the love we've been given. No. Matter. What. We can be steadfast in His love by being steadfast in our love one to another!

"And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock" (Matthew 7:25). I try not to start these Rants with a Bible verse, but I like this one. It's kind of dramatic. The storm came! But don't worry, because everything was ok. Because the house was built upon a strong foundation. A rock. Kind of says everything I've been trying to say in this Rant series. We can be steadfast because God (love) is steadfast. We are standing upon that Rock, and we will not (cannot) be shaken. Let me say it another way. "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). Life happens. Every single day. And the most important part... is just showing up. God doesn't look for ability. He looks for availability. He provides whatever is needed. You simply have to be open to letting Him do what He wants to do... in you, and through you, and as you. "Here I am, Lord, choose me." Responding to the Way of Grace with the Walk of Faith. Not walking by sight, by walking by faith. And that, as always, includes walking. Rest is not inactivity. Rest is Holy Spirit directed activity. And since the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth--the ultimate truth of the universe that says God is love and He loves you--the only thing the Holy Spirit can, or will, direct us to do... is love! Jesus said people would know His disciples because of the love they showed one to another. That's what it's all about. That's the rock that we stand on. The foundation that we build on. Love is what gets us through the storm. There are different preachers that have different... idosyncrasies. Like getting Moses and Noah mixed up, for example. Well, one of mine is that even though I know a carpenter is more of like... a furniture builder... I always equate Him with a house builder. Because, of course, we are the house that God built for Himself to live in. We are the house founded upon the rock that won't fall no matter how the rain, and floods, and wind batter us. We are still strong. Still standing. Because of love. Love holds us up. I try to preach that memory verse a lot. Praise be to God who keeps us from falling. He holds us up no matter what. LOVE holds us up no matter what. Because love is steadfast. Love never fails because love endures. It is unshakeable. Unchangable. Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. And that unconditional love--God loving us all the time no matter what--is what equips and empowers us to be able to GIVE unconditional love. We can love others all the time no matter what. We can release what we've received. We don't have to worry about the storm. In this world we WILL have tribulation. Storms WILL come. That's life. And life happens. But we can be of good cheer. We can walk and not stumble. We don't have to keep trying to pick ourselves up because God can (and will, and does) keep us from falling! He holds us up. No matter what's going on around us. The fire in us is always hotter than the fire we're in. The fire is a Holy Ghost wildfire that feeds on itself and burns and burns and consumes everything but itself. A love fire that cannot be quenched or put out!

If you want something different, do something different. Unless you're building something. In which case, stay the course. Because Rome wasn't built in a day. Sometimes you have to be steadfast in doing what you know to do, even when it's hard. Even when it seems like what you're doing isn't making a difference. Let me tell you: you make a difference. The things you say and do... matter. YOU matter. You have more of an effect on people than you think you do. Which is to say, you can BE the change you want to see in the world. It can start with you. Letting what's inside come out by knowing and believing that it's in you. And not... let me quote my memory verse for today. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to a fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive" (Ephesians 4:13-14). When we know what's inside us (the love of God), when we know who we really are (which is who we are in Christ... which is who Christ is in us) we can be steadfast, and not tossed around by every wind of doctrine. When you know the truth you can just ignore the lie. You don't even have to listen to it. You don't even have to give it the time of day. You don't have to fight it. Or defeat it. You can just ignore it. Stand tall and firm and steadfast in the truth and don't even worry about whatever else. And that, by the way, in my opinion, is what it means to rest. We don't always have to be up in arms about everything. We don't always have to be on a hunt to get the sin out of the camp. Jesus dealt with it already. He took away the sin (unbelief) of the world, by giving us (the world) something (someONE, Himself) to believe in. We don't have to fight all these battles. Jesus fought--and won--the war to end all wars on the cross. The last enemy to be defeated was death. And Jesus defeated death by dying and then coming back to life. Done deal. Mission accomplished. It is finished. So if the last enemy has been defeated, and the only fight left is the good fight of faith--laying hold of eternal life--then all we need to do is receive the gift we've been given. All we need to do is let God love the hell out of us and then love Him back by loving the hell out of each other. It's about knowing the truth and letting the truth set you, and make you, free. It's about being steadfast. Standing in His love and not being shaken. Building those relationships and connections. Even when it takes time and effort. Almost anything worth having takes time and effort. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Love is giving. So loving people means giving yourself--everything you have and everything you are--to people. Sacrifice. Laying your life down. Letting the love inside fill you up so much that you couldn't keep it in if you wanted to. And knowing that it's too big, and too good, to even want to keep to yourself. It's like when you have good news and you're just bursting at the seams to tell someone. To share it. To give what you've got, and in that way to experience what you've got!

I know the word "steadfast" has the word "fast" in it. But I think that might be one of those ironic things. Because, really, it's more of a "slow and steady wins the race" kind of deal. A "Rome wasn't built in a day" kind of thing. Love never fails, because love endures. Is what I'm trying to say. No matter what happens... God's love towards us is steadfast. Unmoving. Unshakeable. Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Nothing that happens, nothing that anybody else does, and nothing that we do. Nothing. God loves us. Period. Exclamation point. No matter what. No matter where. No matter when. His love for us is the Rock that everything else is built on. It's the Rock we can stand on. And when we stand on that Rock of love... we cannot be shaken. It drives me nuts that most of what I hear religious folk talk about is God picking us up and dusting us off. Which, listen, He will do. Over and over again as many times as He needs to. But I never hear anybody talk about how, rather than us falling in the first place, He can (and will, and wants to) keep us from falling. Look at Jude 1:24, "Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy." Exceeding joy. Connected to Him keeping us from falling. It's His genuine pleasure to keep us where we need to be. Where He wants us to be. Standing on that Rock. The storm comes, but it doesn't matter because our foundation is strong. Unshakeable. Steadfast. And because our foundation is solid, whatever we build will be solid. When you build ON love, WITH love, you'll really have something cooking. You'll really be building something worthwhile. But that's where I really wanted to get to today: Building. Because I always say, "If you want something different you have to do something different. Unless you're building something. In which case, keep up the good work." Baby steps are still forward steps. What's that quote by Martin Luther King Jr.? "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you wan't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." It's not about how fast you go. It's about how far you go. And another old saying goes like this, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We're all in this together. "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken" (Ecclesiastes 4:12). Or, "Many hands make light work." That might not be in the Bible, but it's pretty solid. I'm trying to say, when we're building... we can build together. We can help each other. We can run this race together. Both hand in hand, and as a relay race. Because if I do my part, and you do your part, chances are it will all get done. Things work out better when we work together. This is an US thing, not a me vs you thing. I can love you no matter what--I can be steadfast in loving--because God loves me no matter what--because HE is steadfast in loving US. He fills us up with His love and then we simply receive it and release it. We build on the Rock. We build RELATIONSHIPS and CONNECTIONS on the basis and foundation of LOVE!

We have faith in God (in love) because He proves Himself faithful. We trust in Him because He proves Himself trustworthy. Do you see a theme developing? We can be steadfast in His love, because His love is steadfast in us. Now, according to dictionary.com "steadfast" means, "Fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze. Firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person: a steadfast friend. Unwavering, as resolution, faith, adherence, etc. Firmly established, as an institute or a state of affairs. Firmly fixed in place or position." Now, if that doesn't describe our God--who is love, so it describes His love for us--I don't know what does. God's love for us never fails. Because it (HE) endures. There is nothing we can do (or not do) that will ever make Him change His mind about us. We are the apple of His eye. We are His favorite creation. He created us in order to be able to express Himself to us, and in us, and through us. To share the love, if I can say it that way. Now look at this: Genesis 15:6 in the Amplified Bible, "And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God)." We think--even in this day and age--that the Law of Moses (which was only ever given to the people of Israel, and then fulfilled and put away on the cross) is how we judge righteousness, both our own and each others. But before there was a Moses, there was Abram (Abraham). God promised Abraham a son, and Abraham believed God, and that was righteousness. Simply believing the Word of God. Believing that what God says is true. And it's interesting that Abraham got tired of waiting for God to fulfill that promise, and tried to do it himself... but grace rewrote the story. Nobody focuses too much on Abraham having a kid with his servant. The promised child coming from his wife is the story. Look at Romans 4:3, "For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness." And Romans 4:20, "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God." Abraham believed and that was good enough. He tried to make it happen on his own, but God didn't punish him, or disqualify him, or reneg on the promise. Because what God does isn't dependent on what we do. God's going to do what He's going to do. Period. And He wants to include us in it if at all possible. That's His heart. That's His nature. That's His love. His love doesn't come and go according to us. His love is steadfast. Unmoving. Unblinking. There is nothing you can do that will surprise God. He knows the end from the beginning. He knows you at your best and at your worst. And He still loves you more than anything. That steadfast, unwavering, longsuffering, enduring love is what equips and empowers US to love. To give what we've got by knowing we've got it. No matter what. Mistakes don't disqualify us. We are the righteousness of God in Christ. Every day. No matter what. That's not just what we do. That's who we are. And when we can stand steadfast in our true identity, that's when we can stop trying to be someone we're not and that's when we can be who we are. Who we REALLY are. Which, again, is the righteousness of God in Christ!

When Jesus appears we will see Him as He is, and be Him as He is. Which you could, I guess, make it sound like something to wait for. But add this to that: "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). We are as He is. Right now. Always have been, always will be. Jesus did everything that needed to be done in order for us to experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us. All we need to do is rest--which is not inactivity, but Holy Spirit directed activity--and let Jesus be who HE is in us. That's who you really are--who you are in Christ is who Christ is in you. Jesus is God in the flesh, love in a body. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. Faith isn't hoping that someday you'll be good enough for Him to love you. Faith is knowing that He loves you with a knowlege that passes knowledge. Knowing and believing that you are loved, and in knowing and believing that you ARE loved... knowing and believing that you CAN love. That you are LOVE. It's not just what you do, it's who you are. Because God is love. And as He is, so are we in this world. When God looks at Jesus He sees us, and when He looks at us He sees Jesus. There is no difference, or separation. Jesus said, "I and my Father are One" (John 10:30). And He said, "At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you" (John 14:20). The biggest thing about faith is believing all of the good things your heavenly Father says and thinks about you. That's the good fight of faith--laying hold of eternal life. Receiving (by releasing) the gift that we've already been given. It's not about getting something. It's about enjoying what we've got by giving it away. It's about sharing that gift. Sharing our lives. I've always felt that a relationship is best when it's just two people sharing their lives with each other. Not trying to control one another. Or get one over on each other. Not trying to get something from someone, but sharing what you have (who you are) with someone. You don't have to agree on everything to get along. You can take people as they are without trying to change them. Just love them and be there for them. That's as simple as I can make it. But, at the same time, you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. So let what's inside come out. By knowing and believing that it's in there. Let what you see be what you be. See HIM. See Jesus. See love. When you see Him as He truly  is, you'll BE Him as He truly is. We already are. But there's a manifestation that comes from knowing what we are. Instead of trying to be someone we're not, we can simply be who we are. We can stop trying so hard to be someone we're not and we can rest. We can embrace who we are, secure in the knowledge that our heavenly Father loves us more than anything. He shows us His love, and that's what makes faith anything but blind. "Why do you love God?" Easy. Because He first loved me. He gave me His love and now I have something that I can give away.