Beauty part 3
Hearing the Word of God (that is Jesus, that is love) and then not doing anything about it means one thing: You don't believe the Word that you've heard. And that's important because what you do matters. What you do flows from what you believe. Doing things from a posture of rest. Knowing that rest is not inactivity, but Holy Spirit directed activity. Knowing that it is what you do that makes you beautiful, not what you look like. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You are beautiful because your heavenly Father says you are. You are beautiful to Him, and that is what matters. The key to this abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love is simply receiving and releasing that truth. The ultimate truth of the universe is "God is love and He loves you." So when you heart that Word, "I love you. You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased," and then you DO something with that Word you've heard... that's when you truly experience the gift of life that you've been given. That's when you understand what this life is all about and what this life is for. Receiving... and releasing. Sharing what you've got. Giving it away. Hearing the Word and then acting on it. You can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. So you have to know what you have before you can do anything with it, but then you have to, you know, do something with it. God has made the Way of Grace. We respond with the Walk of Faith. If you don't do anything with what you believe... do you really believe it at all? True faith is an activator. The substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen. Putting your money where your mouth is, if I can say it that way. Because it's easy to say you believe something... when it doesn't really matter. When it doesn't really affect you. But when you're really put to the test and have to do something... it's like that old saying, "Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what's inside until you put them in hot water." How we act when the chips are down defines who we really are. Do we continue to stand on the Rock that will not be shaken? Or do we run around like chickens with their heads cut off? Do we look for love in all the wrong places? Or do we simply go to the source. The God who is love. The God who lives in us. Beauty comes from within. Because love comes from within. And there is nothing more beautiful, or holy, or important, that you can do than loving people. God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. That's what this life is. Life is about those connections and relationships that you build in your life. It is about giving what you've got to those that you come into contact with. Which, by the way, is HOW you build those relationships and connections. It's not about what you can get. Love is never about getting, because love IS giving. It's about knowing what you've got so you can experience what you've got by giving it away. By sharing it. By inviting people to partake. By seeing a need and meeting it. At the end of the day, physical looks fade. Father time is undefeated. But you can be beautiful no matter what. Because you can love no matter what. Your heavenly Father loves you. Period. Full stop. He has filled you up with the love that you need. And now you can experience that life of love by giving that love away. By letting Jesus live His own abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life in you, and through you, and as you. You can let the beauty inside come out by knowing and believing that it's in there. You can BE beautiful instead of just trying to look beautiful.