Clothed part 5
God wrapped us up in Himself. Clothed us with Lamb skin. And He also wrapped HImself up in us. In order to show us how to live. In order to show us what it means to be clothed with His life. His love. Look at Colossians 2:9-10, "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power." All the fulness of the Godhead in a body. God--who is Spirit... the Holy Spirit... the Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth... the truth that God is love and He loves you--wrapped up in a body. Which is who Jesus is: God in the flesh, love in a body. God in our flesh. Love in our body. That's what Jesus meant when He told Philip, "If you've seen me you've seen the Father." Because we are the visible expression of an invisible God. We are what people see when they are searching for God. Or searching for love. Looking for love in all the wrong places. Trying to earn something that can't be earned. Trying to get something they've already got. They look, and they seek, and they search... and they find... us. We find each other. What did Philip see when he saw the Father? When he saw Jesus? He saw a man who knew who He was. A man with love inside that came out with every breath He would take and every move He would make. He filled us up with Himself, and that's why we're complete in Him. Complete. Full. Lacking nothing and needing nothing. When you have love you have everything you need. You ARE everything you need to be. Not because of what you do, or try to do, or think you should do. Because of what you have been filled with. Because even as God was clothing humanity with Himself, He was clothing Himself with humanity. Jesus said in another place, "I and my Father are one." There is no difference between Father and Son. No separation. There is no difference between God and man. No separation. Look at John 14:20, "At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." Basically we are all in this together. Because He is in us all. In all the through all all of you all! So it's not like God just wound us up and sent us out on our own. All the Scripture about having a High Priest that knows what we've been through... because He's been through it. He wrapped Himself up in us and had a human experience. He knows what we're going through. He's been there, done that, got the t-shirt. So I think what I'm trying to say is: We don't have to figure it all out. He already figured it out and He's going through it (again) with us. Helping us through it. Holding our hand. Keeping us from falling. Holding us up. LOVE is holding us up. Because love is the only thing that can. Love is the only thing strong enough to hold us up. Because love never fails. Because love endures. Love will stand when no one and nothing else will. Love will give everything He has and everything He is. He will wrap us up in Himself even as He wraps Himself up in us. Getting rid of anything that we could think of to put between ourselves and Him. Giving His life FOR us, but more importantly giving His life TO us. So that we can have it. So that we can experience it as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us!