Connection part 3
If we can find a point of connection we can build a bridge. If we can stop condemning each other we can start helping each other. The deep calls out to the deep. The Jesus in me is the same as the Jesus in you. And while that love may be buried deep inside... it's there. All we have to do is let it out. And all we have to do in order to let it out is know and believe that it's in there. A light doesn't try really hard to shine. A light shines because it has been turned on. Let me say it another way, "For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 4:6 NLT). God HAS MADE His light shine in our hearts. He said, "Let there be light" and there was light. And because of that we can shine! Look at Isaiah 60:1, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee." Thy light IS come. We don't need the light because we have the light. We ARE the light. And do you know what light does? It lets you see things clearly. Lets you see that the finished work of the cross HAS put things in Divine Order. Let's you see that we are all in this together. We don't have to make people jump through hoops in order to love them. We don't have to make people conform to the world--or our version of it--when we understand that we have been conformed to the image of God's only Son. As He is so are WE in this world. WE are all different members of the same body. We are all connected. Whether we want to admit it or not. For whatever reason it seems like we're more willing to build walls than bridges. More willing to destroy things than to build them. More willing to separate than to connect. And I think it comes down to fear. Plain and simple. We fear things we don't understand. We fear things that are different. So we try to control them, and make them conform. But that's not love. There is no fear in love. Fear casts out love! When you know that you're not loving in order to get something, but loving because you have something to give... that makes it simple. And that makes it easy. Don't worry about whatever else is going on. Just share what you've got. It's like a boomerang. What you put out there comes back to you. Things get bigger, and better, and more real when you share them. You have what the world needs. You ARE what the world needs. Because you have love... and you ARE love. THAT is our connection. THAT is how we can be all things to all people. Find that common ground. That shared experience. That place where everything else fades away and only love remains. To live is to love and to love is to live. We connect with each other by loving each other. By helping each other. By edifying each other. We connect with each other Spirt to Spirit, holy to holy. When the Jesus in me lines up with the Jesus in you... that's when we line up with each other!