Day Star part 5
When the day star arises in our hearts... Jesus shows up in us, and through us, and as us! Because He IS the day star. The bright and morning star. The sun (SON) that lights up the day. Now look at 1 John 3:2 through the lens of God living--and appearing--in us, and through us, and as us: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." And I love where this verse starts; We ARE the Son(s) of God. Now. Already. Without doing anything to "get" it or "earn" it. The thing of it is, is that we don't always know what it looks like to BE the Son(s) of God. Sometimes we get mixed up with religious calisthenics. Or we stumble around in the dark, if I can put it that way. When I was young and (mildly) wild and crazy my dad always either said I was "going around the mountain" or "wandering in the wilderness." Point is, you can't be who you are unless you know who you are. That's where the light comes in. Shining on us, and in us, and out of us, and through us. Illuminating that glorious truth that says, "As He is, so are we in this world." As showing us HOW He is. So we can understand how--and who--we are. When Christ appears... he appears in us. He appears every time we act in love. That's when the Word is made flesh. Charity. Love in action. And that's when we see Him clearly. When a human loves another human... that's God. That's when we know what its all about. That's when we know why we're here--to be loved by God and to love Him back by loving each other. Receiving and releasing God's love is what its all about. And just in case you think that's the wrong order, remember: You can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. "We love him, because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). And we love Him by loving each other. Whatever we do to the least of them, we do to the King, right? So now that we know--through the Holy Spirit--that God has filled us up with His love... we can fill ourselves to overflowing with that love. We can let what's inside come out. Naturally. We can let God love the hell out of us, and then we can let the love flow through us and love the hell out of each other. That's what happens when the day star--again, Jesus... love--arises in our hearts. Because I don't believe we can keep ANYTHING inside for too long. Much less the love of God, which is all powerful. Its too big. Too good. And the more we dwell ON God's love for us, the more we dwell IN His love for us. And that's when, one more time, it comes out of us. Naturally. The light doesn't struggle against the darkness. The light obliterates the darkness. Go into a dark room and turn the light on. There's no struggle. You're just not in a dark room anymore. You can see clearly. You can stop trying to PUT things into Divine Order when you SEE that things ARE already IN Divine Order. So let your light shine. Let love guide the way. See Jesus--love--clearly when He arises in your heart. Stop trying to follow in His foot steps and just let Him make His own foot steps with your feet. Stop trying to be someone you're not and just enjoy being who you are as God reveals your true self to you, and in you, and through you, and as you!