DNA part 3
It's impossible to BE the real you unless you KNOW the real you. Until that happens, you will forever try (and fail) to be someone you're not. And that's pretty tragic. Heartbreaking. Because you were fearfully and wonderfully made. Made in the image of God, in fact. Which is why trying to act like your society's idea of who God is--what "holy" is--will never work. All it will ever be is an act. That's why what you DO isn't as important as who you ARE. Because, at the end of the day, who you are dictates what you do. We talk a lot about human nature, right? But normally we use it as an excuse because we just did something we're not particularly proud of. "Why in the world did you do that?" "Give me a break, I'm only human." ONLY human. As if there's something else we should aspire to be. Isn't it interesting that we're humans who think we're supposed to try to have a spiritual experience, when God is a Spirit and He became flesh in order to dwell among us? We've got it backwards. We think we need to do in order to be. But really we do BECAUSE we be. We think we're humans who are supposed to have a spiritual experience when really we're spirit having a human experience! We think we're "evil" and we're supposed to be "good." But really we were (before the cross) dead, and now we've been made alive! I'm telling you: Everything we need is inside us. The life is in the blood. By partaking of the divine nature--totally and completely identifying with Jesus--we can experience His life. The life He gave for us, and the life He gave TO us. The abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life that is the Father/Son relationship between God and man. God's heart beats with love. And because of the circumcision of the heart--made without hands--the flesh of human effort has been cut away and God's heart has been revealed in OUR chests! His blood runs through our veins. He poured His Spirit out on all flesh. He shed His blood for the remission of sins. Like when cancer goes into remission, right? It's there... and then it's gone. Behold, the Lamb of God who TOOK AWAY the sin of the world! He took away the sin and death that held us bondage. He freed us! He took away sin--or unbelief--by telling us, and showing us, the truth! The ultimate truth of the universe that says, "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand" (John 3:35). Daddy loves you. And because He loves you He gave you everything. Remember the story of the Prodigal Son? The father told the other son, "You are always with me and everything I have is yours." That's what I tell MY son all the time. "What's mine is yours." So we don't have to beg. Or try to earn. An inheritance is handed down from Father to Son. It's not what you do. It's who you are. Who your daddy is. If you're trying to be a son you're going to end up acting like a slave. But if you KNOW you're a son then you behave like one. Naturally. You go about your Father's business. Not to try to impress Him, or earn anything from Him, but because you believe in it. Because you're so full of your Father's business (loving one another) that it overflows out of you. Not works and labor--which don't work--but rest. Not trying to be someone you're not (which is impossible) but simply being yourself. Letting Jesus be HIMSELF in, and through, and as you!