God Complex part 2
A God complex is a love complex. It is (or, at least, should be) our focus. Like when I hear people say, "God wants to be a part of your life." I don't think so. I think God wants to BE your life, because He IS life. And since God IS love, that's what it comes down to. When Jesus identifies Himself as the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, that means that LOVE is where it starts and where it "ends." And I use quotation marks because every new beginning is some other beginning's end. So its not an "end" of the sense of finality. How could never ending life (LOVE) ever end? My point being, its all about love. And if we take this term "God Complex" to mean "Godlike" well... "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue" (2 Peter 1:3). We hae been given all things that we need in order to experience this God complex. "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). Its what I've been Ranting about recently, about having His mind and USING His mind. Letting the mind of Christ (that's already in us) BE in us. Being who we are by KNOWING (and believing) who we are. Not having a complex ABOUT God--and I think a lot of people do, in a negative sense, have a immediate turn off when someone mentions anything even remotely Spiritual--and not trying to be like this erronous idea of a cold, mean, distant, dictator "god." But understanding what it means that as He is, so are we in this world. Because as He is... so He is in us, and through us, and as us. Its a total and complete identification with our true identity: Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. That's what truly having a God complex is all about. Loving each other with that love that God loves us with. Which, by the way, is the New Commandment. Love one another as Jesus has loved you. Not as you hope He will love you someday. You don't love others in the hope that you will get something from it. That's not love. Love is not about getting. Love is about giving. Love IS giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. So a God complex--love complex--is giving everything you have and everything you are. Without expecting anything from anybody. This whole, "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine," thing... it doesn't work. Because if you expect something from someone, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. And if you're "loving" someone because you feel obligated to return the favor, that's not really love. Love flows freely when you fill yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with. Remember now, we love one another because He FIRST loved us. We love Him BY loving each other, because HE loved us first. Its receiving it and releasing it. Its feeding that love, so that it will grow. Feeding it by feeding the hungry. Experiencing it by giving it away. What you feed is what will grow. What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. You fix your thoughts by fixing them on things above. You have a God complex--in the correct, true way--when love is the most important thing in your life!