God Complex part 5
When we know who we are, we can stop trying to be someone we're not. I feel like that's one of my biggest refrains these days. But I feel like its so important that we understand this concept. Because as long as you're trying to be someone you're not--and that's what man-centered, performance-based religion is all about--you're robbing yourself of being who you really are. You're robbing yourself of the gift of God. The gift of eternal, everlasting, abundant, Resurrection Life that Jesus gave to us on the cross when He gave His life for us, and to us. Which means that the gift has already been given. Which means that we already have it. Which means that we can't earn it. We can only receive it and release it. Receive it BY releasing it. Which is why I'm defining a God complex as a love complex. Love is giving. Giving everything you have and everything you are. Laying your life down for your friends. And understanding that you destroy your enemies by making them your friends. Understanding that everyone is your friend. They just may not know it yet, and you may not know it yet. See, a God complex isn't about being better than everybody. Its about loving everybody. That's who God REALLY is: Love. Not an angry, distant, judgmental taskmaster, but a present, loving, heavenly Father. See, we don't "get" a God complex by trying to be the world's idea of a god. We HAVE a God complex when we understand that God is love and He loves you. And because He loves you, and lives in you, you can love Him back by loving people. That's what's important in this life: God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. So this God complex, this love complex, is simply using the mind of Christ. Letting the mind of Christ, that's already in us, BE in us. Thinking the thoughts of God, which are of peace, and not evil. The expected end that came 2,000 years ago on the cross. When the old man, Old Covenant, ended and the New Man, New Covenant, came forth. To have a complex about something means to fixate on it. And that's how we fix our minds, by fixing our minds on God. On love. Setting our affection on things above and not on things on the earth. Knowing what's inside us--the inner man, the hidden man of the heart, Jesus--and letting it out by believing its in there. Because you can't believe something you don't know. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word of God (again, Jesus. Love). So when we have love as our foundation, everything else builds off of that. When we know who we are, we can BE who we are. By walking by faith. LIVING by faith. Not trying to be like some worldly idea of "god" but knowing that as He is, so are we in this world. Knowing that we don't have to try to be like God because we're already like Him. Created in His image in the beginning. And conformed to the image of His Son on the cross. A God complex is a good thing. A very good thing. As long as we understand what it really means. I'm kind of obsessed with love. Because I can't think of anything more important than love. I have a complex about it (Him). It (HE) is always on my mind. And then, because its (He's) in there... it (HE) comes out. Naturally. Love inside has to come out, because its too big, and too good, to keep to ourselves!