Hand Full part 4
We need to stop looking without, and start looking within. We need to stop acting like we ARE without, and start enjoying the gift we've been given. Don't seek the Kingdom as if you don't have it. Seek it--EXPLORE it--to find out what you DO have! I liken it to the admonition in Ephesians 3:17-19, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." It's not about GETTING anything. It's about filling yourself with what you've already been filled with. Letting what's inside come out as we know and believe it's in there. As we let it overflow and come out naturally. God asked Moses, "What's in your hand?". He was about to do something special, but He was going to do it with what was readily available. Remember we always say, "God is more concerned with your AVAILABILITY than your ability." And then when Moses told the people God would fight for them, God told the people, "Don't just stand there. Move forward." We're always waiting for God to do something. For God to give us something. Guys. God did what He was going to do. It's called the cross. He gave us what He's going to give us. He gave us Jesus. He gave us His Spirit. He gave us Himself. He blessed us with all Spiritual blessings and gave us all things that pertain to life and godliness. The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into our hands. We don't need to get God to love us. He always has and always will. What we need to do is begin to comprehend that love. What we need to do--through the Holy Spirit, our love receptor--is let God love us. Let Him love us so big that we couldn't contain it if we tried. Jesus said when we believe in Him a river of life will flow from our bellies. From our innermost being. That river of life is a river of love. Because to live is to love, and to love is live. Love comes from our innermost being. It's already in there. We don't need it. We have it. We need to SHARE it. Love is real when you give it away. That's when it manifests. That's when YOU experience it, and others experience it. When you take what's in your hand, and use it. When you stop waiting for God to do something FOR you, and you let Him do something IN you. THROUGH you. AS you. That's when we know the love of Christ--when we love each other. That's the New Commandment: Love one another as Jesus loves you. That's how people will know you are Jesus' disciple: That you have love one for another. It's all about love. That's what the Kingdom of God is; the Kingdom of love. That's where we live, and that's who we are. We love, because He first loved us. He gave it to us. He filled our hands with it. And now we can do something about it. We can do something WITH it. Jesus told the people to repent--think differently in light of something that has happened--because the Kingdom was at hand. And now, on this side of the cross, it's not just AT hand... it's within us. It's not close. It's filling us to overflowing. We are literally full of it. So now we have something to give. Something that EVERYBODY needs. If you know it... throw it. If you have it... give it away. Share it. Experience it. Love it!