Honey part 2
Milk and honey. Righteousness and revelation. The revelation OF righteousness. That's what flows out of the Promised Land. That's what equips and empowers us to live the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God--by letting Jesus live it in us, and through us, and as us. Because the righteousness is the righteousness of God. And it is revealed to us--and in us, and through us, and as us--as Jesus reveals HIMSLEF to us, and in us, and thorugh us, and as us. We learn how to love as we learn how we are loved. Being a disciple of Jesus is being a student of love. Spending (not wasting) our life getting to the heart of the matter. And the heart of the matter... is the heart. God's heart beating with love in our chests. And that's pretty sweet. Like honey. Honey makes things taste better. Cheerios. Biscuits. Just about anything. The revelation of who we are in Christ--which is who Christ is in us--makes everything better. When you know love is everywhere (specifically, inside you), then you can stop looking for love in all the WRONG places, and you can let love out in ALL places. You can stop being a thermometer, which just TAKES the temperature, and you can start being a thermostat, which SETS the temperature. You can stop looking outside of yourself when you know what's inside. You can stop chasing love when you know that you ARE loved. You can be still and know that HE is God. You can stop trying to get something you think you haven't got, by being someone you're not, and you can embrace who you are. Who you REALLY are. But what you see is what you be. And eating the honey is what enlightens your eyes. Eating the honey is what lets you see things clearly. Because the world will tell you one thing--and it will pile up a LOT of evidence to try to convince you of what they're telling you--but when you know the truth... you can ignore the lie. When you look INTO the mirror instead of looking AT the mirror... you can see what's inside. You can see past the surface stuff and you can see the inner man. The hidden man of the heart. And when you see Him, you be Him. "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" (1 John 3:2). And I'm convinced that "appearing" is something that happens all the time. When He appears... to you. When He appears IN you. When He appears THROUGH you. When love appears, that's when He appears. Because God is love. That's not just what He does, that's who He is. But we can't see Him as He is without that honey that comes from dipping our rod into the honeycomb. It feels like something we're striving for... but its really just Jesus revealing Himself. Its HIM doing all of the heavy lifting. And that happened on the cross, when the light of the world shined for all to see. He did it all, so we could get it all. Because He wanted us to have it all. And now, on this side of the cross, we DO have it all. We just don't always see it that way. We see the grass as greener on the other side, or whatever cliche you want to use. But when we open our eyes we can see things clearly. See HIM clearly, and be OURSELVES clearly. We can see that we are loved, and because we are loved... we can love. Because we are loved... we ARE love!