Knit part 1
We're like a quilt, really. Lots of different pieces and patches that are knit together to make a blanket. Colossians 2:2, "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ." We HAVE the Comforter--the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth, the truth that God is love and He loves you--and because we HAVE Him, we ARE Him. We can BE the Comforter. We can comfort each other. Because we're knit together... in love. And the part of this verse that I really like is "...the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God..." Because love, in a real sense, is a mystery. It doesn't make sense, from a natural point of view. But we have the full assurance of understanding the mystery. Which is to say: We know God loves us, and we can spend our entire everlasting, eternal, abundant, Resurrection Life letting Him show us what it means for Him to love us. Its a journey into the heart of the matter. And the heart of the matter is God's heart beating in our chests. Saying, "I love you" with every beat of His heart. Love is what knits us together. Love is what binds us together. Love is what connects us. God's love inside of us coming out of us as we know and believe that its in there. We love Him (by loving each other) because He first loved us. In order to love God we HAVE to love people. Because whatsoever we do unto the least of them we do unto Him, right? How we treat people is how we treat God. How we relate to people is how we relate to God. You can't have horrible relationships with the people in your life and think you have an amazing relationship with God. It doesn't work that way. God is love. Love is expressed to people. That's why I always say I think the only two things in life that are important--or at least that are MOST important--are God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. Using LOVE to knit ourselves together. I can't stress how important relationship is. That's the whole point of the whole thing. Its not good for man to be alone. We're all in this together. So rather than thinking "I have it all figured out, and I know more than you, so that makes me better than you," we can acknowledge the mystery. Together. We can go through this journey... together. We can take what I know, what I understand, and we can take what you know, what you understand, and we can put them together to grow together in a bigger and better understanding. And in coming together to grow in our understanding of the mystery... we strengthen that bond. Things work out better when we work together. I can't do it all alone. And I'm not supposed to. You can't do it all alone. And you're not supposed to. But together, great things can happen. A patch can't cover everything. But a quilt can cover it all. Love can cover the multitude of sins!