Knit Together part 2
It's about unity. It really is. About us working together. Because we're all in this together. That's what being knit together is all about. Because we aren't just knit together in any common cause. We are knit together in love. That's the key. To everything. Certainly to unity. To connection. To relationship. The strongest bond you can have is that threefold cord--you, me, and Jesus. A bond of love. Look at John 17:21. This is Jesus speaking. The red letters. "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." How will the world know that we are disciples of Jesus? By the love we show one to another. How will the world believe that the Father sent the Son? Because we are all one in Him. All one in love. When people see love they see God, whether they know it, or understand it, or not. Because God is love. Let's be clear on that. God IS love. That's not just what He does. That's who He is. That's His nature. That's His MO, or method of operation. Everything God has ever done or will ever do... He did out of love. Because of love. In love. With love. For love. I'm trying to say it's all about love. The only way we CAN truly be knit together is in love. That's the only bond that cannot be broken. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing. Nothing we do, and nothing anybody else does. God loves you right now as much as He ever has. And that has always been true. That will always be true. God's love doesn't change. It grows, in a sense, as we come into a deeper understanding of it. But that's all to the good. Because the more we understand that we ARE loved... the more we CAN love. Because you can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. The New Commandment is to love one another as Jesus has loved you. So in order for us to love big... He must first love us big. And that works out for everybody because He always has and always will love us as big as possible. The key to all of this is giving what we've got by knowing and believing that we've got it. Being one in Him by knowing that we ALL are one in Him. Different parts of the body, yes, but the same body. The body of Christ. The New Man. The New Creation. As He is, so are we in this world. And as He is (one more time) is love. So as we are... is love. WHO we are is love. What we are is love. We knit ourselves together with each other by loving each other. That's the only way it can work. That's the only true bond that exists. So that's the one we should put our three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) into. When you get past all the noise you can hear a still, small voice saying, "I love you" with every beat of God's heart in our chests. We are knit together with Him. That's what I was planning to try to say today. And that's what allows us to be knit together with each other. It flows from the head down into the body. His love fills us up so that we can love Him back by loving each other. That's what this life is for and that's what it's all about!