Know It All part 3
With an unction from the Holy Spirit, we know all things. That unction is the still, small voice deep inside us that says, "I love you, I love you, I love you," with every beat of God's heart in our chest. And it's that knowledge--that passes knowledge... heart knowledge, not head knowledge--that equips and empowers us to live our best life. Because if you're spending (wasting) all your time, talent, and treasure trying to get love... when you already have love... then you're wasting the gift you've been given. When you're always chasing the carrot but only ever getting the stick, that's like banging your head against the wall and only ever getting a headache. Trying to earn something that can't be earned--because you think you know it all, and you think eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil is the right way to go about being good and not being evil--is the best way to squander what you've already got. Trying to be someone you're not is the best way to waste who you already are. Who you have always been. And that's one of the things we KNOW when we know it all. When we know who God is--God is love and He loves you--that's when we can begin to truly live. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. They aren't just connected. They are the same thing. You can't do one without the other and you can't have one without the other. But when you know it all--that God is love and He loves you--that's when you can begin to explore that love. To comprehend with all the saints the height, and depth, and breadth, and length of his love. By loving people bigger and harder than you ever thought you could. By laying your life down for your friends, just as Jesus laid down His life for us. When we know the sacrifice that was made FOR us, that's when we can make that sacrifice for EACH OTHER. When we know that we are loved--that we have the love of God inside us--we can give what we've got instead of always trying to get something. And that's such a more excellent way to live. It truly is more blessed to give than to receive. To be selfless instead of selfish. And I'm telling you, if you can see past yourself to the place where you can see a need in someone else and meet that need... that's what life is all about. It's not all about you. We're all in this together. We need each other. We can--and should--help each other. Knowing it all means knowing that New Commandment: To love one another as Jesus loves us. To know that we are loved, and that we can love. To know what's inside of us so that we can watch it come out. Naturally. So that we can fill ourselves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. That's the key: Knowing what to do with what we have. Using what we have. Taking care of people. Connecting with people. Living with people. Loving people! Love is the most important subject there is. When we know about love--when we know that we are loved--we can love. And that means we can live. And that's the whole point of the whole thing. Living and loving. Knowing what's important and focusing on that. Knowing it all by knowing about love!