Know It All part 5
Knowing it all--the ultimate truth of the universe that Daddy loves us and has given all things into our hand--doesn't mean much unless you understand what you know. That's why even though we have an unction from the Holy Spirit and we know all things... it is that same Holy Spirit that leads and guides us into all truth. The Holy Spirit is our teacher. He teaches us who we are, by teaching us who He is--who Jesus is. Because that's our true identity. And that's what's so glorious about the economy of the Kingdom; the emphasis is not on us seeking things out (as if we don't have them). The emphasis is on Jesus revealing Himself to us (and revealing Himself in us and revealing Himself through us). That's glorious because it means that all we have to do is receive and release. The Spirit is speaking. All we have to do is listen. Jesus stands at the door and knocks, all we have to do is answer. And watch this: The door is our heart. Jesus is the door. He doesn't just live in our hearts, He has given us His heart! That's something that's so important to me that we understand--we have this idea where we think we have to give our hearts, or our lives, or whatever, to Jesus. When in fact we don't have anything to give Him. We can't even give Him our lives. We were dead in our trespasses and sins. We didn't have a life to give Him. He gave us HIS life and brought us out of death into that everlasting, eternal, abundant, Resurrection Life! That's what it means to know it all. Let me say it like this, "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we loev the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death" (1 John 3:14). We KNOW that we are alive because we love one another. Because we CAN love one another. Because we have been equipped and empowered TO love one another. And that love that we have for one another, that life that we share with one another, comes directly from the Father's love for us. It is His love in us that comes out of us. It is the Father revealing His love for us that leads and guides us into the truth that He loves us. We have faith in God because He has proven Himself (and continues to prove Himself) faithful to us. He doesn't require anything that He doesn't first provide. The New Commandment is love one another AS Jesus loves us. So first He loves us, and then we love one another. It all flows from the source. All good and perfect gifts come down from the Father of lights. And we are His Son. We are the light (of the world) that He is the Father of. And all good and perfect gifts--all Spiritual blessings, all things that pertain to life and godliness, all things--have been given into our hand. The hand--or the five fold ministry--is used to perfect the saints. Used to edify each other. To build one another up. To love one another. That's what it's all about. It's all about love. We know it all because we know love. Because we are loved. Because we ARE love. That's what we know. And as we begin to understand what we know... that's when it all begins to manifest. That's when we begin to share what we've got. That's when we begin to love with the love that we are loved with!