Look and Live part 2
What you magnify is what will manifest in your life. What you see is what you be. What you believe is what you experience. Again, with the understanding that you can't just "believe" whatever you want. Or, more accurately, wish and dream and hope for whatever you want. "Believing" you have a million dollars won't make it so. There are two choices: 1. The lie of the world. The same lie that the serpent hissed into Eve's ear way back in the misty garden of Eden that says you have to do in order to be. We don't do in order to be. We do BECAUSE we be. We don't run around (like a chicken with its head cut off) trying to get something we haven't got. No, we give what we have got by knowing and believing that we've got it. By hearing it. By seeing it. You can't believe something you don't know. That's the Divine Order of things; "This things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God" (1 John 5:13). That you may know... and believe. Faith comes from hearing. You have to hear God saying, "I love you," before you can believe that He loves you. You have to see it to believe it. And I'm going to use one of my favorite (I know, I know) verses to illustrate this truth. 1 John 3:2, "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." And that's the thing. NOW we are the Son(s) of God. Right now. Currently. Not because of anything that we've ever done, or could ever do. But until you see yourself (and others) that way... Look. The truth is the truth whether you know it or not. Whether you believe it or not. But while the truth HAS set us free and made us free... its only when we know and believe the truth that we EXPERIENCE that freedom. Its the truth you know that you can believe. And its the truth you believe that manifests in your life. Number 1 was the lie of the world. That's one choice. The other choice, the better choice, the more excellent way, is the report of the Lord. The ultimate truth of the universe. God is love and He loves you. The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hands. When He appears... when LOVE appears... we shall be like Him. Because we will know (and believe) that we are loved. We will stop trying to get something we think we haven't got. We will stop trying to do in order to be. We will BE able to rest in the loving arms of our heavenly Father and we will BE able to let what's inside come out. Not by forcing it out. Or faking it 'til we make it. But by letting it flow, naturally, by filling ourselves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. By letting God love the hell out of us, and loving each other with that same love. If you magnify love in your life--one more time, by knowing and believing that God is love and He loves you--love will manifest in your life. You will be able to experience the gift you've been given by giving it away. By sharing it. If you look at Jesus, you see love. And living is loving. Loving is living. So look... and live!