Pure part 4
It's just like love to feed on itself. When our heart is pure--when we have nothing different than love in our hearts--then we can fill ourselves with the fulness of God. And when we fill ourselves with the fullness (of what we've already been filled with) then it manifests in our lives. So basically, in order to see God--in order to see LOVE--we have let God--let LOVE--see us. We fill ourselves with what's inside us and it overflows out of us. When you see it, you be it, but you can't see it until you be it. If that makes any sense. It's about receiving it and releasing it--but the most real way to receive it is to release it. Because you can't give what you don't have. Faking it until you make it doesn't work. But if you "step out in faith" (and remember, we walk by faith and not by natural sight) and love somebody, that means that you HAVE received it. If you give somebody love, it means you believe (at least on some level) that you ARE loved. And the more you release it, the more you receive it. The more you EXPERIENCE it. A pure heart is what allows you to see God. See Him in yourself, and in your surroundings, and in each other. Having a heart that's full to overflowing with love is what allows that love--that IS inside you--to come out of you. Where we get in trouble is when we start dealing with that false sense of duality. When we start judging things according to "good and evil" or "darkness and light." God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all. He's in you so how could there be any darkness in YOU at all? There can't be. When the light shined--and it shined way back in the beginning when God said, "Let there be light" and then it shined in full manifestation on the cross at Calvalry--when the light shined the darkness fled. We were translated OUT of the power of darkness and into the Kingdom of God's dear Son. We were transformed. We were CONFORMED into His image. We were given a circumcision made without hands and the flesh (of human effort) was cut away from our hearts... revealing God's heart deep inside us! All of the surface stuff, all of the external stuff (the Law, and the demands of behaving a certain way), was cut away. The consuming fire that is love--that is God--consumed everything that wasn't Himself and left only a pure, clean heart. A heart that beats with love, love, and only love. He did the work so that we could finally have the desire of our hearts--by delighting ourselves in Him. He took the veil and tore it in half from top to bottom--giving us complete and total free access to Himself. He cleaned us, washed us, and presented us to Himself as a bride without spot, wrinkle, or any such thing--pure. He emptied us of everything else and filled us with Himself. He did it all so we could get it all. The "all" that He did was the cross. And the "all" that we got... was Him. He took up abode in us. He dwells in us. He lives in us. That means LOVE dwells in us. We dwell in love when we see Him dwelling in us. And, again, when we see it... we be it. When we know and believe that our hearts are pure--filled with nothiing but undefiled love--that's when what's inside us flows out of us like a river of living water. That's when our true identity--Jesus, God in the flesh, love in a body--manifests and we can stop trying to be someone else and just be who we really are!