Settled part 5
When you're settled, you're at rest. When you're planted on the rock you cannot be shaken. When you're moving and flowing and living in, and through, and because of, love you can truly experience the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God. Its all about love. God filled us with His love. And now we can fill ourselves to overflowing with the love that we've already been filled with. We don't have to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, looking for love in all the wrong places. We can go to the source. We can look inside. We can let what's inside come out. By knowing and believing that its in there. What's inside WILL come out. Its has to. Or, as I always say, what you believe is inside will come out. So its vitally important that we get that issue--the love issue--settled. That we really truly let God love us. That's the biggest difference Adam (the son of God) and Jesus (the beloved Son of God). Jesus knew who He was, and knew who His Father was. He let Himself be loved by God. Beloved. Be loved. Whereas Adam hid from the presence of God. He thought God was mad at Him and ran from God instead of running to Him. That's what you do when you're unsettled: Fight or flight. I believe that when someone is pushed they do one of two things. 1. Fall over. 2. Push back. And I don't think either one of those things is what we're really after. We shouldn't put people in that position. We shouldn't want them to either fall over or push back. We should want people to succeed. We should edify people. But, like I always say, you can't give what you don't have. If you're unsettled, you surely can't settle anybody else. A peacemaker can't make peace unless he has peace. You can't make something from nothing. Even God (who is love) can't make something from nothing. Everything that was made was made through Jesus. The Word of God. Love. He created us from love in order for us to be loved. Did I already say its all about love? Because it is. That's what we need to settle in our spirits more than anything else. We need to have clear hearts and minds. Open hearts. Letting love in and out. Letting the love that IS in... out. The mind of Christ. Thinking the thoughts of God. Which, by the way, is "I love you." That's what He thinks. That's what He's about. He settled it in the very beginning when the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world. He settled it in fulness on the cross when He gave His life for us and as us. And now we can settle it. Now we can see the sacrifice that was made and believe that there is nothing--NOTHING--that our heavenly Father wouldn't do for us. When we were yet sinners (before the cross) He died for us. Gave us everything. Simply because He loves us and wanted us to have it. He wanted the best for us, so He gave the best to us. He settled the issue with the greatest expression of love anyone can give. And now we have something to believe in. Now we CAN know it and believe it. Now we CAN receive it and release it. So listen to that still, small voice that's deep inside. That voice that says, with every beat of God's heart in our chests, "I love you, I love you, I love you." And let that love flow out of you and into everybody you come into contact with!