The Conclusion part 5
The conclusion sums it all up. You take it all in and you make it concise. You give it a bottom line. You pull out what is most important. The conclusion is love. Fear God--revere Him in awe, because His love is so awesome--and obey His commandment--the New Commandment for the New Man, to love one another as Jesus loves us. That's what it's all about. You can literally do whatever you want. Nobody can stop you. But when you know what you REALLY want--to be loved, and accepted--then you can write a different story. And when you know WHERE that love and acceptance comes from you can stop looking for love in all the wrong places. You can go straight to the source. Instead of trying everything under the sun--and finding out that it's all vanity--you can draw from the SON. From the heart. From deep inside. It really is like the Wizard of Oz. Everything we're looking for is what has already been freely given. That's why the good fight of faith is laying hold of eternal life. Not getting it, not earning it, but receiving it. Receiving from God is so vitally important. Because it's not necessarily the truth that sets you free as much as it's the truth you KNOW that sets you free. If you know and believe that you've been given a gift... that's when you can enjoy it. That's when you can experience it. That's when the truth becomes true for you. And that's when you understand the story. Because you know the conclusion. God wrote the end from the beginning. It is finished, and it has been from the foundation of the world. We don't need a move of God. God already moved. We need a revelation of Jesus so that we can understand the move of God. We don't need anything from Daddy--what's His is ours. We simply need to know what we've got and we need to start using what we've got. Sharing what we've got. Because if the conclusion is love the conclusion is GIVING and not GETTING. Receiving and RELEASING. Love is giving. For God so loved the world He GAVE His only begotten Son. Jesus didn't just give His life for us, He gave His life TO us. And now we can partake of the Divine Nature. Now--through the Holy Spirit, our love receptor--we can obey the New Commandment. We can let God love us, and let the love fill us to overflowing. And when we know and believe that we ARE loved... we CAN love. You can't give what you don't have, and you can only give what you do have. Jesus told us to love one another AS HE LOVES US. The love comes from the source. From the God who is love. He loves us and we love Him back by loving each other. Not because we're afraid He'll "get us" if we don't, but because what we have is too good to keep to ourselves. A life filled (to overflowing) with love is an abundant life. It's a life worth living. And, bottom line, that's what life is for. Life is for living. We get so mixed up sometimes trying to make life be what the world says it's "supposed to be." But true life, real life, eternal, everlasting, abundant, Resurrection Life, is all about love. Being loved by God and loving others with that same love. That's what it's all about. That's what I've found. That's my conclusion.