The Guide part 5
The Holy Spirit is our guide. Without Him, we can't understand Spiritual things. Without the Holy Spirit--our love receptor--we can't understand love. We can't understand what it means to BE loved, or what it means TO love. And that's why we are on a never-ending, everlasting, eternal, life-long journey into the heart of the matter. Love is simple--love is giving, love is living--but it is vast. It never ends and it never fails. So, in a sense, it's not the destination. We have already arrived at the destination. We are IN the Kingdom of God (because the Kingdom of God is within us) and we ARE the Kingdom of God. The journey isn't GETTING to the Kingdom. The journey is EXPLORING the Kingdom. That's the revelation I had about Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." We're not seeking the Kingdom in order to get it--as if we don't have it. We're seeking the Kingdom to see what we already have! And all these things are "added" to us when we find out--just like the characters in the Wizard of Oz--that we had what we were looking for all along! Our guide shows us where we are, and He shows us how we got there. He testifies of our true identity by testifying of Jesus. He is the Spirit of truth and He whispers the ultimate truth of the universe in a still small voice. The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand. Daddy loves you. Daddy loves you. Daddy loves you. You have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly Christ. You have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. Jesus did it all so you could get it all. And now that you HAVE it all... seek it. Explore it. Enjoy it. Share it. Test the height and the length and the depth and the breadth of His love by loving others as much and as hard as you can. Stop using love as a means of trying to get something, and realize that if you have everything you need--and you do, because you have Jesus--you can share what you have. You can give it away without fear of losing it. Because it's a river of living water springing out of you. A well that will never--CAN NEVER--run dry. Those who are led by the Spirit are the Son(s) of God. Because those who are led by the Spirit are led into their true identity which IS the Son of God! Because those who are led by the Spirit are led into love. The Spirit says, "Come up hither," and it empowers us to RISE in love. To love one another with a pure love that doesn't expect, or need, anything. A love without motivation because love IS the motivation. Doing for others NOT because we want them to do for us... but simply because we love them. Remember, love is simple. Even the greatest love a man can have is simple--laying down his life for his friends. But as simple as it is it's so vast. So powerful. Love is the solution, no matter what the problem is. Love is the most basic--and powerful--desire of mankind. It's what everybody wants. What everybody needs. And it's what we've got. It's who we are. So when we lay down our lives for one another, we give them the very thing that they need. When we love one another we set flame to a Holy Ghost wildfire that consumes everything in it's path and leaves only itself. Love feeds on love, and it grows. The more you give, the more you seemingly have. The more you EXPERIENCE.