The Life part 5
Jesus--God in the flesh, love in a body--is the Life of God. And He lives in us. LIFE lives in us. LOVE lives in us. That is how we are able to experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God--by letting HIM live it in us, and through us, and as us. That's the Way to love (it is inside us) and that is the Truth about love (God is love and He loves you). And it all manifests in the person of Jesus. God in YOUR flesh. Love in YOUR body. Because Jesus is our true identity. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. As He is, so are we in this world. So what I want to say to end this Rant series (and the kind of uber series about the Way, the Truth, and the Life) is: Live your best life. Stop trying to be someone you're not in order to try (unsuccessfully) to get something you think you haven't got. Jesus did it all so you could get it all. And now you have it all. We have been blessed with all Spiritual blessings. We have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. We have not lack because our God has no lack... and He has given all things into our hands. So we can stop chasing... and we can be still and know that HE is God. Know that God is love. Know that God loves us. And with that knowledge, we can love Him back by loving each other. We can give what we've got because we know what we've got. What's inside WILL come out. When you know and believe that its in there. Your belief dictates your actions. If you believe you're a dirty rotten sinner and God is mad at you, you'll run from Him. If you believe you are His beloved Son in whom He is well pleased, you'll run TO Him. You'll stop trying to control everything and you'll let Him live His own life in you, and through you, and as you. Obedience is a trust issue. If you trust God, you'll let Him do what He wants to do. And here's the best part: What He wants to do--the ONLY thing He wants to do--is love. Because He IS love. He wants to live. Because living is loving. Loving is living. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. And in us He lives, and moves, and has His being. We are God's expression on this earth. We are LOVE'S expression. When we act in love the Word is made flesh. Charity--love in action. That's what truly living is. That's what Jesus came to show us. He didn't come to save us from an angry God, because God was never mad at us. He has always been mad ABOUT us. Head over heels in love with us. But we didn't know it, or believe it. So He gave us His only begotten Son. He gave us Himself. His Spirit. The Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of Truth, the love receptor. See, the cross didn't change us into something God could love. He always has and always will love us. The cross changed us into something that could RECEIVE His love. Receive it and release it. Receive it BY releasing it. Release it by receiving it. That's what the Life is. Being loved by God and loving others with that same love. That's the New Commandment, for the New Man. That's what its all about. Jesus didn't come to give us a religion. Or an afterlife. He came that we might have life, and that more abundantly. He came to show us how to love, by showing us how we are loved. He filled us up with His love--with Himself--and now we can let that love out by filling ourselves to overflowing with what we've already been filled with. We can live... because we can love. Because we ARE loved. Because we are love!