The Secret part 2
The Holy Spirit whispers, in a still small voice, from inside of us. It is the cry of our heart. The cry of Father God's heart beating with love in our chests. And He whispers the secret of life: Daddy loves you. He takes you by the hand and leads and guides you into all truth. Because He IS life... and He IS love. To live is to love and to love is to live. Jesus said it like this, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life" (John 5:24). And then John the Revelator picked up on it and said it like this, "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death" (1 John 3:14). No love = death. KNOW love = life. It's that simple. See, we always want to make things heaven and hell issues... we're so concerned about what happens when we die... but Jesus came that we might HAVE life and have it more abundantly. We don't seem to understand that before the cross we WERE DEAD in our trespasses and sins. Jesus wasn't concerned about "afterlife" once (if) our mortal bodies expired. He was concerned with us experiencing eternal, everlasting, abundant, Resurrection Life RIGHT NOW. And I guess since "hell" is a state of death and "heaven" is a state of life, as long as you understand what you're talking about it IS a heaven and hell issue. But look at what John said, "...He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." ABIDETH in death. Not, "Love your brother or you will die." We were already dead. Adam ate from the tree of death, and on that day he surely died. That's where we already were. And then, at the appointed time, Jesus came and rescued us. He came and saved us. (Not from an eternal punishment called hell, but from the state of spiritual death called hell!) He came and saved us from our sins. From our unbelief. From believing that we had to do in order to be. From believing that we had to earn Daddy's love. And He saved us from our unbelief by giving us something to believe in. By giving us HIMSELF to believe in. By giving us LOVE to believe in. By giving us His Spirit (the love receptor) so that we could receive the love that was always present. Jesus--the light of the world--shined in our hearts so that we could see what was always true. So that we would know the secret. Remember our key verse for this Rant series: "The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant" (Psalm 25:14). He SHOWED us the New Covenant. He SHOWED us His love. He brought us out of the death (that we were already in) by drawing us into Himself. By drawing us into HIS life, and by living HIS life in and through and as us. That's the secret. That's what life is all about. It's not about earning things from an angry taskmaster. And it's not about building your own kingdom. It's about being loved by the Father--by the God who IS love--and loving each other with that same love. That's what life is all about; it's all about love. The secret is out!