The Tree part 3
You are what you eat. I say it all the time. Your diet defines you. What you allow inside is what will come out. Because no matter what it is... it's too big and too strong to stay inside. We all live from the inside out. Whether we realize it or not. So the key is to know what's inside. To be purposeful. To fill ourselves to overflowing with what our heavenly Father has already filled us with. Eating from the Tree of Life, is my point. That's what I'm getting at. Eating the fruit of the Spirit. Which is love. Feasting on the bread and wine. The living water and the Lamb. When we eat those things--when we ingest them and internalize them--that's when we know and believe the love of God. That's when we really have something to give. And when we give it... we experience it. Because that's what love is; love is giving. If you want to feel love... love somebody. Give what you've got. Let what's inside come out by filling yourself to overflowing with it. Let God love you and love Him back by loving the people you come into contact with. Learn how to love by learning how you are loved. By learning how God loves you. Let Him love you. That's step one. Receiving. And then, once you've received, you can release what you've received. You can breathe it in and breathe it out. And when you understand this progression from two trees in the garden of Eden to only one tree (the Tree of Life) in the true paradise of God... it makes things so much more simple. You don't have to swing from branch to branch, weighing your good against your evil. You don't have to try to turn over a new leaf and try to be someone you're not. You can simply focus on the only fruit left. Which, again, is love. You can stop trying to turn over a new leaf and you can use the leaves of the Tree of Life for the healing of the nations! It's such a vital mindset shift. Stop weighing your actions and just hoping you have more good than evil. Stop pulling flower petals and hoping it lands on "God loves me" instead of "He loves me not." Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Nothing. So we don't need to stress about that or worry about that. We can cast our cares on Him because we know He cares for us. We can trust in Him because He has continually proved Himself trustworthy. He did the heavy lifting to get us to where we needed to be. Where He WANTED us to be. God warned man not to eat of the tree of death, telling us that only death could come from it. And then when man was naked and ashamed... God covered us--with Himself. HE cursed the fig tree because it couldn't bear fruit. HE did what we couldn't do. Brought us out of death and into life. And not just any life but HIS abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love! If you want to experience life, doesn't it make sense to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life? I'm telling you, you are what you eat. What you see is what you be. What you focus on is what fills your life. What you magnify is what manifests in you life. So set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Let God take care of you, and then take care of others because you are taken care of. Receive it and release it!