Truth part 5
Truth is higher than fact. That's where I want to end this Rant series. Because the facts of the matter are what things look like. But we walk by faith, not by sight. And the truth of the matter is... God is love, and He loves you. God is love, and He loves THROUGH you. So no matter how bad it looks, that is the Rock that we stand on. God's love. The selfless, sacrifical love that IS God. God gave us everything He had and everything He is on the cross. Jesus didn't just give His life FOR us, He gave His life TO us. He literally laid His life down for us. That's the truth of the matter. The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand. Our heavenly Father wanted the best for us, so He gave the best TO us. He gave HIMSELF to us. His name. His nature. His Spirit. His life. The abundant, everlating, eternal, Resurrection Life of love. A life of being loved, and loving others with that same love. That's what the Holy Spirit is all about--He is the Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The truth of who we really are; God's beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. The truth of who God really is; a loving heavenly Father that would literally rather die than be without us. So no matter how bleak things look... there IS a light at the end of the tunnel. The light of the world. The light that Jesus is. The light that WE are. On the cross the light shined ON us, so that we could see clearly. See God clearly. See ourselves clearly. See LOVE clearly. Because that's the truth... that's who God is. That's who we are. He is love. And as He is, so are we in this world. WE are love. The living embodiment of love. The Word made flesh. Jesus lives in us--God in the flesh, love in a body... God in OUR flesh, love in OUR body--and He lives THROUGH us. The light shined ON us, and now it shines OUT of us! It shines THROUGH us. LOVE shines through us. Because loves lives within us. A love that is too big, and too good, to keep to ourselves. A love that is life changing. Both for us, as we let God love us (usually through other people), and for those we come into contact with as we love them. I see it all day every day, man. People are DESPERATE for love. But we don't think we can have it. We look at the "facts" and we think we don't deserve it. Like the carrot and the stick, its always just out of reach. Like the man under the Law there's always one thing we lack. And as long as we believe that, we'll always be chasing out. Looking for an outside source of love when it comes from within. And I know I just said God usually loves us through other people. But that's the deep calling out to the deep. That's the light in me recognizing the light in you. That's love feeding on love and growing and growing into an out of control Holy Ghost wildfire. An unstoppable fire that consumes everything in its (HIS) path except itself (Himself). A love that, as Logan and I always say, "Can't stop won't stop." So even when--especially when--the facts look bleak... when it looks dark... that's when the light can shine the brightest. That's when the truth about God's love steps in and reveals everything to be in Divine Order. The truth that we don't need love. We have love. We ARE love. Because we are loved!