Ultimate Truth part 2
God is love and He loves you. That's it, man. That's what I've endeavoured to build my whole ministry on. My whole LIFE. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. They aren't just connected, they are the same thing. A life of love is the only life worth living. Living is the only way to truly live. And I say "truly live" because knowing the truth is HOW we live. Knowing that God is love and He loves you (the ultimate truth of the universe) is what equips and empowers us to love. Receiving and releasing God's love. That's the abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of God. And we experience that life by letting Him live His own life in us, and through us, and as us. Because no one can live Jesus' life except Jesus. We can't follow in His foot steps. That's a religious trap. Trying to act a certain way. Do a certain thing. That's not liberty. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Look at John 14:12, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." Now, listen, I have a beard and my hair is getting pretty long. I prefer sandals. Even when there's snow on the ground. But I'm not trying to recreate Jesus' earthly works. I'm not trying to turn water into wine. I don't even drink. I think in this case we need to understand what Jesus' works were. And, in reality, they were acts of kindness. They were charity--which is love in action. Jesus showed us the Father. God is love. Jesus showed us what God looks like. By loving us. And I'm not trying to compare what I've done with what the earthly Jesus did--and I'm not trying to toot my own horn--but I've done some things in my life that have rocked peoples' worlds. In a good way. In a GOD way. In a love way. Giving someone something that they thought they could never have and watching them literally shake with joy and gratitude. Does that compare to bringing someone back from the dead? Probably not. But while its not our job to change the world, loving someone WILL change THEIR world. So its not about recreating anything. Its about giving what you've got to the people in your path. Even Paul, who walked past someone and healed them with his shadow. To me that's a picture of just loving the people you come into contact with. He didn't search that guy out, and that guy didn't search him out. They met, almost randomly, and what was inside Paul came out, and love rocked that guy's world. But you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. So you have to know what you do have. In knowing, in believing, we can give what we've got. We can let the love that's inside come out. The ultimate truth of the universe is that God is love and He loves you. And because of that love we can love Him back by loving each other. God and people. Loving God and loving people. Loving God BY loving people. That's it, man. That's what its all about. Knowing the truth. Believing the truth. And letting the truth (that has already set you free and made you free) set you free and make you free!