Understanding part 4
You can't love something you don't accept. And you can't accept something you don't understand. If we can stop looking AT each other and look IN each other we can connect on that love level. The deep calls out to the deep. We are all one body. The body of Christ. We are, in a very real sense, all the same. Because we're all controlled by love. Either we don't know we have it and we're trying to get it, or we know (and believe) that we have it and we share it with everyone around us. No matter who they are or what they're doing. Because we're not judging, we're EXECUTING righteous judgment. We're not condemning, we're affirming. Look at 1 John 5:20, "And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life." To me, this is the definition of understanding. We have an unction from the Holy One and we know all things. We know the ultimate truth of the universe--that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand. We know Daddy loves us. But there's a step that goes further than knowing. UNDERSTANDING. Knowing (head knowledge) vs understanding (heart knowledge). And here's the key: We don't NEED understanding. In the Old Testament we were told to get understanding with all our getting. In the New Testament the Son of God IS come and HATH given us an understanding. Everything we need... we have. The work is done. It is finished. And look at WHY we were given this understanding--so that we may KNOW him that is true. So that we may, "...know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that (we) might be filled with all the fulness of God" (Ephesians 3:19). So that we might RECEIVE (and release) the truth that we know. The love that we have. The love that we ARE. Because the truth is, we're in Him. Just as He's in us. And that's what eternal life is. Not trying to live Jesus' life--nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus--but letting Him live His own life in and through and as us. Living in the context of the unconditional Father/Son relationship. Knowing the Father and the One whom He sent. Not living "for" God, as if He's our boss, and by definition telling us what to do or else, but living BY Him. Living by His love. Which is what living is. Life is for living. And to live is to love. To love is to live. He who doesn't love his brother abides in death. He who judges his brother, because he is only looking at the surface and doesn't understand what's going on inside, rejects his brother. Love isn't rejection. It's connection. It's acceptance. Not merely tolerating others but embracing them. Celebrating them. Laying your life down for them. Not because they "deserve" it... but because you're so full of it that it overflows naturally. Love is too big to be contained. That's why God--who IS love--created us in the first place: so that He would have more objects of love. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So in the beginning there was the Father/Son bond of love. That's what the Word is. The Word is Jesus. The Word is love. But love is so much bigger than we think it is. So God created the heaven and earth. The mind and the body. YOU. Me. Us. He wanted to express Himself, so He made something dark and void and without form and then spoke the Word. He said let there be light. Which brings me to Psalm 119:130, "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." Understanding comes from the heart. We hear with the ear and understand with the heart. We hear the WORD. Love. The heart loves because the heart understands love. God gave love to us when He gave Himself to us. When He gave His life for us, and gave His life to us. And now we receive and release. We fill ourselves with the fulness. We share what we've got because it's too good to keep to ourselves!