Love is only inflexible in the point of it (HIM) never stopping. Otherwise, love will bend over backwards for literally anybody. When Jesus was lifted up on the cross He drew ALL men into Himself. He died for the WORLD. And His commandment was for US to love EACH OTHER in that same way. To let God love us, and to love each other with that same love. The New Commandment for the New Man. The FLEXIBLE New Man. The One who gives everything He has and everything He is to His fellow man. The One who lays down His life for His friends. (Capitalization on the "He" because the New Man is Jesus. We are Him because He is in us. There is no separation between God and man, because God lives IN man.) So all we really have to do is let God love us until we are filled to overflowing with what He has already filled us with: His love. And I think that's an appropriate place to end this Rant series. Because sometimes we are too rigid in what we think God is willing to love. That's called religion. Trying to fit into a box so that we can "earn" God's love. When, in fact, God's love is a gift. Freely given. Can't be earned. But must be received in order to be experienced. Must be released in order to be experienced. Knowing and believing God loves us--having faith in God (love)--is what equips and empowers us to love. And His love FOR us is unconditional. So, logically, if we are to love as we are loved, our love for each other must be unconditional. We have to be flexible enough to love each other no matter what... and we have to be flexible enough to believe that God loves US no matter what. I know that can be hard, because, for instance, I know ALL of the worst things that I've ever done. Because I was there when they happened. I was literally, physically doing them. And when I think about that stuff, I can very easily convince myself that I am hard to love. I can get sucked into the trap of "good vs evil" and I can pile up all my evil on one scale, and all of my good on the other, and I can talk myself out of what I've already been given. I can convince myself that I'm not worthy of love. And isn't it funny that the bad things we do always seem bigger than the good things we do? We can make ONE mistake, and it can haunt us. When, in truth, love doesn't keep a list of right and wrongs at all. God has already forgiven and forgotten all of your sins and trespasses. That happened when the Lamb of God took away the sin of the world. That happened when Jesus prayed to His Father to forgive us because we didn't know what we were doing. (Yes, I believe He was praying for those physically crucifying Him. But also for all of us who didn't know the glorious truth of His love, and were trying to earn it instead of recieving it.) I think the way to life is straight and narrow. But it can also be a long and winding road. A road with twists and turns along the way. Sometimes things don't go the way we think they should, and we need to be able to roll with the punches. Because God has our best interests at heart. What's that song? Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Sometimes what we think we want is not really what's best for us. And sometimes the hardest thing we can do is simply believe that we are worthy of God's love. But the truth is: We were CREATED BY LOVE TO BE LOVED. That's our purpose. That's what life is. And life can be messy, so we need to be flexible!

Sometimes the hardest things in life are the things that break the easiest. Because they aren't flexible. They are hard, and rigid, but not necessarily strong. Some of the strongest things are the ones that can bend but not break. The things that can take what's presented to them and accept it. Or, if not completely accept it, at least be ok with the differences between different people. I think that's the strongest thing about love: Love does not demand its (HIS) own way. You can be who you are (who you think you are) and God will love you anyway. LOVE will love you anyway. Because what else could love do? For love to not love it wouldn't be love. For GOD to not love He wouldn't be God. Love isn't just what God DOES, love is who God IS. And, again, He keeps no list of rights and wrongs. Hebrews 10:16-17 describes the New Covenant in this way: "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." And that always led me to the question of, "If God doesn't remember our sins, why do WE?" Why are we so rigid, and sin conscious? Why do we try to trap people in religous boxes that nobody really fits in? Why are so intent on "sending people to hell" when we could just love the hell out of them instead? (And if God doesn't keep track of our rights and wrongs, and doesn't remember our sins and iniquities, how would anyone "qualify" for this so called "hell" anyway? But I digress.) The point is, if you put expectations on people, they will inevitably let you down. The Law of Moses put the expectation of perfection on people. And ALL sinned and fell short. Because Adam, humanity's representative--before the cross--sinned and fell short of the glory of God. But then God GAVE us His glory. We couldn't earn it. But He wanted us to have it. So He gave it to us. When He gave HIMSELF to us. When He gave His Spirit to us. When He gave His only begotten Son to us. So that we could stop trying to live a certain way, and instead let Jesus live His own abudant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life in us, and through us, and as us. So that we could live a life of love by letting God love us and loving each other with that same love. Letting people be who they are and being flexible to STOP trying to change them into who WE think they should be, and just loving them no matter what. And, as always, I'm not saying you should put yourself or keep yourself in a bad situation. I think you should give it everything you are and everything you have. And at that point its either enough... or it isn't. And either way you've done what you can do. You don't have to subject yourself to torture, or abuse, in order to love someone. But you can't CHANGE people either. It goes both ways. People are who they are and they're going to do what they're going to do. You can either be rigid, and break. Or you can be flexible and bend. You can let people be who they, or you can drive yourself crazy trying to get them to be someone they're not. You can try to control people... or you can just love them!

The thing about rules is... rules create rule breakers. Strict parents create sneaky kids. And, as always, I'm not saying you should be ok with any and every thing. I'm simply saying its wiser to train up a child in the way he SHOULD go than to crush his spirit with all the things he's not allowed to do. If you tell someone not to do something, its like they immediately want to do that thing. Whether it was something they were interested in before you forbid it or not. Rebel without a clue, right? That's why religion is so hard to handle for most people. Look at Matthew 12:7 in the Message Bible, "If you had any idea what this Scripture meant--'I prefer a flexible heart to an inflexible ritual'--you wouldn't be nitpicking like this." God doesn't want religious robots. He wants a people so full of love that it comes out of us naturally. When Jesus was on the cross He nailed the Ten Commandments and the Law of Moses TO the cross because it was contrary to us. Against us. All the Law could do was point out what we were doing wrong without being able to help us do right. The Law demanded perfection, but couldn't produce perfection. We plain, straight, couldn't keep the Law. Because if you've broken part of it, you've broken all of it. And if you've had angry thoughts you've broken part of it. The point of the Law was not for us to keep it. The point of the Law was to show us that we CAN'T keep it. The Law was the school master that brought us to Christ. Because HE could--and did--keep it. He fulfilled the Law. Brought us OUT of that Old Covenant and INTO the New Covenant. Where our sins and transgressions are remembered no more. Where sin is no longer the issue, because it has been taken away. Where the heart has regained its position as the most important thing. We don't need to nitpick. Love keeps no record of right and wrong. He bears all things. He's flexible enough to let people be who they are. He doesn't demand His own way. He doesn't demand that people be someone they're not. He doesn't "send people to hell" because they mess up. He loves the hell OUT of people. Some of the best advice I've ever received regarding ministry sounded like this, "You can't make people DO anything. And you can't make people BELIEVE anything." So what I do is I simply listen to my heavenly Father--that still, small voice inside my heart--and I try to share what He is saying to me. Which, by the way, is love, love, and more love. God only has one Word. Jesus. Love. "Let there be light." So that we can see clearly. See HIM clearly. See LOVE clearly. And so that we can let love light the way. Oftentimes its a long and winding road, but if we're flexible we can help each other get there. At our own pace. I'm ok with people not having the same revelation I have. I'm ok not having the same revelation others have. Because all I can do with right now is share what I have right now. Some plant seeds, some water them, but God gets the harvest. I can't do everything. But I can GIVE everything I've got. I can love people without trying to change them. Without demanding something from them. Because love IS giving; its never about getting. Love can stretch, and move, and meet every need. Because its not strict and rigid. HE is flexible!

Love is flexible. Because love doesn't demand His own way. Love lets people be who they are... and loves them anyway. That's why love never fails. Because love endures. Love never fails because love never gives up. That's basically the only way in which love is not flexible. Other than not giving up, love is willing to do anything. Give everything He has and everything He is. But, and I've Ranted on this before, that does NOT mean you should put yourself, or keep yourself, in a bad situation. There are some people out there that you can't reach. Some people that don't "get" you. Some people that will never pick up what you're laying down. And that's ok. Because you are not called to fix every problem for everybody. You are called to let God love you, and to love others with that same love. Once you've done your best its either enough... or its not. And either way you've done what YOU can do. Some people plant, some people water... I don't think loving someone is ever a wasted effort. But my point for this Rant series is that you have to be flexible. Because you can't love everybody the same way. What's that book? The Five Languages of Love? Something like that. People express love differently and people receive love differently. One of the "problems" I have with the so-called golden rule is when we kind of get it a little bit twisted around and think that, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" means, "I did to them what I want them do to me... so why aren't they doing it to me?" Jesus wasn't saying we should be nice in order to get what we want. Kindness isn't kindness if you expect something because of it. And, like, if I want a Mountain Dew... giving someone a Mountain Dew isn't the way to go. They might not even LIKE Mountain Dew. The point is, put yourself in their shoes. See THEIR need and meet it. Because you would like someone to see YOUR need and meet it. But don't ever give in order to get. Love is never about getting. Because love IS giving. We already have everything we need. Even when it doesn't seem like it. There's a whole Kingdom economy that is available to us. We don't have to struggle and just barely get by by the skin of our teeth. We can live out of our abundance. We can receive and release the gift we've been given, and in that way EXPERIENCE the gift we've been given. Because the gift is eternal life. An abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life that IS a life of being loved and loving others. Sharing what we have by sharing who we are. But not expecting people to be anything they're not. You can't make love conditional. Because then its not love. NOTHING can separate us from the love of Christ. Which means nothing SHOULD separate us from each other--again, there are things we should not tolerate. There are situations we should not stay in. But we can still love people even if they hurt us. We can still choose the high road, if I can say it that way. We can let stuff roll off of us like water off a duck's back instead of getting mad at every little thing. We can be flexible. We can stop expecting people to be our idea of who they should be and we can let them be who they are. And we can love them no matter what. In the way that THEY need to be loved. Simply by knowing and believing that WE are loved. By receiving and releasing the love of God that fills us to overflowing. We can simply let it out. Naturally. Flexibly!

I think sometimes we get our minds so fixed on something that we make issues more important than people. And if you've followed my ministry for any length of time you probably know that I think there are only two truly important things in the universe: God, and people. Love God, and love people. Love God BY loving people. And don't get me wrong, I know paying your bills is important. I know taking care of the earth is important. I'm not saying all of that. I'm simply saying that when it comes to disagreements with people I'd rather be kind than "right." And, again, don't get me wrong, there are some things we should not tolerate. There are some things we should stand up against. But when I was Ranting about how important it is that you believe right--because what you do flows from what you believe--I was also thinking about how UNIMPORTANT it is for me to CONVINCE you to believe that I'M saying is right. That has never been the thrust of my ministry. If you've found something that works for you... great. My "doctrine" doesn't need to believe ANYTHING. I think a lot of times we settle for less than what's available to us, and I think that's a shame, but I'm flexible. I don't need you to agree with me in order for me to love you. Which I think Paul was kind of saying in 1 Corinthians 9:22, "To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." He was talking about meeting people where they're at. Not expecting them to be somewhere they're not. I know, for a fact, that I'm not for everybody. It took me YEARS to figure out some of the stuff I preach and Rant about. So if you don't "get it," that's ok. I'm cool with that. I don't think I ever have, and I don't think I ever will, try to convince somebody that I'm right and they're wrong. I generally excuse myself from anything close to religious arguments. Because I don't think arguing helps matters. Logan knows that I'm not going to argue with him about ANYTHING. It's just not how I roll. Like I said, I try to be flexible. Some things are a hard no for me. And I think that's ok. Because some things are a hard no for you. We all have things we feel passionate about. I guess what I'm trying to say is something one of the pastors at my old church always said: "Let's major on the majors and minor on the minors." Let's find things we CAN agree on, instead of fighting about the things we can't agree on. I think that's much more peaceful. And we know that blessed are the peacemakers, right? My point, that I'm trying to make in my usual wandering around hoping it all comes together way, is that LOVE is flexible. I don't want to quote the whole love chapter here, but I'll take 1 Corinthians 13:7 as my main verse for today: Talking about charity (which is love in action), "Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." Love never fails because love endures. Love doesn't demand His own way. Love takes what is presented to Him and loves anyway. He is flexible. We have--through the traditions of men--made the "gospel" very strict and rigid. But the simple truth of the matter is... God is love. And He loves you. Which means you can love Him. By loving people. We can let people be who they are and still love them no matter what. We can be flexible and help people learn and grow at THEIR pace. We can live a life of love that doesn't fit in a box!

According to your faith, so it shall be unto you. Jesus said that when He was healing someone's eyes. Because that's what faith is all about; its not believing in order to get something to happen. That's not faith. That's hope. It's knowing that something HAS happened. When Jesus said, "Have faith in God" He wasn't telling us to try to get God to do something. He was telling us that we CAN trust God because of everything He has done for us. Including the cross, even though at that time it hadn't physically happened yet. Because the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world. Before there was ever a sinner, there was a Savior. And when Jesus said, "Have faith in God" He was also saying, "Have faith in love." Because God IS love. And, again, this does not mean HOPE for love. Faith, hope, and love are all great things. But they are not necessarily the SAME thing. I think we mix them up quite a bit, but its very important to understand that hope deferred makes the heart sick. If we spend all of our "faith" in the hopes of getting something we haven't got, then we will probably get frustrated and think that our faith "doesn't work." When really, "...What is important is faith expressing itself in love" (Galatians 5:6 NLT). Faith works by love. Faith works through love. Because we have faith IN love. That's why knowing and believing you are loved is so important. That's why God gave us His Holy Spirit--the love receptor. Because God always has and always will love us. The problem is that we, as humanity, swallowed the lie that said we have to do in order to be. The lie that says we have to earn our heavenly Father's love. That's the sin (or unbelief) that Jesus saved us from. That's the sin of the world that Jesus took away. He took away unbelief. By giving us something (someONE, Himself, love) to believe in. He equipped and empowered us to make the right choice. To choose life. To love one another with the love that we are loved with. Because we know and believe that we ARE loved. We have faith in love, because God first loved us. Because He showed us His love by giving His life for us, and giving His life to us. He brought us out of death and into life, by proving His love for us, and proving His love to us. By laying His life down for us, so that He could pick His life (and us) back up. So that we could experience His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us. So that we could have something excellent to believe in. And in believing, let it be unto us. Instead of looking for love in all the wrong places, we can receive it and release it. We can give what we've got instead of trying to get something we think we haven't got. We can enjoy the life we were created to have--one of living and loving. Faith works by love. Our hope--that someday we might be loved--has come to light. We don't have to keep waiting for something. We don't have to keep hoping for something. The Bible even talks about an end of faith. Where we KNOW with a knowledge that passes knowledge (not head knowledge, but heart knowledge) that we are loved. And then we let what's inside come out. Naturally. Simply by knowing and believing that it (HE, LOVE) is in there!

You have the power to choose. You can accept what the world is screaming in your face, and in a sense serve the god known as mammon... or you can believe what your heavenly Father says about you in the still, small voice, and "serve" Him by letting Him live His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life of love in you, and through you, and as you. You can kill yourself working for a living... or you can rest in the loving arms of the One who has finished the work. And what it all comes down to, is love. Because that's the work that Jesus finished. When John writes about perfect love He is writing about what happened on the cross. Jesus said that there is no greater expression of love that a man can have than to lay his life down for his friends. That's what the cross was. It wasn't Jesus saving us from God. God was never mad at us. He was mad ABOUT us. Crazy, head over heels in love with us. The cross was about Jesus taking away the sin of the world so that we would no longer struggle with sin. And He took away the sin (unbelief) of the world by giving us something (someONE, Himself, LOVE) to believe in. By giving us the truth He empowered us to ignore the lie. He equipped and empowered us to make the right chioce. To choose life. To choose love. To believe the gospel--that God is love, and that He loves you. That's why Jesus came to earth: To show us the Father. And He showed us the Father by wrapping Himself in human flesh. By showing us love. And He showed us love... by loving us. By feeding us, and healing us. God is one person loving another person. We love God by loving each other, because He first loved us. We show God to one another by showing love to one another. Not by threating people with an eternal fiery hell... but by loving the hell out of people! If you believe you're "going to hell" you act accordingly. Because everything you do flows from what you believe. If you believe you are not worthy of love you act accordingly. You look for love in all the wrong places. You settle for whatever comes along, because you think its the best you can hope for. Even though you are secretly hoping for more. The good news is there IS more. A more excellent way. Exceeding abundantly more than you could ask or even think! So don't settle. Never ever settle. What the world has to offer isn't good enough. I guess the phrase, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade" is ok. Because making the best of what you've got is wise. But I like this one better: "If life gives you lemons... throw them at people!" And I like THIS one even better than that: "If life gives you lemons... stop taking what the world has to offer and start living out of the unlimited resources of the Kingdom!" There is so much that's available to us. We have been blessed with all Spiritual blessings. We have been given all things that pertain to life and godliness. We have been given the gift of God. Now we simply need to receive it and release it. Through the Holy Spirit--who is our love receptor. Now we CAN receive it and release it. We can experience the gift we've been given by knowing and believing we have it. If you have it, you can stop trying to get it. And if you have it, you can give it away. You can share it. You can love others as Jesus loved you--by laying your life down for them. By giving them everything you are and everything you have!

You can believe whatever you want. And you don't need my permission for that. I think you know by now that I'm perfectly ok NOT trying to convince anybody of, well, anything really. In fact, for the most part (aside from the Rants and videos), I keep my opinions to myself unless someone asks me. And even then, I'm certainly not going to argue with anybody. My point is... you can believe whatever you want. BUT what you believe defines your reality. So its kind of important that you (at the very least) KNOW what you believe. And WHY you believe it. The tricky part about ministry is that nobody has it all. We all have pieces. And, as Jesus said in Mark 7:13, sometimes we, "[Make] the word of God of none effect through your tradition..." Like how you can make the Bible say anything. When all it really says is Jesus. Love. So when you're choosing what to believe--choosing who to serve--its best to make an informed decision. Faith comes from hearing. You can't use faith to try to make something happen. Faith is believing in what already happened. Knowing (and believing) the truth, and letting that truth set you free and make you free. Hearing the good news of the Gospel--that we HAVE been reconciled to God... that God is love and He loves you--and then sharing that good news. Receiving it and releasing it. Experiencing the gift of God that we have already been given by giving it away. By sharing it. Knowing and believing that we are loved... and then loving each other with that same love. Because faith without works is dead. If all you do is hear the good news and then don't do anything with it... well... at that point it hasn't really done anybody much good. Because even the idea that, "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so" is a good idea. But we need to get past head knowledge and into heart knowledge. Past "knowing" something and into KNOWING it. In an experiential way. A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. When you know the truth its easy to ignore the lie. When you know who you are you never have to try to be someone you're not. I've heard it said like this: You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. You've got to have purpose in your life. Don't do things just to do them. Do things because they are in your heart to do them. According to your faith... so it is unto you. Everything you do flows from what you believe. If you believe you have to earn love you're going to spend your Three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) looking for love in all the wrong places. Settling for less than because you think its all you deserve. But if you believe that you ARE loved... that's when you can love. Because you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. You have to have love before you can give love. That's why 1 John 4:19 is so important: "We love him, because he first loved us." And we love Him BY loving each other. If you know the truth you can believe the truth. You can receive it and release it. You can live the life of love you were created to live. Not by trying to get something, but by giving away what you've got!

There are two tales being told at any given time. There's the stuff on the surface, that the world tries to convince you of by screaming it at the top of its lungs, and then there's something deeper. Something real, and true. And whichever one you believe, that's the one you will experience. If you buy into the rat race, you will spend your Three T's (Time, Talent, Treasure) trying to become king rat. And I guess that's ok for some people. Maybe. But there's a more excellent way. And His name is Jesus. His name is love. If you believe in love--if you guard your heart by keeping it OPEN to love--then you can experience the gift of God that you've already been given. You can enjoy the gift by sharing it. By giving it away. Because that's what love is; love is giving. So you FEEL love when you LOVE. When you give everything you have and everything you are. When you lay down your life for your friends. When you receive the love of God by releasing the love of God. When you fill yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with. According to your faith, so it shall be unto you. What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. What you feed is what will grow. What you believe is what you will experience--be it either what the world says, or what God says. You can't "believe" any old thing you want and expect it to happen. Because seeing is believing. Faith comes from hearing. And hearing from the Word (again, Jesus... love) of God. Look at the actual passage of the verse I just mentioned: "But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:16-17). What you hear is what you believe. Even, unfortunately, if its a lie. In fact, sometimes the lie is even easier to believe. Because its right there on the surface. Its easy to think badly of ourselves. And even easier to believe it when someone says the same things that we're already thinking. But, like I said, there's a more excellent way. Not looking AT the mirror and seeing all of our flaws, and mistakes, but looking INTO the mirror and seeing Jesus. One of my all-time favorite passages: "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord" (2 Corinthians 3:17-18). The Spirit of the Lord gives us freedom. Freedom FROM sin and death. Freedom TO live and love. Freedom to stop trying to be someone we're not and simply BE who we are! And we do that by looking IN the mirror. Seeing the glory of the Lord. Seeing Christ IN you, the hope of glory. Seeing the true you. The inner man. The hidden man of the heart. And by seeing Him... BEING Him. Letting the secret out. Christ REVEALED in you! In you, and through you, and as you. That's how we are changed FROM glory TO glory. We start at glory, deep inside the heart. And then what's inside comes out, when we know and believe that its in there. That HE'S in there. We have faith in God, and then God lives His abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life in us. And we experience it as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us. We believe that we are the righteousness of God in Christ, and then according to our faith... the truth manifests. What has always been true becomes true... for you!

I used this verse in my last Rant series but, believe it or not, I kind of got stuck on it. Because I think we need to really get some things straight. Some things about faith, and some things about what we have faith IN. So. Matthew 9:29 says, "Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you." And that's my thought for this Rant series: According to your faith. Another way to say it is, "What you see is what you be." What you magnify is what manifests in your life. But you can't just say things like, "I believe I'm a millionaire!" and then check your bank account and expect things to change. God can do things like that when and if He wants to, that's not the point. The point is, basically, you have two choices: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matthew 6:24). According to your faith, it will be until you. You can choose to believe the world's report, and try to win the rat race (which, at best, makes you king rat)... or you can believe the report of the Lord. The WORD of the Lord. Which is Jesus. Which is love. That's why Jesus said, "...Have faith in God" (Mark 11:22). Because what we believe--out of the two choices we have been given--is what is real to us. We can take what the world gives us... or we can operate out of the economy of the Kingdom of God. And we know that the Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. We are in the Kingdom right now because the Kingdom is in us right now. We are in heaven right now because heaven is in us right now. Heaven isn't just a place you go when (IF) you die. Heaven is where we all went when Jesus died! The days of heaven ON earth. IN earth as it is IN heaven. Heaven and earth met in the person of Jesus--the Son of God, and the son of man. He brought us that second option. He took away the sin (unbelief) of the world by giving us something--someONE, Himself, love--to believe in. He brought heaven to earth by establing the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of Love. And He gave us the keys to the Kingdom when He told us what (again, God... love) to have faith in. God is all-powerful, right? And God is love, right? Which means love is all-powerful. Right? So if you're going to put your faith in something, you might as well put it in the strongest thing there is. Love never fails. So if you believe in love... if you operate in love... you can't fail either. But that can be a slippery slope if we don't understand what love is trying to accomplish. Because a lot of people seem to use "love" as a way to get something. And that's wrong. Love is NEVER about getting. Because love IS giving. Giving everything you are and everything you have. Laying your life down for your friends, and destroying your enemies by MAKING them your friends. Letting Christ's love control us, as 2 Corinthians 5:14 says in the NLT. Serving the master that is love, by receiving and releasing the gift that the master has given us. Letting love rule and reign in our lives. TRUSTING love to rule and reign in our lives. That's what the Kingdom is--it is the realm where the King rules and reigns. When we know and believe that we are loved... that's when we CAN love. According to our faith, so it shall be unto us. Have faith in love, and love will be in you. And love will BE you!