Power part 4
Power, love, a sound mind. That's what we've been given. And that is a spirit. THE Spirit. The Holy Spirit. The Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The truth that God is love and He loves you. And that's the point. Receiving and releasing His love. Its not a spirit of fear that is afraid to love. It is the exact opposite. It is the Spirit of Love that has no room for fear! Love is powerful, I'm telling you. Its hard to resist. When someone loves you... that's what we're all looking for. That's the desire of our hearts. That's why we were created. Think about it: We long for love more than anything else because love is the whole point of the whole thing. Its all about love. Jesus' abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life is a life of love. That's what makes is abundant, and everlasting, and eternal! Love is what makes life worth living. And love is what makes life possible to live. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. You can't have one without the other. Because they are not just connected. They are the same thing. And I've said many times that the hardest part about life is just living it... doing what you've gotta do day after day after day... living is powerful. Truly living. Letting God love you and loving others with that love. There's nothing more powerful than that. You've probably heard the saying, "You aren't called to change the world, but by loving someone you can change THEIR world." And its true. Love is all powerful. And, really, that doesn't mean MOST powerful. Because that would mean that something other than love HAS power. And nothing else does. Love isn't MOST powerful, love is ALL powerful. Love has all of the power. Love IS all of the power! So when you get overwhelmed... or when you don't know what to do... just do what you know; Love! Love will win the day, because on the cross love WON the day. Jesus won the war to end all wars. Which means there are no more wars to fight. We don't have to scratch and claw for everything we get. We already have what we need. We can rest. Relax. We can stop trying so hard to be someone we're not, and we can embrace who we really are. We can BE who we really are by letting Jesus be who HE really is in us, and through us, and as us. And that's where the power comes from; we are seated at the right hand of the Father because HE is seated at the right hand of the Father. As He is, so are we in this world. What is true about Jesus is what is true about you. And what is true about Jesus is that He is the Father's beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased. Which means WE are the Father's beloved Son in whom He is well pleased. Which means we can stop trying to earn His approval. We already have it. And there is nothing that will equip and empower a Son like His Father's approval. That's where our power comes from. Our heavenly Father's love fills us up, and then we fill ourselves to overflowing with what we've been filled with, and then it comes out. Naturally. All over everybody we come into contact with. We CAN change people's lives by loving them. Its miraculous. Love is a miracle. Its powerful. And its not just something we DO. Its who we ARE. We are powerful. Connected to the unlimited source of love that is our heavenly Father!