Supply and Demand part 2
In economics, supply and demand have a very interesting relationship. If supply is high, demand is usually low. But if supply is low, that makes demand high. In the upside down backwards economy of the Kingdom its very interesting because the demand is high... everybody--EVERYBODY--wants, desires, needs love... and the supply is high... we are connected to the limitless source of love; the God who IS love. So instead of the market kind of trying to figure itself out... we can love without hesitation. We can love without trying to figure out if someone "deserves it." As it says in one of my favorite westerns, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it." For God so loved the WORLD, right? And God is no respecter of persons, right? Love doesn't keep a record of wrongs, right? So the demand, "Love me, love me, say that you love me," can be met by those of that know and believe we are loved. Because, as always, you can't give what you don't have. And you can only give what you do have. Hurting people hurt people. But loved people love people. What you believe is inside you comes out. Whether its bitterness, anger, sadness, fear... or forgiveness, mercy, grace, and love. And when you know that what you've received from your heavenly Father is more important (and more powerful) than what you get from whoever you come into contact with... that's when you can receive it AND release it. Receive it BY releasing it. The supply doesn't dictate the demand. People always have and always will want love more than anything else. It is the most basic human desire--the desire of our hearts. And I'm telling you, sometimes even when we are getting all the love we could ever need, sometimes it still feels like something is missing. We don't always appreciate what we've got. So the demand is ALWAYS there. And the supply is ALWAYS there. People will always need it. And we will always have it. So what we ought to do... let me quote a Bible verse today: "Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other" (1 John 4:11 NLT). To me, that's kind of the sum total of the whole thing. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth that leads and guides us into all truth, tells us one thing in that still, small voice: God is love, and He loves you. So what everybody is looking for all the time--looking for love in all the wrong places--is really inside the whole time. Like Wizard of Oz. We go on this journey to "get" something only to find that we had it the whole time. Otherwise we couldn't have completed the journey in the first place. Its a journey of discovery. Self discovery. Finding out who we are in Christ by finding out who Christ is in us as He reveals Himself to us, and in us, and through us, and as us. We don't have to "figure God out." All we have to do is obey the New Commandment and love each other as Jesus loved us. Like it says in 1 John 4:11: He loved us, so we ought to love each other. Receive it and release it. Let the unlimited supply take care of the constant demand. People always have, and always will, need love. And they can only get it from those of us who know and believe that we have it. So don't be stingy with your love. Give it away. Share it. And in that way... experience it!