Temple part 3
The human body is a shrine to love. I don't know how else to put it. The most important thing in the world is on full display inside of us. And that means it can be on display THROUGH us. That's the key: What's inside--what you know and believe is inside--WILL come out. We live from the inside-out. Even when we don't realize it. Because 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. So that's why I think the Apostle Paul asked the question, "Don't you realize?" We are who we are. Always have been. Always will be. We were made in the image and likeness of God. And then, on the cross, we were conformed to the image of His Son. Our temple was filled, if I can say it that way. And, listen, to be perfectly clear, the Holy Spirit doesn't fill us with God's love. We have always been loved. We will always be loved. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth that leads and guides us into all truth. The Holy Spirit doesn't make God love us. The Holy Spirit reveals the truth about God's love to us! He is the love receptor. Through the Holy Spirit we can receive and release the love of God. And in that way, experience it. Love IS giving. So you FEEL love when you GIVE love. If you want to know that you are loved... love someone. Because that's how we walk by faith. If you give it away, that means that (at least on some level) you believe you have it. Again: Can't give what you don't have. If you give it, that means you believe you have it. What you believe is inside WILL come out. It has to. What you do flows from what you believe. Yesterday I think I mentioned part of one of my favorite verses about Christ's love controlling us. And here's the deal with that: Either you don't believe you are loved and you do everything you do in order to get what you think you don't have. You look for love in all the wrong places, and you're willing to settle for just about anything. OR. You know that you ARE loved, and you do everything you do in order to share what you've got. Because its too good to keep to yourself. It comes out. Naturally. When you know its in there. That's what a shrine is for; you put the important thing front and center so everybody can see it. Put it on display. Let people worship it, if I can go to that level. And I know it kind of weirds people out a little bit when I say things like, "I'm obsessed with love." Or, "I worship love." But guys... God IS love. That's the whole point of the whole thing. Jesus said people would know His disciples by the love they had. And yet, in this day and age, it seems like people assume you're a Christian if you're mean and judgmental and hypocritical. That's not right. Our bodies are not supposed to be temples of all that nonsense. That's why Jesus kicked the tables over, right? To redecorate. To put things in Divine Order. And now that the light of the world is shining we can see that things ARE in Divine Order. The Holy Spirit lives in us. LOVE lives in us!