Alright. So hear me out. This is HUGE news and it will change the entire world if only a FEW people in every generation grasp hold of its truth and let it apply.
We are trash. We are junk. Because of our flesh. We can offer God nothing, and we can offer people nothing.
Then in walks Jesus.
Like in Ezekiel 16, He saw us squirming in our own blood as helpless, dirty creatures. We deserve nothing of Him, but He chooses to claim us as His own despite our filth.
When Christians realize that simple fact that we deserve nothing of God but that He chooses to love us anyway, we can allow movement, a world changing lifestyle:
complete devotion in the richest of unions: a Divine union.
When we are one with Christ, so tight, so close, so unbreakable, our flesh will be removed. We will be walking as a skinless, exposed people. Naked before Christ. So He clothes us.
It should never be our goal to love anyone.
(Stay with me here…)
It should never be our goal to show love in any way to anyone.
(Hear me out…)
It should never be our goal to even BE love to anyone.
(Here comes the explaination...)
Picture a tile floor. This one has a drain. Water is turned on and starts to amount on the floor. It is visible to us, but because of the drain on the floor, it starts to disappear and what accumulation there was seeps into the holes in the floor. The water can’t completely fill. But if there was not a drain, the water would continue to fill and fill up the room and eventually would over-flow.
When we ask God to empty us from ourselves and focus on being filled by Him (He is the Living Water), the overflow of God will saturate everyone we come into contact with with sopping wet God love. Not because of how we loved, but because of how He first loved us. The love would never had been there hif He hadn't loved us first, because we have nothing to offer but what He gives us.
If we don’t have that Divine union with Christ, we will be like that floor with a drain. The love will slip through and disappear into fear, distrust, etc.
When we allow our flesh to love others, we create a small crack in that Divine union and God’s love slips through even more.
When we have that Divine union with the God of everything, He will be a natural overflow through every single thing we do. Walking hand in hand, heart in heart with our Savior, being filled, over-filled, by Him... how beautiful is that? Because God IS love, the natural overflow of HIM in us will be love. There is no way out of it. It is nothing we do. It is because we are so much in a union with God that our actions will be filled with Him.
If it is only for the sake of the people around you, don’t love with your flesh. Fall in love with Christ, allow Him to fuse that Divine union with you, and let Him love you so that the world can get it, too. We may be the only love people get… do you want that love to be a meager expression of flesh or an overflow of the God of more galaxies than all people that were ever in existence?
Clog your drain up, alright?
And to seal the deal, go flood your bathroom!!
Haha.
Isn’t our God great?
“Come riding on a rushing wind
Blow through our hair and touch our skin
I want to feel You now like I felt You then
Strip away my calloused heart
Set Your arrow hit Your mark
Bring me back to where Love starts
Bring me back to where You are
Father, I’m running. Father, I’m coming home
I cannot go on
Your child is running. Father, I’m coming home
Back where I belong
I know You’ve heard this all before
When I’m down and crying on the floor
Saying I want You and nothing more
But I’m breaking in my heart tonight
I’ve tried to stand. I’ve tried to fight
But I cannot see without Your light
No, I cannot breathe without You
When I saw you I was ashamed
You were pure and I was stained
But You ran to me and You called my name
There were tears of joy upon Your face.”
Phil Wickham's "Home"
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