Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Eternal life has a quantity of days.  Everybody gets them. Everyone you know is going to live forever.
Eternal life has a QUALITY of days. Everybody does NOT get them. Everyone you know has an opportunity  to get them.

The Bible defines this quality of eternal life as a life WITH the Son, WITH a relationship with Jesus.  The days to choose Him are limited.  In fact, today might be the ONLY day you have, so don't waste it. Quality eternal life comes to us only 1 way: thru Jesus.  Quality eternal life comes to us only on 1 day: today.

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What you believe about Jesus demonstrates what you already believe about the Father.  To call Jesus a lie by unbelief calls the Father and the Spirit liars too. We all have spent at least some of our lives in that position. We all must admit, "OOPS, I called God a LIAR."

For many, the Spirit has already helped these actually TRUE testimonies of God finally "ring true" in their hearts. For those who have not, my prayer is for conviction and the courage to say "OOPS , I have had this wrong all along. This stuff really IS TRUE." May real truth actually RING TRUE in hearts today.

The heart of God is in His people. My heart must be in His people if I want to be in the center of His will.  I must be loving those that God has demonstrated an interest in. 

Being smack dab in the heart of God=being smack dab in the heart of His people=being smack dab in His will. 

People of course are sometimes inconvenient and tiresome.  But so are raising children, and both are THE GOOD STUFF of life.

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You have been FIRST-LOVED by God. That is, God is love and has chosen to share his great love with you. We are over-shadowed by it.  We are humbled, awed, grateful and worshipful on the INSIDE.

Today's passage wants us to do something with our OUTSIDES too. Go love the brotherhood and so demonstrate the warm fuzzies that are on your INSIDE.  Because God FIRST-LOVED you, go and second-love the sisterhood in a similar way. Because of God's MEGA-love, we are to share it in our inadequate, MICRO-love way. We have been FIRST-LOVED, so go love the KNUCKLEHOOD.

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Virginia's license plates scream, "Virginia is for LOVERS." 1 John says the same thing about God and the people of God.  Maybe we should get a Christian License plate.

We love the INVISIBLE God by loving the VISIBLE knuckleheads of God. This "obedience" to love people proves an internal, invisible love for God. It is proving something you cannot see by the doing of something you CAN see.

Love is the test of reality.  God's residence results in FELLOWSHIP.  Like God's love is directed at people, so should our's. bewithme.us to subscribe for 2024.  I'll encourage you to love if you sign up, for, "Christianity is for LOVERS"

Those who bear the name-title "Jr." are supposed to resemble their patriarch.  The characteristic that God wants us to inherit is His LOVE. For:

• God is Love--It is His primary characteristic; His DNA
• Love is from God--His love spills out.  He didn't keep it all to Himself
• Love is shown most clearly in Jesus--He fixes the unfixable and is the walking example of how to love
• Love of People is the primary way we demonstrate being in God's family. This is where we best resemble our Patriarch. This is where we get the "Jr." title.
• Our love of the brotherhood is attached and sourced in the knowledge that God loved me first.  

He is the "Sr.". We are "Lover's-of-People, Jr."  Let's resemble this family characteristic.

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We are like the child on the playground who calls out to another, "My Dad is BIGGER THAN YOUR DAD." And it is indeed true.  Spiritually, we are in the family of the MEGA-DAD.

He's great in SIZE, in VOLUME, in SIGNIFICANCE, in STRENGTH, etc. etc.

The question that I was left with was: Is my RESPONSE to the MEGA-Dad, also a mega response?  Am I like a Mega-child, who is struck with MEGA-Wonder; who calls out in MEGA-Worship; who thanks with MEGA-Appreciation; and utilizes the MEGA-access that I have from being in the family of the Mega-Dad? It is right to "think the world of our Father" because it is true: My Dad is bigger than your dad.

When a boy falls in love with a girl, he takes an interest in the things that interest her. Similarly, as we become more closely associated with the Lord, we will begin to love what He loves. 

The People of God are MY people because they are HIS people. I love them, because HE loves them.  I love them NOT because they are particularly lovable. Tuning my heart toward the people of God shows that my heart is tuned to HIM.

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Our capacity for self-deception is infinite. God's capacity for deception is ZERO. He knows everything and accurately sees both the outside and the inside; the hands and the heart.

Interior love is proven by exterior action.
The love of God is manifested by love of his people.
We should find a trail of tenderness when we follow the breadcrumbs of behavior of a Christian.
We assess ourselves not just by our head but by our hands; not just by our intentions but by our possessions; and not just by our words  but by our works.

If we do this right we live a pleasing life. By having a correlation of the exterior to the interior, this is a life that can PLEASE GOD. 
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If there were only my ACTIONS toward the brotherhood, what would they convey about my feelings toward GOD?  Would they demonstrate that I love God? Or, could someone even say, 'your actions look like you distain God!'

The point is, my actions toward the brotherhood (the knucklehood) betray my beliefs. If you look at my actions toward PEOPLE in the Church, they leave a path of breadcrumbs that lead to God.  Hopefully, they leave a TRAIL OF TENDERNESS.

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