Examples of Unconditional Love and How to know if I’m embracing it

God is Love and He is the absolute and final authority.

Most discussions of faith and Love are staged looking ‘up’, where we consider heaven is, but as we accept God’s Grace, we begin to see ‘from’ heaven, our new vantage point.  I’d like to take you on a short journey into the Mind of God, as He sees Love.  I’d like to share two perfect examples of Love, and as we walk, our vantage point will be changed, in this moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

The first example of Pure Love, with no conditions, is within the Godhead.  Each member of the Godhead accepts one another unconditionally.  Love (God) looks beyond their individual attributes and personalities, embracing their singular identity, God.  We wouldn’t think of arguing God is separate or divided, just because He is ‘seen’ in three persons.  We know The Lord our God is One.

The second example of Pure Love is much like the first, and equally important.  The only difference is that it may be a little shocking.  The second example is simply this: You are accepted with the same Unconditional Love.  As we meditate on the goodness of God we discover He loves you just like He loves The Holy Spirit or Jesus.  How and Why?  Just as in the first example, the individual attributes and personalities aren’t conditions for God to accept or reject.  The only thing that matters is the eternal perspective and have any conditions been met.  All conditions have been met and Jesus really did pay it all.  When Jesus proclaimed, ‘It is finished’, it really was. Everything you have known yourself as, has been taken account of, and absorbed (good and bad), not to change God, but to allow you to have the mind of Christ and experience His Kingdom.

Anyone can claim equality with God and many are doing it, while simply on another flesh trip.  The true test isn’t how you see yourself, but it’s how we see each other.  Jesus asked a very important question to the disciples… He asked, ‘Who do you say I am’.  Petere answered, ‘The Christ’.  The Christ is the Spirit.  We may understand God sees each of us as Christ, because He’s looking within, at The Christ Spirit; but, am I seeing everyone as God sees them?  The test isn’t who I say I am… it’s who do I say you are?  God’s Spirit in you is not looking at the outward appearances or performance, He’s looking at His Spirit in you, and that doesn’t change based on mood or actions, good or bad.   There is One Spirit and One God.  Divisions of men are caused by feeding from or looking through the other source.

Maybe I should have warned you about what was just written, but there are no words to absorb the shock of knowing that God really includes you (me) with Him, simply because it’s His desire.  He really did pay the price for you.  Our natural minds can’t quite comprehend the simplicity of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, while in our Earth suits.  But it’s still true, God accepts you 100%, with no reservations or conditions.  The true love that is flowing through you will see everyone else with the same love He’s provided.  With simple child-like faith, our perspective changes and we begin to experience The Kingdom of God.

Unconditionally,

David

“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” John 17:24

“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.  Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.” Romans 8:14-17

Just think of the implications of being a child of God.  Jesus, Son of God and according to Him, when you’ve seen the Son, you’ve seen the Father.  Are you a Son or Daughter of God?

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Love is as Light

Many times, the Bible illustrates through a principle known by some as ‘the Like/As principle’.  It uses things in the natural to point to spiritual truth.  They aren’t the same but they are ‘like/as’.  Love is as Light…

What is Love and how can it be unconditional?  To answer this question, I hope the following is of help to you.

Love is not something God does, it’s who He is.

Both Love and Light reveal,
neither can be overcome,
and are not moved by what they ‘see’.

Neither Love nor Light can fellowship with darkness;
because it’s converted in their presence.

Both Love and Light are honest with present reality;
they do not embellish or hide from Truth.

Without them, we understand as a child;
With them, I know as I am known.

Because of His grace, Love is who you are, as Love (God) sees you.  God (Love) sees no fault in you and no separation.  Any separation is perceived.  The Godhead is the perfect example of Love.  Each of the three accept one another unconditionally.  The invitation you’re given, is the same.  It’s to fellowship with God, allowing yourself to be so loved and accepted that you no longer see yourself separated from God.

The Kingdom of God is where all this happens… within.  The Spiritual you is the real you.  And you’ll continue even after your body is peeled away.

Grace 2 U,

David

God's love is not something He does; It's who He is. And by His grace, it's who you are. Walk into the glorious Light.

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The Kingdom of God is Within You

Got a few verses on my heart that I’m going to illustrate, over the next few days. This is one of them. I hope it helps someone understand how God isn’t attempting to get our natural man to perform. If we’ll embrace the grace of God, all the other things will just follow.

Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:1 (KJV)

An illustration of your identity, as God sees you, compared to our typical view of self.
An illustration of your identity, as God sees you, compared to our typical view of self.

All my Love,

David
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What’s inside an Onion?

>As we walk in uprightness and honesty, we find ourselves (God) peeling back the layers of our lives like an onion. With travailing pain, more is peeled away, and yet the core becomes approachable and more simplistic. We embrace Truth. If an onion is peeled back far enough, it disappears and there is No-Thing. Take No Thought (No-Thing) about what you should wear or take no thought about tomorrow for it will take care of itself.

click the following link if you can’t see the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=worKJEaJLoQ

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Lonely, I know it very, very well…

>Lonely, I know it very, very well…

Well, it’s been about 9 months since I’ve written much, and it’s been by design.  I’ll share more about the timing at another time.  At the end of the summer of 2009 (August), we purchased another video camera, having the desire to blog through means of video. 

Well, here is my first ‘Vlog’ (video blog).  It’s very important to my relationship with God, that I be as honest, open and willing as possible, with every aspect of my life.  My prayer for you is that you find some value as I journal my relationship with God, but I must confess, everything I do is for myself and my relationship with God…  My full intentions are to continue being real, honest and naked (of course, since it’s a video, I promise to keep my clothes on, haha).  If there is any light in me, I am fully persuaded that the light does its own evangelizing.  Please enjoy and feel free to dialogue, make comments, or ask questions.  My intention is not to lord over you, telling you how you should live, but rather, I am reporting where I am.

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The Parable of the Car

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The driver’s seat in your car faces forward for a reason; however, there is a small mirror provided, should you decide you need to briefly re-examine something in your immediate past.  It’s best to stay in your own lane, but side mirrors are provided should you attempt a lane-change or turn. 

Do not be sad if familiar cars turn from the road you are traveling, never to be seen again.  Sometimes driver’s decide to pull over and rest, and sometimes cars crash.  Cars will come and cars will go but the driver of each car is not the car. 

It can easily become confusing if you believe you are the car.  You are the operator within the car, so no matter what model car you sit, you are the observer of everything happening in and around.  The car may cease to exist.  It is only the part others see with the human eye.

There are all sorts of cars.  There are red ones that go fast and blue ones that have really large tires.  There are still others with silver paint and a bed in the back for hauling.  There are others still with rust all over and falling apart.  No matter the car, it’s most important to remember that the car we are looking at is not the person inside. 

Cheers,
David

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Life is not a practice run…

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This life is not a practice run, with the ‘real‘ coming later.
Put yourself out there and be vulnerable.
Don’t shrink back, run your own race.
The answers come easier when you put yourself out there.
Peace is for YOU today, but you gotta trust.
You gotta be the one God made you to be.
Never apologize for being you.
After all, God’s allowed a lot of things to give you that personality.
So, what if someone doesn’t like you and this makes you upset?
Have we gotten true love from them and why should we lie?
If someone doesn’t accept you, they have the problem.
God was thinking about you when He made you.
He accepts you just as you are.
And now the quest is on to discover just what He sees.
What do you think that might be?

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Am I walking By Faith or In Fear?

>MindChrist Early in the book of Genesis we find a man and woman, walking in the garden intimately with God.  They make a decision that would forever change humanity.  Their decision was to eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  To ‘eat’ means it was Adam and Eves’ motivation.  Their motivation, or intention of their heart was to take care of themselves.  They became independent, where they had been totally dependent upon God till this event.

Prior to the first ‘Declaration of Independence’, they were naked and didn’t even know it.  After the event, they were naked and they felt ashamed, trying to cover up.  Although God was never in denial about their wardrobe, He didn’t see any of their decision-making as a problem, except for the one thing they were told not to do.  God didn’t have a problem with any ‘action’ they would ever take except for the subtle core problem of being independent from Himself. 

God came to The Garden asking one simple question.  He asked Adam and Eve the same thing I want to ask you… “Who told you that you are naked?”  When God asked them this question, He was simply stating an obvious identity perception problem.  Adam and Eve, always being naked, weren’t judging themselves (or each other) until their child-like innocence was violated. 

Is it possible to live life, not judging ourselves by our actions?  Yes; in fact it’s a supernatural occurrence of walking by faith, born in love.  It’s the nature of unconditional love (Love without conditions) that looks past performance and sets focus on identity.  If your decision maker is ‘knowledge of good and evil’, you are eating from the same tree as Adam and Eve (The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil).  The whole point of Christ living in you is for you to surrender and trust Him, regardless of what it ‘looks’ like. 

The question God asked Adam and Eve was strangely never answered.  He asked them “Who told you that you were naked?”, yet God never answered the question.  So, let me ask you three questions about your current life and relationships…

Who told ‘you’ that ‘you’ were naked?
Who told ‘you’ that ‘they’ were naked?
Who told ‘them’ that ‘you’ were naked?

Light exposes everything.  Trying to ‘become something or someone’ is walking in the power of sin (fear).  It’s the covering up, using anything other than Grace that derails the experience of ‘Truth’ already finished in you.

I Am,
David
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A little understanding please…

When things go ‘right’ we give thanks to God and are all happy and stuff.  Why weren’t you happy when things were going differently than you had hoped?  This deserves prayerful consideration.

Most of us are thankful when things go ‘right’.  Few are actually happy in all situations.  I mean, genuinely happy in all things.  Pretending doesn’t count.  Having a mental disorder doesn’t count either.

The only thing that counts is finding your identity in Christ alone, and this comes from being honest, open and willing.  Out of this simple revelation, everything you ever need will flow; EVERYTHING.

My question is:  Why is it such a stretch for us to embrace a new plan, outside the plan we had secured our identity?  When you didn’t get the promotion, parking spot, or job- why is it that we are slow to understand one of the most simple truths about God and our relationship with Him?  How about bigger things?  What about when your political ideology isn’t winning, or your child is killed in an accident, or when you lose another loved one or friend; or worse still, if you receive a bad report from the doctor.

blueprint The answer is simple- far too simple for most of our educated minds to comprehend so I’m not going to attempt explaining it:  I’m simply going to state it, and you can do with it whatever you wish.  Do you remember the scripture in Jeremiah, the one about God’s ‘plans for us’ (‘thoughts toward us’ in KJV) ?  We all know it by heart.  It’s Jeremiah 29:11, and the NIV reads, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  In this passage, nowhere does it say that ‘I’ know the plans ‘He’ has for ‘me’.  It says that ‘He’ has a plan for ‘me’.  God isn’t secretive and will tell you His plan, but you’ve got to be willing to hear the answer; and it probably won’t make any worldly sense.  God deeply desires to take you from glory to glory.  This process means you will be let down, and disappointed at times.  If glory is being given to God, recognize that God is having an intervention- and you are the target of His affections.  Open your heart to what God is saying.

Abraham, the father of our faith, considered God’s instructions, and was obedient; offering up his child, the only means of fulfilling God’s promise.  He was obedient to a proceeding word from God.  Faith without works is dead.  If your eyes of understanding are opened, you will hear what the Spirit is saying.

It’s by the word of your testimony and the blood of the lamb that you overcome.  What you are going through is part of your own unique testimony and IS very important.  Everything about what you are going through is important.  How you got to this place (emotionally and physically), what you feel about it, what your hopes and dreams are (and were), and your present reality ‘now’; all are important (but they are not permanent).  Trusting God means your perception will change into His perception.  The revelation you receive, Truth, is permanent.  God is actively arranging and making changes in your life to bring you into a place you are already in, Him.  Embrace the flow of life.  This doesn’t set aside the grace of God- for if your testimony is all there is, Christ died in vain.

I Am,
David
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Why am I going through so much?

>breakbread When things don’t work out as hoped, and nothing can be done, God may be changing ‘me’.  Sooner or later we understand that resistance is futile.  God is the one behind my being let down and broken hearted.  God is breaking ‘me’.  My ‘knee’ is bowing.  There is no such thing as every knee not bowing and every tongue not confessing.  EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Your trouble (situation) may mean that it’s your turn.  Your knee is bowing and tongue needs to start confessing.  We know that faith without works is dead.  What this simply means is…  When we ‘connect’ with God, faith is formed.  This always requires a response.  Sometimes it’s to allow something to be changed within ourselves and sometimes it’s an outward expression.  You can rest assure that there is always a response.  There will always be a ‘tongue’ confession.

At the Last Supper, Jesus took bread and passed it for consumption.  The bread was first taken, then He gave thanks and broke it, then given to others (Luke  22:1-23).  His actions mirror a recurring theme throughout all the scripture (and all creation).  There is a very important message being spoken with His actions.  First, we recognize receiving Christ and His broken body.  We receive Him as “The Bridge” of death burial and resurrection, paying the way for us.  Secondly, as God wills, we experience something much greater, much deeper.  We begin to experience Christ in us.  We start to understand that He lives in us.  We see that it’s in Him that we live and move and have our being.  We see our new identity.  Further, being one with Him, we see we are the bread being broken and given to the world.

You don’t have to be confused with all the pain experienced in life…  God lives in you and loves you.  Christ is saying to the Father ‘Thank you for those given to to Him (you)’- and just like the bread, must be broken before it can be given out.  It’s when you are weak that you are strong.  When given out, you’re given to the world as light and salt.  To resist is futile.  Trust God- His surgical skills surpass all others.  His sword is sharper than any knife…

I guess the only sad part is that this type surgery is that He doesn’t anesthetize you while cutting.  There is a joy set before us.  Go in peace and allow God’s finished work to change you.

I Am,
David
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