And we just don't stop. We keep reaching in. We keep believing.
That's what God meant when he said, "God so loved the world." He added a new dimension to love called "so.” That to me is an intensity, a word of intensity, a word of focus. Go through the scriptures, and you hear the term “perfect love.” I have to apply that. I think that reaches into the place where; we do a lot of things that we're not really cognizant of because we have become God's love in the earth. Is it perfected yet? No, because He has a lot more for us. But it boils down to that; we increase every day in God's love as we love Him. The Beatitudes are all about a walk in the Spirit. "Blessed are the poor in Spirit, they shall see God." Where is my poverty? Where have I given out? Where have I loved? Where have I moved as He moved? Not at my initiative, but at His initiative through me. That's real poverty, because then somebody else has to come along and do for you what you were doing for someone else. This whole thing of love is so expansive, it's so big, it's so wonderful. The only way we will miss it is if we reject when He loves us. Just think about Moses. He didn't get to go into the Promised Land. But he's still at the right hand of the Father. God loved him that much. We know he messed up. He knows he messed up. God says, okay, I'm going to punish you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you. That doesn't mean that you're not totally connected to Me.
How did God transform a murderer into a ministry? By His love. I read the Old Testament, you can get focused on all of these things that happened, and miss that fact. That all through the times the children of Israel turned their backs on God, turned to idols, did this, did that, everything else. I relate with the Sons of Thunder. And I know I need to repent of that because I don't need any of that in me. I need more of His love in me. We don't really have a clue how much we need the love of God expanded in us. Individually and collectively as the body of Christ, so we can minister His love fully, completely, without any hindrances, without any shortfall in our lives. That His love can truly come through us, and minister life in all aspects of who He is through that love, and touch lives, and transform lives, and change lives. I remember my son, Aaron. He's a kid that he couldn't walk, he couldn't talk, he's bed ridden, wheelchair ridden, and everything else, yet the love of God came through this kid and touched lives. To the point where people took time to write on a piece of paper what they experienced because of him, just smiling at them. Two o'clock in the morning, the janitor's cleaning the floor, and mumbling, and grumbling to himself about, I hate this job, and I hate this, and I hate that, and blah, blah, blah. And he looks at my son and sees this smile on his face, and all of a sudden, what has he got to be smiling about? I look at the situation, and I'm thinking, what is my excuse? He doesn't have anything. He isn't anything. But this blob of human flesh, and blood sitting there on the bed. And yet, something was coming through that touched people's lives. It was the love of the Father. How that happens? Well your guess is as good as mine, but it happened. I don't have an excuse. Neither do you. We are to be channels of His love. It's a tremendous responsibility to minister His love, and to minister it in a, responsibility, and a maturity, and a humility that ministers life to people.
It's about us decreasing, and Him increasing. I know the desolation that we can experience when we're striving to reach up into the Lord. It's a death process. We're dying, but it's a good thing. We have got to stop looking at the flesh life, and start looking at what's happening in the Spirit life. That's where the life's at. Jesus said, I'm spirit and I'm life. It's not about what you do or don't do. It's about what's in your spirit, what God's creating in you. And He's creating His love in you, a love that surpasses anything you can imagine. It's a reality. It's not words, it's not things, it's not do's and don't s. It's a spirit.
This thing of love, the manifestation of it is different than what the human mind thinks. How's it gonna look? And it's not going to probably look the way you think, and you probably won't move in it the way you think you will. As you all know, I'm a school bus driver. I've got 65 screaming kids every morning, and every afternoon that I get to minister the love of God to. My tendency on the natural would be to stop the bus every day, and yell at them and tell them to shut up. And that doesn't work. I just let you, just to let you know. I'm there to impart a Spirit to those whose hearts are open. And some may not be open now, and so they'll go through what they'll go through, and some are more open, and they receive the Spirit of the Lord. I see changes in some of them, but it's not because of something I said. It's just because I was there. That was it. I was there.
That's really true, Ron, and the love of God, and his patience with us runs very close together. He loves us, and I tell you, it's with a patience beyond our understanding. And that's the kind of love we have to have for one another based on God's patience for us. And it's appropriating more of His love every day
