I think there are so many places in the Lord where people are positioned, and it has nothing to do with good or bad, it just is. And the Lord is going to save whom He will save. We have a drive to really know the Lord and to reach into this level. We have to do what we have to do. They have to do what they have to do.
He must increase. We must decrease. Jesus said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. As we're reaching into Him, and we're decreasing in ourselves, that's where the life is at. That's exactly where we're going to receive our sustenance, and have this ability to live and walk in the spirit.
God is, He's drawing us up short in our love factor. There is a level of love that we have not yet attained in God. And it's a pure love for people. It's not judgmental. It's not critical. It doesn't pigeonhole them. It's really realizing that God is in control. He honestly, seriously is in control of people's lives. And He has people there, whether we agree with what they believe, whether we agree, and understand, does not matter. It's the Lordship of Jesus Christ that is ruling, and reigning in this earth. Especially in His body, especially in those believers. I am trying to throw out of my heart, things of criticism, things of pigeonholing people, and saying they're on this level, and someday they'll grow up, and they'll, and God will, bring them to the level that I'm at.
Maybe He won't. Maybe He has them for a very specific purpose, and a function in the body of Christ that is very diverse from what you understand or you've ever experienced. If we're under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, we submit to His Spirit ,and His Lordship. I know that we reach in, and we are pressing into the kingdom and we're pressing in, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that because that's what God's created us to be.
But we cannot exclude or demean or forget that we're just a small part of the kingdom of God. Just a small part, and we don't understand it all, and we don't see it all.
God loves His creation. He's not willing that any perish. And there are all different places, all different abiding places in the Lord.
Different levels, different people, but they're all functioning as a part of what God has created and brought forth. Honestly, it's not different. It's the same. We're talking about the Spirit of God that loves. He loves His people. We have talked an awful lot about God's love, how much He loves us, how much He cares about each one of us, and that is a truth that we must rest our hearts in.
It's so important that we don't look and judge. There's only one judge. There's only one that's going to judge, and that's God. We don't have even the right to judge. We simply have the right to love as He loved. We'll be involved in the kingdom in His love. I think the things that we battle today on a human level are not going to be with us any longer. Thank you, Lord. I'm glad for that.
It's the love that holds us together. Come out of her, my people. That's the Holy Spirit speaking from the heart of the Father. He's gathering us. He's bringing us all together. I think there's an urgency that is important that each one walk out what God's speaking to him.
See, that doesn't exclude love. And it doesn't exclude compassion. The kingdom of God has come near you. And we're caught in the middle of two ages. And God's sorting it out, because all that He has called are going to reach into that final place. Our love is a blanketing thing that we have for one another. It covers every aspect.
The last time I heard out of the scriptures, God is love. So if there's anything in us that's other than love, better investigate a little bit, better dig into the Word, better find out from God what's going on, because He is love. And out of your spirit, you're going to love because He's love.
I think it's very, very important That we understand when things start appearing one way, investigate. Make sure it's coming from love. Make sure that there's life in it. Make sure there's an anointing on it. Because there's a lot of people speaking words out there that are not coming from God. This love is going to control, it's going to rule, and reign in the earth.
This is what the kingdom is. It's all about, it's about His love coming forth. It will envelop the entire world.
I don't think we have the level of love we need. Paul said, I would that I be a curse for my brother. I think it's something we're reaching for. I think we're reaching for it. I can't say that I walk in that kind of love. We need to really ask the Lord, keep us humble. Because Our ways are not His ways.
I was thinking of Jonah, and I was thinking of did Jonah love Nineveh? Do I love the people I'm with? Am I going to evaluate those people that I'm with? I don't want to have an evaluating bone in my body. I know there's different places that God is placing us, and I'm not here to judge that purpose. None of us are. We've got to be in the pure state of keeping clean. Keeping my thoughts clean, and pure before the Lord. And I want that to be in me so bad. I think we're going in that direction.
We need to understand that the love of God is available for us to minister to other people. But the love of God is being presented to us of saying, that situation that seemed insoluble.
It can't be solved. We can impart, we can pray the love of God into situations. The love of God is supernatural. Then Lord don't let me try to develop some natural ways of operating in this new environment. Let me keep my heart open, and expectant that I'm going to be a part of this, but the way it unfolds may well surprise me.
I think that we can't figure God's love out. It's not a feeling, and we're not going to attain it. It's like He throws you in the deep end, and just says, swim. And you just get in motion, and you start swimming. And as you, you minister His love. In all honesty, sometimes you fail in ministering His love, okay?
And that's all right. If you take it as a lesson, it's all right. But you don't quit swimming. No. Jesus was talking to Nicodemus about the Spirit, the way it moves, and I think that's exactly the truth. We will move in the love of God without even knowing how we moved in the love of God. Because it doesn't work with our brains. It's impossible to please God without faith.
that's exactly; if you're in the pool swimming, and you start to go down, what's the first thing you do? You start moving those arms, and legs and try to come to the surface. I do believe that God allows us to feel that we haven't attained, so we keep reaching in.
