But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 1 Timothy 1:5.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Imitate Me as My dear children and walk in love. I am love. I think in love, talk in love, and walk in love. There is no contradiction to love in Me. You can live securely in the light of My love which is the light of life.
What does a life of pure love look like? I have given you the exact image of Me in One like you. Jesus.
And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. Hebrews 1:3.
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. Colossians 1:13-15.
In seeing Him you are seeing Me. My glory is reflected to a light your eyes can see in Jesus.
For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
And in Jesus you could reach out and touch Me, and like the little children, be held in My arms and blessed.
But what did He tell you He did that was walking in perfect love of Me and men? He kept all My commandments.
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:10-13.
Jesus kept all My commandments perfectly. He came to serve Me and you, not to be served by you. Love serves with joy. And in this, love fulfills all the law. Something no one was able to do since Adam corrupted the seed by submitting to a lie and rejecting the truth. Adam broke the one command I gave him. And what did that prove? He had no love for Me or his neighbor. And without love, he had nothing. And he gave all those born from him, born from below and no longer above, spirits dead to Me and alive to sin. He turned his entire line into children of the devil, the master he had chosen. Adam murdered the eternal life in him and gave up his throne in Heaven for a lie. But it all happened because he was acting without love.
Man was no longer able to perfectly keep the two greatest commandments that contain all the rest: To love Me, your Father, the One true God, with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself. It is a love that turns you into one who serves others.
Love is not of your mind, will or your emotions, although they can be renewed to line up with perfect love, but love is of the heart, and by that, I mean your spirit, the inner man of the heart. The part that became dead and dormant in Adam and his descendants. He had made your hearts evil, desperately sick, for that is not how they were made to be. That is why there is no peace for the wicked. And that is why the devil has no peace either. Both man and the devil have cut themselves off from their source, which is love, and are not able to find any true rest. Like a fish out of water (the source of its creation) and a branch cut off from a vine (the source of its life), so are you without being connected to Me by love.
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it? “I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.” Jeremiah 17:9-10.
In order to love with the pure love that I have created you to function in like Me, I had to write My law in your heart. It is not outer control but inside desire, inside perfection, that works out. That is the way I am, deep in Me, My thoughts generate perfect plans of love and then they are birthed into manifestation by My spoken Word performed by My Spirit, but they are conceived in My heart. You must have your heart right before your life gets right. Perfect love starts in the heart, but it does not stay there.
To have this pure love in your heart, you must be born again from above. You must change your source from perishable to imperishable, from lies to the truth, from corruptible seed to incorruptible seed, and from mortal to immortal. You must change the ways of Adam to the ways of Jesus in your life. And that is the narrow way of obedience. You must change from rebellion and disobedience to obedience.
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Ephesians 2:1-2.
Unless the seed falls to the ground and dies, it produces no fruit. You must die to the old man born from below of Adam’s line and rise to newness of life in Jesus, back in My line.
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13.
This transformation (metamorphoo) is like what happens with a caterpillar when he transforms to a butterfly. Once it has eaten enough to get out of its small skin, shredding it five times, it spins its own cocoon or burial shroud and dies to itself, it turns into a soup what once was a caterpillar and in the soup imaginary discs appear and begin to form a new creation out of the old and the result is a beautiful creature as different from the caterpillar in its way of life as night from day. And yet under those wings, beautiful eye, and new mouth you can still see the body of the caterpillar.
What am I telling you? That you are a new creation in Christ but you still see your earthly body there until Jesus returns and you receive your immortal glorified body to match your already immortal glorified spirit. The outside will then perfectly match the within.
But even now you must not see yourself as you once did before you received Jesus. You are a totally new creation. You no longer have a wicked and desperately sick heart (spirit). You now have My Spirit poured into your spirit giving you rivers of pure love. You have been changed from darkness into light.
You are holy. A temple of My Holy Spirit within. You are as beautiful as what shone forth from within My Son on the mountain of the transfiguration, which, incidentally, is the same Greek word “metamorphoo” which is also translated “transformed.”
Most people, even believers, do not understand the importance of being born again from above or even what it is. Even those who ask others, “Are you born again?” generally do not have even a fraction of understanding what they are asking. If they did, they would ask everyone they met, it is so earthshaking. In this life, to understand the whole magnitude of what being born again from above means is beyond all you can ask or think because of the limits you have clung to for so many years.
Now draw close and listen to what I am telling you and do not harden your hearts because of how you have felt or the disappointments you find in your behavior each day. Most think that their sins are forgiven in Jesus but that they personally remain the same as they were before they received Him as Lord. They will say things like, “oh well, no one is perfect,” or keep begging Me to forgive what they already confessed, walking under a cloud of guilt and feeling inadequate to walk the perfection of pure love. You are not the same but just forgiven. No. THE OLD CANNOT INHERIT THE NEW. You cannot pour new wine into old wine skins, it will burst them for they are limited in their capacity to enlarge.
You no longer belong to the devil that you should put up with his lies. Destroy that old house, the stronghold the devil had in your mind, and build entirely new on your new foundation of My Word. Get off the shifting sand of the devil, doubt and unbelief, get off the sand that conforms to your body of sin, you have now begun to build on the solid rock of the Word that gave you new birth as a whole new creation in Christ. Old things have passed away. They are dead and gone. Do not keep looking back to Egypt. You are no longer a slave but a son and have a place in My house forever. That old man with the evil, stony heart is GONE, let him go. Like the caterpillar, you have to destroy the old to embrace the new.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 1:17.
I raise you up from the ash heap to seat you with princes, the prince of peace. And what do you find there? The life of good deeds I prepared from you in Christ Jesus since before the world began. The whole world has been waiting for you.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were deadin our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:4-10.
You are My masterpiece, created and then recreated. Born from below, now born from above. Reconciliation and emancipation. You can go forth doing good. Free to be the amazing, wonderful generous you I made you to be.
And the life of good deeds is all prepared, provided for, set out, and waiting for you to run upon it. It is the great work for the Kingdom that I have reserved for you.
There is a saying people say to make others feel good when they don’t have much or had a loss in their finances or business and it is “You cannot take it with you.” Which is true of earthly goods but I do tell you there is something you do take with you and yet most people are not giving this the attention they should:
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow with them.” Revelation 14:13.
You bring your deeds with you to Me, to whom you must render an account. All is open to Me, but the question is, “are you open to Me?” Can you come forth and show your deeds were done in Me? That is, in love. Have you been doing the works I gave you to do?
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10.
I love you. And that is the narrow path. The path of pure love and good deeds, all prepared for you in advace byYou are not to be killing time as Adam did. You are to be redeeming the time as My Son did. He redeemed you and He made every minute count for the Kingdom by keeping My Word and doing My works. And that is love. Love your life that you might live. Love the One who did forgive, all your sins as if they had never been.
For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him to whom we must render an account. Hebrews 4:12-13.