Clothe yourself with Love Col. 3:14

There is a miracle we live with, that is a real mystery: The miracle of Christ living in us. This is a reality of God’s Kingdom in our midst. Jesus said: “those who truly love me will be loved by me and my Father; we will come and make our home in you.” The tough part to realize as the antithesis is that: God loves us but he does not force it onto us! We are the ones who choose to love him back by our actions because we cannot fake-love Jesus. When we truly love Jesus, he takes our mortality and turns it into life. In Jesus Christ, we are able to keep his words, and produce fruits worthy of repentance. When God is at the very center of our lives, and in charge, everything is possible. I see this picture in the book of Revelation where God Almighty and the lamb are the temple of the new Jerusalem and the tree of life continue to produce fruits on the edges of the river. What I saw in that picture, is a place of perfect love and undisturbed order of heaven, leading to the restoration of...

Saul of Tarsus found himself on the ground after being hit by a flashing light from Jesus’ glory. The ground is a place we don’t really want to be at, but one that is a profound good teacher. We feel powerless there because in contrast, we want to stand tall/ feel powerful, enough to affect our own destiny. But we, (humans) have not done a good job leading ourselves. Time and time again we prove that without God, we are doomed to fail. Genesis 11 is such example for us. The tower of Babel was to be the most magnificent in the world, and it became a disaster after a massive confusion. They wanted to make a name for themselves so, God was not in it. At the height of his career, Saul experienced being on the ground, which seemed foreign to him as he had never been in such situation before. He was powerless on the ground and blind. Christ invites us to join him on the ground, because he humbled himself to the lowest level of a servant so we can learn the ways of his Kingdom. Jesus was d...