Matt 5:14

We are Love Beings.

Everyday we are growing in love. We mature in our walk believing in love. We believe that love is the solution to every problem in our life. We believe that love is better than force, better than going to the law, better than using the whip, better than argument, better than fighting.

We believe in the love way. The only sure way.

When Jesus said, "I am the way", He meant that He was the love way. The best way!

If we could learn to walk in love and make it the business of our lives, we would solve many problems of human relationships which we thought were impossible.

Jesus lived in love. He lived in the realm of love. He spoke love. His words were love-filled. His acts and deeds were all out of love. He could not help healing the sick. Love drove Him. Love compelled Him.

Christianity is love in our daily contact with people. It is my acting as Jesus did when he walked this earth. 1John 4:7-8, "Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." Jesus brought a new kind of love. He demonstrated it in His daily walk. If He has control of one, Love would dominate in all that he said or did. It would be the Father actually living His life through us.

Right now, i can almost hear you saying..."Andrew, what you're saying is good, but how do i start to love like that? It's hard, i don't know how to love the way jesus loved"

For years, this bothered me too. And then God showed me this. John 15:5, "I am the vine, and ye are the branches." It was then i started to understand that my inability was in trying. I was always trying to love. Trying to love God, trying to bring that Jesus-kind of love to the lost world out there. Trying, trying. Therein was my failure.

You see, The Holy Spirit's real ministry is building the Father's nature into us. We are the fruit bearing part of the Vine. Jesus does not bear fruit. The Holy Spirit does not bear fruit. The branches are the ones that bear the fruit, enabled by the Holy Spirit. Now we see Gal 5:22, "But the fruit of the spirit is Love". The fruit here, is not referring to the fruit of the Holy Spirit, but the fruit of the recreated spirit in every child of God, borned again - the love fruit of the one with Eternal Life. Romans 5:5, tells us this, "For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit." That means that the love of God comes with the New Birth to the recreated Human Spirit - called the Heart.

It is when we stop trying to bring forth the good fruit of love, but start learning to know in truth, the person of Love (for God Himself is love), and all that He has established for us by the perfect and finished work of Calvary, that our hearts may be consumed by that love shed abroad by the Holy spirit. And thereafter, unconsciously but beautifully become that walking vessel of love seen and felt by all that come into contact with us. You see, the redemptive work of Christ on the cross is a reality, and as we mediate upon this truth as revealed to us in the scriptures, it is the Holy Spirit in us that makes it a reality to our inner man, our spirit being. And this reality then becomes a fruit bore by our spirit - the "branch". It is not forced, it is not tried, it is beautiful truth being manifested in our conduct, becoming a physical reality for all to see and experience. We see in 1John 4:10, "In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son {to be} the propitiation for our sins." Folks, it was never about us, our self-effort and our ability. It was simply because we were unable, that Jesus came, that through Him we would be able. (Phil 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me) We know that the greatest expression of God - who is love - is in the finished work of Christ. It is in God the Father who made Him who knew no sin {to be} sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him - 2 Cor 5:21.

We are able to walk in love, because we know Love. We know God. And we know what Jesus has sacrificed to give to us on that cross 2000 years ago - the biggest expression of love.

We are the branches and we have no need to worry about the fruits. It is the vine that bears that responsibily.

And i say to you today, "We who are of Jesus are of a perfect Vine!"