The best thing about all this, (everything I've written in my last four or five posts,) is that it works so different from everything we've BEEN doing. What we've BEEN doing , striving and performing out of fear, always produces the same fruit. Meager pittances, where we have to tell ourselves and each other how good of a job we're doing, and it always suggests that we need to do more. And more. And more and more and more and ad infinatum. But the best thing about receiving love, is that the less you do, the more you are able to receive love.



Whereas before, it was always, "gotta do this, gotta do all these things that I know I have to do to keep my relationship with God going, to keep my spiritual growth going... gotta say the right things, gotta be the right way, gotta read enough Bible, gotta gotta gotta, until you are run ragged and are still faced only with the concept of doing more to make it any better...under this new system, of love, the more things you stop doing, the more you will be able to receive love from Him.

The LESS you do, the more you will be loved by Him. HUH.

When all that's required of you, in this true form of repentance, is to stop all of the things you are doing that are born out of fear, shame, guilt, pride, etc. etc. etc., and the devil has to leave you alone then, because He has no more hooks with which to grab you by, then all that's left for you to do is to be loved. And boy, will it feel good. Rest. True rest for your soul, the kind that you've been longing for for as long as you can remember. The rest of being loved.

And I'll tell you something. THEN you will start to bear fruit. How? Because you will be abiding in Him. By being loved by Him, on a continual basis, you will be at such peace and rest and freedom, that it will blow your family and friends away. You will bear fruit without even having to think about it. You will bear fruit naturally, without even having to try. It'll just come pouring out of you. Real fruit. Real love, real joy, real patience, real kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control etc. Real. with no effort involved. Uncontrived, unforced. You will bear fruit in your sleep. Cause He says He gives to his beloved in their sleep. I have news for you. YOU ARE His beloved!!

Jesus said,"Come to ME, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and you will find rest for your souls." He didn't say, "Work hard, and you will find rest for your souls." He didn't say, "Try Harder, and hopefully you can find rest for your souls, maybe..." He said to go to Him. A relationship. Faith only works through love, and love, as stated in my previous post, can only be found in a relationship.

Jesus also said, " The road is narrow, and the way small that leads to life, and few are those that find it."

I believe that what He meant by this is that the way to life is to be loved, by Him, in a relationship with Him, and all your faith will work after that, in which you'll love everybody in your world. You won't be able to help it or stop it. So many people misinterpret this scripture, and because of our faulty wiring, given to us from a sinful, screwed up, backwards world, think that it means that we have to try even that much harder in order to find life. But from my experience, having been on this planet for thirty five years now, (almost thirty six), and seeing the world around me, I don't see mostly people who are letting themselves be loved in humility. I see people, christian and non, who are acting on pride, born of fear, trying to do it on their own. Trying to desperately make up for this lack of love, which, if we would only allow it in, would lead us straight to life.