I Believe

By Mercymann

I believe that God is Spirit.. who's nature is Unconditional love. A spirit cannot be seen or touched. This Spirit reached within and created another spirit in the same image... This new spirit was placed within a body... so he could "know" were he stopped and another living thing began... This spirit was able to "self realize" and interact with all other created things... but he felt alone.

The creator wished to express what the creator "is" to the created spirit. So just as "man" came forth from God... so God brought forth a woman from the man. Oh the joy! With this man... the woman could actually feel, touch and know the God who is unconditional love. In the same way... the man could experience the reality of God...
To enjoy this arrangement these two only had to "know" that God's Spirit was within... and choose to embrace this source of life and love.

But alas, these two were taken by the beauty of the "material world" around them... they could not relate to that which they could not see, touch or feel. The "Inside World" remained a place of mystery to them. They had only "known" all that was good.... but they chose to explore that which was not good... To do so they had to declare their "Independence" from this Spirit within... A sad choice for one created to be "dependent" on his / her very life source.

This declaration "cut off communications" to the God of the Inside World. He demonstrated this "death" and His Great Love" with a lamb... slain. This is death, pain and suffering... this that you can see in the material world is what has happened within you... But take heart. I knew this day was coming...

The couple was lovingly prevented from receiving Eternal Life. To do so would mean that this pain would continue forever. They left and multiplied. Some of their children "remembered" the God of the Inside World... most did not.

The pain and the bloodshed continued... These creatures can only seem to grasp that which they see in the material world. They can't seem to understand that all they create (little Creators) in the material world... comes from the Inside World. They sense this thirst from within... and continue to try and quench it from without.

Their beverage of choice? Other humans... drink, drink, drink... but never satisfied. And God? Oh, he was re-created by the "creatures"... after their own image and likeness. He became the "key" in their minds to "control" large groups of humans... all bowing down to the "leader"... yet the thirst remained. This god of man's imagination is the opposite of the True God. This false god is "conditional love". "IF you do well... THEN I will bless you... and IF you disappoint me, THEN I will cast you away! IF you love me... I mean really love me like I want to be loved, THEN I will love you.... in MY way and on MY terms... but IF you don't love me...THEN I will pour out my wrath and fury!!! So love me!!! Now!!! Do it!

God sent prophet after prophet to men. God's voice... calling from the "Inside World": "It's not true! I am not this way! You can't find me in the material world... Please listen to me... please.. I love you.

But man persisted to look to "man" as his god. The creator concedes to the demands of man.... And He comes... AS A MAN.... now I can relate to them from the material world... in the form that they pursue...

This man was like no other. He loved. Really loved. Unconditional Love. He did't just talk about it... He did it.... over and over. He healed, fed, laughed and loved... and taught us quite a bit about the "Inside World".

He was greatly opposed by the false god: "religion of man". He was set up... lied about to others and falsely accused. He loved. He was called the friend of sinners... and he surely was... He loved. He loved the religious as well.. He worked hard to help them to see. But they said: "We see" and remained in darkness. But He knew they didn't understand... and He loved.

They conspired against him. He washed feet. They found one to betray Him... He served this one bread and wine... to help him to remember. They beat Him nearly to death... He loved. They tortured him without mercy.... He said: "Forgive them...they don't understand" He loved.

After we threw all the hate and murder that he could... He died. He went to those who had died in the former darkness of man and showed them His hands and His feet: "See? I AM unconditional love" ...and he set them free.

On the third day... He walked out of the tomb. He went to those who loved Him and said: Now you see in the material world... all that is true. Unconditional Love is real... all powerful... all knowing I love you... unconditionally. He promised us new bodies... one's that would never die. He told us to go and wait for Holy Spirit to come... inside. He said that if we would simply return His embrace... we could abide there forever. He promised us a spring of unconditional love... flowing from our hearts to others... GO! Into all the world... show them...

The Creator is my Father and I his son. His hands are my hands... His feet are my feet... In my weakness... He is strong... and He loves... me and through me... He is with in us...and His sheep know His voice... and we walk with Him Inside.... the evidence in the material world is ...LOVE.

Oh you so loved by God! Love one another. For love is from God.... and everyone that loves is born of God.. and knows God. He that does not love... doesn't know God. God is Love.... Unconditional Love.

Christ in You!

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