The LOVE of CHRIST

Children of GOD I want to bring you words of encouragement,transformation and love in this blog and I pray this one does that. Since being Born Again some 23+ years ago the words of Jesus Christ on the Cross to His Father have always changed me and brought me to a higher level of LIFE. When Jesus said "Father Forgive them for they know not what they do" the love the faith the hope and the Extra-dimensionality of those words stop me dead in my tracks and transform me. Jesus the perfect, the sinless, the guiltless and all powerful prayed for forgiveness to be given to His false accusers, to His executioners, to His betrayers, and to all humanity who allowed this to happen and for whom it was happening for. He who could have called down 72,000 Angels to protect Him and revenge Him chose to LOVE, He WILLED to Love and it changed the world. You and I right now would not be here had Jesus chose NOT to Love.
Again while walking my dogs, The Father touched my heart that I need to love like that and He has empowered me and you to be able to do so. HE has placed in our Hearts the ONE who can forgive like that. Jesus Christ in you still WILLS to Love like that but now through You! When I think of my natural reaction to even trivial things I see the gap between my flesh and the True GOD. This brought to mind what Paul said and the transformation available to all of us, he said " I die daily." Dying to SELF, what a concept! Not denying yourself a cookie or fasting or acting nice. No this has nothing to do with the works of the Flesh or denying the flesh that is FUTILE. This is about WILLING to be like GOD. WILLING to deny your revenge and rights and Forgive and let the Power and Love of GOD in you transform the world and people around you.
I will give you a small and seemingly insignificant incident that happened today. While walking my dogs this morning I headed up a hill and saw the house of a person who I felt had snubbed me by disregarding my Hello's and Good Mornings. Well, GOD was dealing with me about forgiveness so I said "Father I forgive them I forgive them all and give them all to you I choose to Love." That's all and on the way down the hill there was the neighbor and actually looking for me. I said "Good Morning" and we had a simple but deep discussion and connection that lead to an instant friendship. This may seem small but to me its Miraculous its the Abundant Life it is what we are here for, to bring the KINGDOM to earth to people.
The SELF even though dead (we are crucified with Christ we died and HE now lives in us) it is always there residing in the corpse we carry around but it is dead and has no authority. We have to WILL to choose to Love and to be like Christ and to allow HIM to reign and love over and through us. Doing this is not only GOD's will but healing, transformational and miraculous for us and the people around us. The LOVE of Christ is so unbelievably powerful NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. He who can forgive the unforgivable LIVES in you, He loves you and has forgiven you..He who has been forgiven much LOVES much...you have been forgiven far more than you can ever imagine let us now Choose to Love beyond imagine..let us be Fools for Christ to love beyond imagine and let go and let GOD..
Father forgive them for they know not what they do!...That is the power of Christ in you. It certainly looked like they knew what they were doing. Heck they conspired to do what they were doing! They planned they plotted and forced the situation to manifest and yet Jesus sees them differently. He sees from the beginning to the end He knows all the root causes and consequences of every thought and action. This is why His judgements are just and true and HE chooses to love! How much more we who do not know these things and more importantly we have been commanded to LOVE by the Lover of our Souls.
The more we know and trust GOD the more we can love or let love love through us..GOD is Love, Jesus is GOD. Let Him Love you and Love through you. Choose to love, choose to be loved, choose to seek HIM and know HIM, choose to change and be transformed so you can be a source of change and transformation in and to this world. It starts with the will do this, the very will Jesus laid down at the feet of His Father in the Garden of Gethsemane, we must lay down our will and take up His Glorious Incorruptible and Transcendent will. This can only happen as we commune and walk continuously with Him in Spirit and Truth. Blessings to you and power and love. You have the mind of Christ and you can do ALL things through HIM who strengthens you. PTL.....JB