Love Is Resident In You....God Wants You To Live From The Inside Out.....

Where is the peace that you have been seeking?   You have been looking to friends, to family, to your job......but have you looked to God?   Have you sought His peace through His word?    His word is a book of promises to YOU.    He has promised you the oil of joy for your sadness.   He has promised you beauty for your ashes.    He has promised  you peace in the midst of the storm.    Yet  you still look elsewhere for the things that you need to make your life better.    Not understanding that the one thing that you need....dwells on the inside of  you.   His word.   His life.  His love.   It is all resident on the inside of you.  

When something is resident....it dwells.   It stays.    It doesn't move from one place to another.    We try to move.   We are constantly switching positions.   Constantly changing our minds about everything we do.   But God is unshakable.  He is unmovable.   He doesn't change His mind about us.   He doesn't back off what He has already said.  So no matter how much we move or we change....He is still there.  

What we have to do is to stop seeking our peace, our love, our joy in other people.    We have to look within and recognize the God within us.   God wants us to be the examples of His love.   He wants us to be the examples of His joy.   He wants us to the examples of His peace.   He wants our lives to represent who He is.   He wants our lives to be the thing that helps someone else through their struggle for joy.   Their struggle for love.   Their struggle for peace.   He want us to help them to recognize that what they see in us also resides on the inside of them.    Familiarity.   Resemblance.   Sometimes when you see an attribute in someone else, you begin to notice that you too have those attributes.   You too have those desires.   You too can walk it out and live it out.  

Looking for love within.   People always say that you can't truly love someone else until you love yourself.   The love that we need to recognize within us is God's love.   Until you truly understand God's love in you and you love God for who He is to you.  You can't truly love someone else uncompromisingly.    The love of God in you is what must touch and pull out the love of God in others.   It all goes back to living from the inside out.    You have to love from the inside out.   Understanding the love (remember God is love) that dwells on the inside of you and pouring it out on others.  In other words....understanding that God lives on the inside of you.....living in who God is.......and pouring out the God (the love) in you to others.  

Worship For Today....

"You Are God Alone"

"Ministered By Phillips, Craig, & Dean"