Originally posted on Facebook on Tuesday, November 21, 2023.

I think, therefore I am.

I am loved, therefore I live, which is greater.

Think about it. If we were on this planet alone, all we could do is experience: feel with our five senses, think, know and change the location to do it all again.

This is how I once "lived", just going from one experience to another in an attempt to feel but remained numb, past feeling. This is how we can be animated but not alive -the walking dead.

But to be known and loved by just one other person, changes merely existing and experiencing to living and flourishing.

"For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known."
—1 Corinthians 13:12 (The love chapter)

A well established fact is isolation kills. Satan knows this and has sought to do it from the beginning.

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,"
—Romans 1:18

God's wrath about sin is not because He's uptight, but because of the death it causes.

Lies block love.

But, Jesus came so that we could have life and life more abundantly (John 10:10), which He defines as knowing God and the one whom He sent (John 17:3) because it establishes this truth: God loves you (John 3:16).

For this reason, Jesus has come to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), the love blocking lie.

This is the mission of every believer born into this world, having received life in Christ.

My entire purpose in living is what I've seen in my Lord and elder brother Jesus Christ: to make the love of God real to you.

#perfectourlove