2 Cor 5:14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised. 16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

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I judge because I judge myself. I am judged because I judge.

I used to look with human eyes.  BUT something is changing in me.

Now I am controlled by something greater.
A love that is all controlling because it is all freeing.
A love that is all consuming because it is all releasing.
Jesus is altogether lovely.

All of him died for all of us...so we should no longer live the same way.

We used to feel judged.
We used to judge.
We used to look at the outward.

What if FROM NOW ON...

we loved
we loved
we loved

Because...

We are loved
We are loved
We are loved

From now on.

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^{Matthew 22:34}Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. ³⁵One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:

 ³⁶"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" ³⁷Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'^{[b] 38}This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'^{[c] 40}All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

||||||||||||||I sometimes wonder why I always complicate things.  My world and my emotions seem to be in a vicious cycle of confusion to clarity back to confusion.  I would like to say that as I write this first blog that I have figured everything out and that my life makes sense however this is not the case.  I am in a perpetual tension of faith and doubt, life and death, flesh and spirit, joy and sorrow, laughter and crying and a whole lot of other opposites.

This is the reality of my life, not sure if you can relate...

I tend to hang my future, my thoughts, my emotions and choices on things that cannot handle the weight of them and ultimately let me down everytime.

We all would like a more simple life, one filled with peace...I mean real peace not just the notion of it.

Jesus silenced the self righteous.

Then he silenced my fears.

Joshua....just do two simple things, love me and love people.  All the rest of that other stuff hangs on this.

Easy.

Revolutionary.

Life altering.

Now take a deep breath and live it.

No ifs ands or buts.

It is that simple.

As I was about to speak in Singapore this weekend I felt a voice in my heart say clear as day...

"Trust me Joshua"

It was the most simple and clear thing I have heard in a long time.

This is God.

Simple, clear, love, truth, joy, peace...

So let us not hang our thoughts, lives, decisions on anything else.

Ask yourself does this choice love God and love people?

Does this thought love God and love others as I love myself?

IT ALL HANGS ON THIS....LOVE

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What does life really hang on?  What is holding all this beautiful mess together?

This blog will endeavour to discover what this life hangs on...while having some fun at the same time.

+jk