When you live above fear, it becomes a weapon in your hand and you drive it into the heart of your enemy.
~ Graham Cooke
By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
~ from the Beloved Apostle, John in 1 John 4
There is, beloved, an epic truth in the Word.
Love wins.
Love has already won.
Death is beaten.
Eternity is now.
He, the Flame which breathed the stars, is at work within us.
Love is real, and it is the power to heal and give and sacrifice and share and grow and change and shout and sing and dance and pray and wait and conquer.
Love drives away fear. But Love goes even further. Love puts fear on its head. The voice of fear is a liar and hates the Light and Power which are inherent in Love. Fear and Love cannot coexist, and Love always is victorious over the darkness of doubt and evil and punishment. So then, Love becomes a definite problem for evil.
And once those of us filled with the One who is Love begin to understand who we are, we become a most definite enigma for that which was trying to confuse us. We do, as Tozer put it so aptly, talk back to the devil.
As the liar reminds us of our past, we tell him of his future.
As he whispers “did G_d really say?,” we thunder back, “It is Written!”
As he tempts us to look at the curves and bright and shiny bits of this fallen world, we can say “G_d is better!”
As our bodies feel the weight and drag of physical fatigue, we simply wait and mount up on the wings of the eagles He sends our way.
As we see our earthly supplies dwindle, we have learned to laugh at the prospect that the well will run dry or the storehouse of G_d’s goodness towards us will be empty.
As the demons scream their hate, we simply in surrender to the Loving command of our Loving LORD, resist the noise – and the imp must scurry away. And on the days our Captain commands, we cast them into the abyss.
Can we see it? Love is not a feeling. Love is not an attitude. Love is not a verb. Love is not just a state of being. Love is a Being. G_d is Love. And this same Love wants to Live His Life in us and through us. And in us yielding to this Love, our lives become super-saturated with the Person who is Three – and held in One-ness by the Love that is the essence of Who He was, and is, and is to come. And once this Love takes hold in us, fear becomes simply laughable.
It simply does not matter how much the devil jumps up and says ‘boo!’ Love wins. Love has won us, and fear is no longer a viable contender in our lives. For the One in whom we live and move and have our being has no time for such a waste of time.
Beloved, this is our prime directive. We are to Live as though we are Loved the way He already Loves us! What if we simply started following this one simple order?!?!
