(by Chis Musgrove of Future Now)
As I began to meditate on John 3:16 one day, I saw something I had never seen before. The Holy Spirit led me to the word "gave" and actually had me say, "For God so loved He gave”, and I repeated it several times. I realized (got revelation) that God loved us so much He did something. Gave is the past tense of the verb
give, which is an action verb. God took action and He gave because of his love for us (the world). God is a giver. When you join His family by being born again (the new birth), you’ll grow and develop into a giver. The devil and his family (the world) are selfish, prideful, takers and are full of wanting.
John 10:10 says, "The thief (Satan or devil) has come to steal, kill, and to destroy, but Jesus said "I have come that you might have life, and have it more abundantly.'"
I John 2:16 in the Message Bible says that practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from Him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever
does what God wants is set for eternity.
God loved this wanting world so much that He gave Jesus. He loved us to the point of sowing His best and only seed, His only Son, because loving and giving is His nature. That is who He is. When you are translated from the Kingdom of darkness (the devil and the world), into the kingdom of light and love (the family of
God), you get on the giving side. You begin to grow and develop into the same loving and giving nature of your heavenly Father!
Ephesians 5:1 says, “Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children.”
Every day we must go out into the world and allow people to see the nature of God at work in His children. That is how you bring the life of God into a situation.
Get on the giving side today!
