Love Trumps Need - Every Time

This is a small excerpt from the new book I am writing. There are lots of stories and funny stuff in the book... just in case you are wondering. But this is one of the core revelations and something God has been working so perfectly in Karen and I over the last years and more in depth in the last months. Its really good, but probably wont make you laugh...

Love you all!

Love Trumps Need - Every Time

Need is what defines life here on planet earth. In fact, time itself is the father of need. The universe was created as finite. Meaning there is a beginning and an end. In a finite reality, need is the principle upon which time exists, it’s the skeleton upon which reality hangs.

Need is the final singular truth by which our world operates. Humanity exists inside the confines of need. You could say that we are slaves to need. Need is the foundational structure of our DNA. It’s the defining core value of our very existence.

Need is with us when we wake and when we sleep. And it’s not an abstract idea. It’s probably the most real thing many of us know. It’s an absolute. It’s a physical reality woven into the very fabric of our planet. We need air to breathe; we need gravity to keep us from floating away. We need food to sustain our bodies. We need clothes and shelter. We need money to buy clothes and shelter. We need jobs to make money so we can buy clothes and shelter. We need a good economy to provide jobs…

Need seems to be the commodity of our very existence. We trade in the currency of need. It’s the substance that we are made of. We are one big walking, talking, breathing need.

Creation took its first breath in the reality of need. It’s not a bad thing, its actually beautiful if seen properly - through the eyes of the Creator. God created need. He created a finite reality in which men and women dwell. Then God did something odd and absolutely amazing, he put eternal spirits in finite bodies. He made humankind in His image. He breathed His Spirit, His Neuma in us.

Now here is a crazy thought, while need is the very substance of our existence, it has no place in Gods reality. Need doesn’t exist in God. Need isn’t even in His vocabulary. Need is actually counter to the nature of God. He is the beginning and the end and everything in between and everything before and everything after. He is infinite. He is complete; he is the answer, not the question.

And after the resurrection of Jesus, God invited humanity – slaves to need, to a finite reality - to live free of need in a glorious infinite revelation – Love. The core value of our very existence was redeemed from a need-based reality to an intimate love relationship.

Before Jesus resurrection, we lived in a world where every emotion, every decision and every moment was defined by need; by what we didn’t have and needed, or what we will need later.

Then Jesus came and revealed the Father. He took all of our needs upon himself and died. He took a need-based existence to the grave where it always belonged. And upon his resurrection he introduced us to a greater revelation, intimacy with our heavenly Father, access to the infinite reality of His Kingdom of love – heaven.

Heaven operates from a different core value. Love. Everything in the Kingdom of heaven, operates, hinges and moves in love. Love and need are two very different realities and Love trumps need - every time.

Its like this, we are living in two realities, but one is greater than the other. The first reality is the one we are often the most aware of. The one in which we can use words like starving, or desperate, or need. But there is a greater reality in which those words are forever settled.

Not only does need not exist within the nature of God, it doesn’t exist in heaven. You won’t need to eat there, and if you do, you won’t need money to buy food, and if you do, you can just use the gold that comes from the paving stones out in the street.

You won’t need to be healed in heaven; there is no sickness there. You won’t need to feel loved there, you will know and be love. You wont have any questions about why you exist there, the manifest Glory of God will make it very clear.

What’s awesome is that need has absolutely nothing to do with God. He is Love and Love is good – always. And not good like a nice sweater on a cold day, but good like grace and mercy and peace and joy, eternally good. A good that will always win against bad – has in fact already won. He is love and His very nature settles any and every issue of need – absolutely, to infinity and beyond.