I've been thinking about the reality of God today. Why do I have a sure foundation I can trust in? Why do I have peace that I don't understand. Why can everything seem to get confusing, but my heart is still happy? I read this today in Beth Moore's Breaking Free Bible study that gives me some understanding.

Either Christ can satisfy us and meet our deepest needs, or God's Word is deceptive. In the days before I began to enjoy the fullness of Christ, I somehow knew God's Word was true and that the problem rested with me; but, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I served Him. I even had a love for Him, however immature, but I still fought an emptiness that kept me looking for love and acceptance in all the wrong places.
Never once in my youth did I hear clear teaching about the Spirit-filled life. Perhaps this is the reason why I refuse to shut up about it now. Satan knows the Holy Spirit is the key to abundant, liberated life, so he has done everything in his power to cast confusion and fear around the subject. Let's boil a few things down to the basics.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. -John 4:24

God is love.Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. -1 John 4:16

God's essence or His state of existence is Spirit...Just as surely as God is Spirit, God is love. Love is not only something God does, love is something God is. God would have to stop being in order to stop loving. Again, our temptation is to humanize God, because we are limited to love as a verb. With God, love is first a noun. It's what and who He is.

God is who He is. No one can change that. I can count on Him when I can't count on anyone else. I will always have everything I need.

This is the reality I'm living in. Deep, raw, whole and full of light.

Finding fullness
Knowing peace
Giving thanks
Leaping for joy
Understanding complexities
Daring to live