Mercy, Grace, Truth, and Love It's EASY! Be Righteousness It's Who You Are!

I wrote this as a personal revelation Holy Spirit is speaking to me and making real to me. I hope this encourages you, sharpens you, and edifies you! You are loved Beloved so allow yourself to be loved!

When one is convinced, persuaded, or confident of something it means they truly believe it and it will reflect in their actions. If someone doesn't know better, they don't behave better. Give yourself and others mercy, grace, and love because Papa God did through Jesus.

Every sin is a willful choice or action, Jesus died and in His mercy, grace, and love He willfully justified us by His blood and became sin so we might become the righteousness of God to all who believe!

So, accept the fact you are a new creation, receive His mercy grace and love and extend it towards yourself and THEN others like you would yourself. If you truly were convinced, or believed, or knew better you would automatically behave better. Now allow yourself to be convinced of better, taste and see that the Lord is good (Psa 34:8) and you will pull a 180 effortlessly.

He did say His goodness leads us to repentance I guess I'm crazy enough to say "Ok cool, so be it, bring it on and I'll see your goodness and raise ya with joy!"

Romans 2:1-4 "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth (Jesus is the way, the TRUTH and the life). So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?"

When you think about God's judgment it should be based on truth, and Jesus said He is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Jesus said Himself that He didn't come to condemn the world but that through Him we would be saved (John 3:17)! The Father judges no one, but entrusted judgment to the Son (John 5:22). How is judgment taken care of?

2 Cor 5:21 "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

Romans 6:18 "You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness."

2 Cor 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he IS a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

Galatians 6:14-15 "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation."

John 1:14&17 "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."

See, Jesus is being made flesh in us. He didn't come to condemn the world but that through Him they would be saved so wherever we go He comes in the world not to condemn but so that through the living witness and testimony of Him in our lives they will know Him and be saved! They know Him by how we receive Him and be like Him towards ourselves and them. To the extent we receive His mercy, grace, truth and love is the extent we extend this towards ourselves and THEN we can extend mercy, grace, truth, and love to others. It's grace and truth when His word has become flesh in us and we receive it for ourselves first in Jesus, and our minds go "Whoa, hello where have you been all my life" and does a 180 effortlessly and by exercising this at home we then can easily extend the same to others!

Matt 22:37-39 "Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the FIRST and greatest commandment. And the second is LIKE it (great commission): 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

The mercy, grace and love of God is given freely, at His expense not ours. We can only love Him back with the love He gave us. Much like a kid that is given money from their parents to buy them something for a birthday or for Christmas. We love because He first loved us!

1 John 4:19 "We love because he FIRST loved us."

When the great commission is put over the first commandment you are fearfully trying to earn the love of the Father and you'll experience performance anxiety. When the first commandment is put above 1 John 4:19- the receiving of His love, you are trying to earn His love for yourself and you'll condemn yourself easily.

See the new creation that you are is rooted and grounded in love (Eph 3:16-19), and your foundation is Jesus.

Matthew 16:16-19 "Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock (What rock/foundation? Jesus) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

Romans 3:20-24 "Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

Just receive His righteousness, mercy, grace, truth and love like the gift it is in Jesus! Just believe, meditate on that truth let it become larger than the lie and ask Papa God to speak to your soul much like David did (Psa 35:3 ....Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."), let Him show you and make Himself known to you both in the word and in your life. Taste and see that He is truly good!

1 Cor 1:30 "It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption."

Romans 5:17 "For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ."

Isaiah 62:2-5 "The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow. You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God. No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married. As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you."

Phil 1:9-11 "And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ--to the glory and praise of God."

Ephesians 1:3-6 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves."

You are accepted in the beloved, so be loved, beloved!

*****Just to clarify, on the "judgment" part I'm referring to His attitude towards sin and towards us I'm not talking about the day of judgment. Having Jesus' attitude towards sin and towards ourselves and others is having the Father's judgment of others. *****

 I heard over and over in my Spirit "Taste and see", Adam tasted and saw his nakedness, many are tasting and seeing many different things in this world and it is producing nakedness, but when you taste and see in this new covenant, this precious body and blood of Jesus, you see you are robed in righteousness as a son, or daughter of God almighty who set His affections on you. Who saw your worth and gave His best, His Son Jesus, and this same gift is for the world. For God, our Papa God so loved the world He gave us Jesus.

The most powerful act in all of Christianity is love. It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross, He could have called angels to get Him down. It was love. Love is not weak, love takes the bullet for someone you love. It is not crazy, it just hopes the best. Love is more than a sensation it is adoration expressed towards the one you love. He demonstrated His love in that He died for us while we were still sinners (Rom 5:8). Be loved, Beloved He thinks you were worth it all!