Be

Let's not act lets be. What do I mean by this? I think that many times we spend time in our life acting the part of Christian, never really being Christian. We act kind, loving, nice, and caring but never really are that way. When we are alone we are angry at the driver that is not driving the way we think that they should, the waiter that does not serve us the way we think they should, or we get angry with our family. We try to live these virtues by living out rules and not breaking them. Really we should be living and being these virtues. There are no rules to make us, or anyone else live them out. We must be willing to change our thoughts and lives so that we actually become kind, loving, nice, and caring. This is a much deeper issue than just acting and trying, this is about becoming and being.

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way. Colossians 3:13-15

We need to dress in what God has given us. This is more than just acting and following rules, this implies a way of being. We are to be as Christ is, we are to think and act like God as much as we can. Christ came to show us how to bring heaven to earth. How do we do that? Christ came to teach us how to be like him, not through rules, but through a changed heart. Imagine a place where there are no rules to keep people in check, but that people live out of who are are, out of a way of being that requires them to not worry about rules. You can live in this freedom. When you come to be loving, kind and caring there is freedom.

Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We're free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him. 2 Corinthians 3:16-17

Be free today. Learn to be love and kindness to others. Begin to do things because your have changed your thoughts and your heart, not because following the rules will change your heart. Connect to the God who came in flesh and become love.

Namaste'