It's the heart that pumps the blood. Without the heart to pump it - the blood is useless. It's the same for the Body of Christ. If we don't surrender our hearts to God, if we don't love him with our hearts (love resides in the heart, not the mind), then the blood of Jesus is useless to us. We may claim the Blood as the atonement for our sins but our hearts must be transformed by His abiding presence within us - our hearts must be fully given to Him, for the blood to keep us alive. Our hearts beating for Him cause His blood to cleanse us daily of sin's impurities. Jesus testified that many honor Him with their lips but their hearts are far from Him. He also testified that many will claim they are His servants, prophesying in His name, caring for the poor and strangers, all in His name, all without ever having known Him. I believe these are people who only know of Jesus as an intellectual concept in their minds but never surrender their hearts to Him, they never knew him heart to heart! He's given his heart to us, he loves us with all his heart, can we do any less for Him? Deep calls out to deep. Heart cries out to heart. His heart is calling out to ours - let's become one....
"Arise my love, my fair one, and come away"
"I sleep but my heart waketh, it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying OPEN TO ME"
"Love is strong as death"
"Make haste my beloved"

What if my father was the richest man in the world, and he gave all his wealth to me. What if I met someone so poor they would literally die without help. Food, shelter, etc. What kind of human being would I be if I stood by and watched them die, doing nothing?
That's exactly how it is when a Holy Spirit filled, Christ following, Father loving, faithful believer meets an unredeemed sinner. Our Father which art in Heaven, has wealth unimaginable - he is so wealthy He can purchase our souls and keep us from suffering eternal damnation.
I'm actually one of His sons, I know Him personally and I can have adoption papers drawn up for you, if you'd like to become a part of His family too. He's so wealthy, He can adopt literally everyone on earth and take good care of them all. But you must agree to His terms of adoption. Love him and obey him. It's that simple.
Yes, if I selfishly kept this knowledge to myself - what kind of man would that make me? If I meet you, and realize you have no idea who your real father is, if I know you are so poor you cannot purchase eternal food and drink, to revive your spirit and save your soul, if I see you are a slave who cannot afford to buy their freedom, and I have the wealth needed to save you and set you free, and I do nothing, what kind of man would that make me?

I alternate between loving myself and hating myself. Someday's I'm quite happy with who I am. Others, I can't stand myself. I despise the man of sin and love the man of God. I wish I could be the best person I can be, every moment of every day but I fail far too often. I find myself relating to Paul more and more these days. I find myself understanding his discourse in Romans 7 - "For what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I", "For to will is present with me". I want to do whats right, I desire to be a good and faithful son for my Holy Father "but how to perform that which is good I find not, for the good that I would do I do not but the evil which I would not, that I do".
Can anyone else relate to this? This life long struggle is one that I hate - I know that if I "walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit" I can crucify "the wretched man that I am" but the doing of it can be so difficult, yet these days I find the Spirit humbly holding my hand, seeking my company, willing to slow down and wait for me and lifting me when I fall - I'm actually losing sight of who I was - who I was is no longer important to me. "Chris Tripp" is somebody I used to know, now I call myself "that disciple who Jesus loves" - this is who I am, and who I wish to be known as from now on. In all seriousness, my old man is not important anymore, my old identity is dead. I am dead to who I was, I mean, I'd rather just be known as someone Jesus loves here on earth and truth be told, I'd love to be known in Heaven as someone who loves Jesus. I'd like a few angels hanging out in heaven to point to me and say "that's the disciple who loves Jesus". Selah. 

We all like to confess, us Christians that is, that "nothing is impossible for God". We're quite proud of this confession - we like to brag about our God, and rightly so, how mighty, how powerful He is (we have no idea). We see it as faith on our part when we declare to God "nothing is impossible for you". The truth is, it takes no faith at all to declare our God's omnipotence. It may take belief but it requires no faith to declare the awesomeness of God. Sure He can do the impossible, of course there's nothing He can't do but look at the scripture more closely - MT:19:26, Jesus is speaking, "with men this is impossible but with God all things are possible". He did not say God can do anything. He was not declaring God's awesomeness, He is speaking to us, telling us - WE can do "all things WITH God". If we align ourselves with men (remember, all religions, including Christianity, are founded by and propagated by, men), we cannot do the impossible, for religion has no power from God, only glory from man, but with God, WE can do the impossible, just as Jesus, the man, did. Essentially He's saying we can partner with Him, co-labor with Him to do the impossible, for the word impossible exists only for faithless, godless humanity.....it does not exist in Heaven, in eternity. Just as Jesus the man did that which is routine in Heaven, showing us it can become routine here on earth too, so can we. Jesus is also speaking of Salvation, for it is impossible for man to save himself, it is done "with God" or not at all. We must continually remind ourselves - "I can DO all things THROUGH Christ (with Christ, in Christ)".....Amen. 

Some songs strike a chord
deep within our souls.
Some songs grip our hearts
and they won't let go.
Some songs can still be heard
long after they've entered our ears.
Some songs           quite easily
move us to tears.
There are songs we measure our lives with,
like a certain smell or a first kiss,
they invoke memories of days gone by,
happy days or sad - can each bring a tear to our eye -
like Amy Grant's "Stay for Awhile"
or "Good riddance - Time of your Life" by Green Day.
Songs from spirit to spirit hold the deepest sway,
songs that rise up from deep within our hearts,
not just our minds,
have the greatest impact on our lives......