Every bird needs two wings to fly. Every boat needs two oars to row. Every family needs a mom and a dad to function by design. Every one of us needs two legs to walk; two hands to clap; two ears to hear; two eyes to see. If one is missing we are handicapped. We learn to function with only one, but the design of God was always two.

Two animals of each kind were brought into Noah’s ark; two people were created in the Garden of Eden; the Bible says on the testimony of two witnesses something is established. There are two scales for measuring weights. Oh the power of two.

When there are two there is balance, there is authority, there is power, there is protection, there is maturity. If we live only one sided, we miss the maturity that comes from hearing, doing, the other side.

This morning the Holy Spirit was speaking to me about how we love to be forgiven but we struggle to forgive. We love for people to forget our mistakes, but we don’t want to forget the mistakes of others. We love to receive but we struggle to give. We love to be served, but we don’t want to serve.

If we are going to mature as believers, we have got to stop being so one sided. We must not only receive all Jesus has done for us, we must become like Jesus in the way we treat others. We cannot just want to be loved but not love. We must move from receiving the word of God to doing the word of God.

James 1 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”

We deceive ourselves if we think we can receive from God and not become like God. This kingdom is a love God and love people kingdom. It is a receive from God and give like God kingdom. It is not okay to expect something from God, but you are not willing to be like God when it comes to others. Selah. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org