Still Human

What I sense Father saying through this brother to me is my heart's cry!

Rich

The great marvel of the Incarnation slips into ordinary childhood's life; the great marvel of the Transfiguration vanishes in the devil-possessed valley; the glory of the Resurrection descends into a breakfast on the sea-shore. This is not an anti-climax, but a great revelation of God.

The tendency is to look for the marvelous in our experience; we mistake the sense of the heroic for being heroes. It is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, but another thing to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us. If we do not want medieval haloes, we want something that will make people say - What a wonderful man of prayer he is! What a pious devoted woman she is! If you are rightly devoted to the Lord Jesus, you have reached the sublime height where no one ever thinks of noticing you, all that is noticed is that the power of God comes through you all the time.

Oh, I have had a wonderful call from God! It takes Almighty God Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty to the glory of God. It takes God's Spirit in us to make us so absolutely humanly His that we are utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

Matrix Symbiosis (Hijacked)

I’m elucidating the possibility that we have been wired innately as if in our actual DNA, our spiritual imprinting was to establish a foundation within us for dependency. As a plant is dependent upon water for its existence, so we were created and that amplified much more so in the re-birthing for dependency.

Hidden from all sight deep within us there has been an invasion. When man fell in the garden, there was (imo) a component added to his species that was previously not there. I see it being a metaphysical component attaching itself as a symbiotic leach, and mankind becoming its host. I want to refer to this as the Matrix, and its impetus is the master of deceit and lies Satan himself, who is able to easily transforms himself into an angel of light.
Jesus knew of his hidden workings, He referred to him as the ‘father of lies', and in further conversational intercourse also said, you are of your father the devil.
In contrast for a succinct understanding Jesus speaking to the saints through Paul says; ‘You once were by nature children of wrath, sons of disobedience’.

Because of this insidious hijackers influence, apart from the transformational work of God’s grace, our mind set is fixed like a long lost image of a once alive creature completely fossilized, sometimes expressed as, ‘don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up.’
Within that mindset I see our view of Jesus sprouting, as one who has to be NICE, meek and mild not hurting a child, nonsense! Let’s explore nice in context of the donkey we want to pin this delusional tale on. click

Apart from the illumination from within our fixed union with our Father, this insidious virus will stain and permeate our thinking. No one thinks straight when it comes to the matter of truth and reality. Those words are corrupted from any true meaning because of this subversive intruder.

Has the Lion/Lamb of God been reduced to this, a quote from Christianity Today Movies re: the movie The Lion, With and the Wardrobe; ‘An artistically and spiritually safe lion for a spiritually tame (sub) culture.’

Like a splinter in my mind there is this relentless, persistent nagging that seems to be drawing me ever deeper into what Paul called God’s hidden wisdom the Mystery Gospel of good news.Please hear me on this, in no way am I referring to what happened in the early centuries of the church of the virus called Gnosticism, whereby one was elevated to a much greater spiritual and intellectual status based upon an encrypted code only available through some so called enlightened guru.

The ‘Mystery of Godliness’ will always be that, but within this mystery Father God himself is disclosing the hidden secret things with a passion to those foolish enough to trust Him in this redemptive restoration as he applies with great relish, the caustic power of Grace.

I look forward to picking up from here again soon, as there is so much more on my heart to share, but until then.

Rich