That We Might See Perfection!
I was sitting on the back porch this morning smoking a cigarette thinking about how perfect God’s creation is. Some folks struggle with that idea because they are so stuck in a mindset that is based on "getting good". The reality for each of us is found in knowing we are his perfect creation and that can not be threatened by anything in this world. You may ask, "Why then is there so much chaos in this world?" Well, for me the answer is simple. God allowed us to experience the illusion of imperfection in order that we might fully realize our actual perfection. Think about the only warning he gave to the first human beings.
Gen 2:15-17 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
From the time I was a young man all I have ever seen out of religion is a constant diet of Good & Evil fruit. Christians especially have been taught to accuse and excuse. They accuse others and excuse themselves. Our whole society is plagued with this type of thinking that all stems from the diet of Good & Evil. The amazing thing is that when you give up that diet and begin eating of the tree of life a peace comes because reality starts to come into focus. You see yourself as God actually made you; PERFECT, and this allows you to see others the same way. All of a sudden your heart is filled with the fruit of a perfect spirit and what is left is the following.
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
I am certain that eventually God will show every human that has ever taken the journey the reality of who they really are, but until that time my only goal is to continue seeing, feeling, and experiencing the perfect LOVE of God.
“Christians especially have been taught to accuse and excuse. They accuse others and excuse themselves.”
That says it so well and it is so true. I know I have been guilty of that and still am at times as it’s something that has been patterned into most of us through religion for years and years. I thank God He is showing me and leading me away from such as that. It is death to eat out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but life when we see the “Tree of Life” and feast on there.
Cliff it sure does the heart and mind good when God opens your eyes of our heart to see the truth. Cliff I truly thank God for you and your family you have truly blessed my heart and mind beyond words.
Love you brother and give a big hug to your wife and all the family.
Love in Christ Dan
Wonderful thoughts, Cliff!
It reminds me of something I often used to say (shortly after I was pushed out of organized religion)… “Traditional Christianity teaches us to see evil and fight against it, but by the grace of God, I choose to see good and embrace it.”
Such a simple change in my thinking changed my life so dramatically. Surely God is in this!
Roy, Dan, & Bruce, All great thougts. Isn’t grace AMAZING?
You are so right Cliff. It is the accusing and excusing that exposes the hypocrisy of so much of modern Christian religious thinking and causes the non-religious to reject this false image of the Savior.
Right on!. Being “good” is the deception. God through Christ reveals the perfection that is (to paraphrase Nietzsche) beyond good and evil.