God has always been God because He determined before the foundation of
the world to create all things according to His attributes. Everything
that we view has the visible stamp of Gods character on it. In other
words when God designed all things He made it perfectly consistent in
His purpose from its beginning to its end. If anything is out of order
or independent of Gods desire then we cannot trust His spoken word. The
unity of creation is the strength of Gods covenant language. Anytime we
introduce and opposition that is independent of Gods creation and
recreation then we embrace doubt in Gods character. This is why we must
embrace total unity because the things the Maker... makes are perfectly
ordered in the strength of His independent decision to bless or curse.
This
voice of blessing or cursing is logic that creates a pure design of
justice for God to rule over His creation. There is no man who can
escape the call of God. There is no man no matter what station that he
has in life who can oppose Gods just call. As God stands over His
creation as the absolute governor of the earth so His call of blessing
and cursing are yea and amen.
The danger for man is to devise
his own scheme. Because man does not seek God then he says in his heart
"Where is your God?" Man in his natural state is alienated from God and
desires to be his own god. Man thinks that he can obtain blessing
outside of Gods authority as Governor. The bible says that all of mans
work is done in this cursed state. The eternal process of death... that
being that all that man plans in this life will come to nothing. A man
is not fulfilled by the scope of his work but by the work that God does
on mans heart. The reason is that all of mans desires tho they look
noble will come to nothing.
Because of Adams sin man was cursed
with being in a state of darkness and loneliness. This curse is like a
disease. Its as if a person who was born learned that he had an
incurable disease and he had only a short time to live. This man no
matter what efforts he took to be healed could not change this
experience of hopelessness and pain. But in this case of being cursed by
sin man never thinks he has an incurable disease. Instead he is a law
unto himself.
When a man is a law unto himself , he devises his
plans to spread this disease to the whole human race. In other words a
man who is alienated from God devises plans that are threatening to Gods
law. A man who is cursed has a disease that prevents him from doing
good for the rite reasons. It is impossible for him to think a thought
that is designed for the glory of God. The view of himself and the
creation has been darkened. The curse has limited him to view himself as
his own god. Everything he does is motivated to control everyone around
him.
You must understand that the bible describes this process
of death in the most obnoxious way. It is worse than we could ever
imagine because it is from Gods view. But when we understand how
helpless the world has become it buttresses our dependence upon God.
Gods description of the cursed earth teaches us that we are completely
unable. It teaches us that everything that comes into our lives is
spoken in existence as we understand Gods justice to be according to His
spoken curses or blessings. This is why ive been saying that salvation
is so much greater than we could imagine and the process of death that
man is under is far worse than we could imagine.
No comments:
Post a Comment