The new Humanity in Christ.

Timothy — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:29:49 +0000

So lately I’ve been thinking and reading and listening about the new Creation. The Offspring of the Last Adam. The righteousness of Christ. Who we are. I’m still fighting with myself on it. It seems too good and too big to be true. And yet this is Truth

Maximus the Confessor ” Christianity is an entirely New way of being Human” Being born again is the entry point to the new creation.

Aranais ” The glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive” 2 century A.D.

Jesus didn’t come to make you religious He came to make you fully alive, and until Jesus has His way with you and through you, you are not yet fully alive. ” Brian Zahnd.

Jesus having His way with me, with my heart. It’s a strange concept I’ve been struggling with. I mean…a part me is telling God. “What do you think you are doing? I invited you in here remember”? You can’t just act like you own me. I mean that’s not the way my democratic theology works.

Can one invite a King? I say “no” . You receive a King by submitting to him. I was talking with my brother John a few months ago, I was discussing Jesus. I love talking to John. That guy doesn’t hold back any punches when it comes to thinking. I was just kind of musing and blathering on about Jesus. When I started thinking about Jesus being God. Then I started to get a sense of what the disciples encountered in conversation. Imagine you’re talking to this guy the Messiah. If he’s the Messiah, then that means he’s never wrong. So what do you do with a person who’s talking to you and He’s never wrong? No matter what your philosophies, no matter how your parents raised you. Jesus doesn’t disagree with someone. He presents the unshakable, unchanging, infallible Truth of God in every action and word. So I asked John…”what do you do with somebody like that?” His answer was profound. He simply said with the most truth I’ve heard come out of someones mouth in long time. “You can’t do anything with that except submit completely to everything that person says”

Luke 6:46 “So why do you call me ‘Lord,’ when you won’t obey me?

Not only is Jesus always right, He’s perfect and so is His will for us. He’s a perfect Father with perfect Love. It’s awesome, He’s everything we really want and everything we need. He is life and life abundantly. There is nothing wrong with the Righteousness of God. There is no oppression in perfection.

The Thief And The Promise

Timothy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:31:41 +0000

There’s this part of me that’s so content to die slowly towards forever in the counterfeit. There is a part of me that’s sensual and self seduced. A part of me that is comatose with the idea of me. This is the me I’ve produced. A seemingly self- sufficient evolving thing that cannot rid it’s self of the dirt that will one day swallow it back into the earth. I am the ultimate mockery, a slap in the face of Sovereignty. A created deity, a borrowed Idea, presented to rob from the Truth. A surrealistic anomaly of something never intended to be. A being who cannot love more than the unattainable figment of being, without Love.

There is this Godless identity, which has convinced it’s self I answer to no one. This doctrine is solely based in a singular dimensional understanding of reason. I rationalize and reason with a ration of lies. I pacify the urgency of all creation’s screaming “there is so much more than Me”. I feed myself placebos of the prerecorded in anticipation of something new. I am a hungry fool. I could easily eat anything. I have in fact consumed me.

The only thing standing in the way of progress…is poor reflection. With mirrors for windows…this house is without direction. That is the part of me that is long dead, and yet surviving. It is a vampire of sorts, sucking the life from this flesh until Kingdom- come. The very Kingdom of which King, I am denying eminence. I am the mind of the cursed. Unrenewed and without understanding. I cannot stand by settling comfortably into a paupers grave. This is the thief inside of me. This one will die with the me, and I will breath deep the confession of the one who is worthy. Who died with the thieves, but rose to victory. I shall be with Him this day as he promised me.

Surrender.

Breath

I am

New.

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The new Humanity in Christ.

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