Remember Your Creator
4/28/19
How many of us know our father? I know that many of the people around the
world have never known their father for one reason or another, and when the
truth is told it is more common than most of us ever imagined. The same question can be asked on a spiritual
level as well and from the looks of today’s church denominations, we can deduct
a similar percentage of those Truly knowing God. So, if we do not know who our fathers are,
then how can we ever know our true identity and the reason why we were made in
the first place? It is this topic that
many may find difficult to address but when we apply its truth to both aspects
of our lives it becomes imperative that we know our spiritual Father for it is
He who will have the final say on where we spend eternally. Church, it is time we teach the world the
Truth about our eternal Father and stop condoning the world’s loser as a father
figure.
There are many reasons as to why kids become separated
from one or both of their parents, but one of the most common and might even be
the most common separation tactic that humans have to display such a divisive
stance is divorce. Up front, I am going
to tell you that I have been divorced and I understand what this process does
to a family. It might have solved the
issues of that day but in the long run, it has had a great deal of pain that
continues to smolder within all parties involved. I know that there are countless reasons and
ways for people to divorce and in all cases, nothing returns good for at some
point in time the separation issues from a parent will rear its ugly head. We are not going to be focusing on issues
that cause this devastation to families but what it means to be separated from
your creator, more specifically being separated from your Creator. Unless we go back and understand the true
principles of Life we shall never overcome the divisive deficit that we have
fallen for so long. This process did not
start when the BCE period of time turned into the AD/CE time “began”, it had a
further back origin than this and we need to seriously take a heartfelt look at
this origin once again.
We have mentioned a few times over the past few years
just how many divorces there have been that involves personal friends of yours
and mine. Almost every day I hear people
who freely discuss a few details about their lives and each one inevitably
include divorce. How can we not suffer
consequences when divorce is rampant and so popular? How can we function not only as a single
family but as a nation as well with this type of track record? Our destructive ways have been promoted and
lived for countless amounts of time and as we continue to live in such manner
all we do is dig our hole deeper. When
division is the main goal as a means to gain control or power it can only
represent a process of forgetting. This
is exactly what occurs when parents divorce or do not even marry. There is no cohesive stability that is present
when this type of living is exonerated and/or promoted. Yet, for some reason, we have marched toward
this separation and now thrive in its wallowing. Divorce is a literal ripping apart of a
family and it is due to both sides of the marriage and union. As stated above, there are countless ways and
circumstances that lead to this process, but it does not have to be as such but
in order for the union to stay together both sides must agree to live according
to a higher standard that brought them there to this ending point.
Many believe that this divorcing process is just superficial
and that one will have better luck the next time around, but as many find out
it only occurs again and sometimes again, and each time brings more pain and
division set as a normal tradition due to the fact that so many have followed
in its footsteps. Again, God asks us how
can we know our physical creator if he is not in the picture at all times, and
more importantly, He asks us this same question when it comes to Him too. When a person’s creator is not known it only
brings forth future problems down the road for if one does not know their
origins how can they be sound on any level of their lives? You want to look at this another way? Then take a gander at the political
assassinations that are ongoing in our government alone, how many rounds of ammunition
are spent each day toward others? They
cannot be accurately numbered or measured, all the while they cry out for gun
control when they cannot even reel in their hearts, minds, and tongues. It is the same process as divorce and until
we return to God and completely live under the blood covering of Christ this
pattern shall continue to increase just as any other portion of Satan’s
destruction plan does.
Divorce separates everyone involved in the family and it
directly takes the father out of the picture.
This process allows another father to join the family and to begin
trying to direct the new setting as much as possible. He tries to bridge the gap if you wish to put
it in those terms but most of the time it only ends up in a badly constructed crossing
that most do not dare cross for fear of it collapsing as they walk across. Why is this?
What do people expect when they are already in a compromised state when
they personally try to bring the new family together? It is a tragedy when this setting occurs, for
it deepens the wounds of everyone involved and it does not solve any issues of
the first union and only establishes further division and devastation down the
road for the second family. To bring
this process and how it affects people down the road we must again return to
the Garden of Eden and take another look at Adam and Eve and how this process
of divorce and separation from our Father has led us to the point at which we
are today.
Most of us know that the fall of Adam and Eve did not occur
overnight, that their demise came over time.
With that in mind, when we examine our text of Genesis 3:4-7 once more
we can see that Eve has a direct face to face conversation with the Serpent and
he questions her about what God has spoken to them concerning the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil which she badly messes God’s command up. All it took was for the Serpent to hear the
fact that Eve added to the command for him to know she was ready to listen to
his advice and to reject God’s command.
Nowhere does it say that Adam stood up for God, his wife, or himself
either (we have discussed this earlier) which means that the level from the
time of equality with God had dropped enough for the Serpent to gain his access
to the humans. The issues had raised
enough to warrant an end to such games but Adam and Eve were too preoccupied
with the Serpent and his ideologies that they refused to address the issues
head-on. These issues festered suitably
then grew in quantity and quality so as to look to be the source of all their
problems. Ever wonder why Adam and Eve
doubted God’s Word and command? This is
it and it occurs to each and every one of us with each day we arise and go about
our daily lives. It is for this reason
alone that we do not allow our enemy any access to our lives for when we give
him an inch he shall take four thousand miles.
As time passed, Adam and Eve became weary of their job
and of their dominion for why would anyone else add to a job responsibility
unless impressions were at stake? When
Genesis 3:7 finally arrived and both Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, the consequences of the failure to deal with the
issues in the correct manner with God came to fruition and the process of
divorce from God occurred. There was no
question that God understood what was happening long before Adam and Eve took
the bite and even though God continued to allow their curiosities and issues
move forward He never once forced them to anything out of their will. Yes, it disappointed God greatly and He knew
where it would eventually take them, but God’s mercy continued to set the
standard that Adam and Eve saw every day up until Genesis 3:7. After Genesis 3:7 occurred there was no turning
back and Adam and Eve had to leave due to their failure of obeying the Law of
God; thus, the first “divorce” occurred and ever since that dreadful day
mankind has been fighting to save every inch of their hearts against an enemy
that we did not refuse to understand then and in which we totally ignore today. When Genesis 3:24 arrives, we see that Adam
and Eve had now been separated from their Father and their direct relationship
would never be as it was in the beginning.
The only way we can understand this fact is if we
remember that when God created Adam and Eve He did so in such a way where all
three of them were in equal accord. I am
not saying that they were like God or even like a god but through the way they
were created Adam and Eve were in complete unity with God on their foundational
level. It is this equality that we still
strive for today because it was built into our lives when humans were given
life for the first time, that feeling and desire have never left. Yet, as we continue to seek this unity of
ours we have already shot ourselves in the foot due to our own selfish
exaggerations when it comes to relationships.
As stated above I am not here to blame anyone for the process of this
devastating act, but God does want us to know that it is our choices to behave
in such a way to warrant these dangerous patterns. God wants us to understand that it is our
responsibility to keep the family intact and in order at all times for even the
slightest opening to our eternal enemy and our dominion and origins of Creation
will be destroyed. When this direct
contact is broken it is thus rendered stolen and according to the kingdom laws
of Satan, the spoils of victory belong to him for they were rightly attained
through ties that were given to him voluntarily. So explains the accolades that occurred in
the Garden of Eden; think about this folks.
In times past, divorces were a taboo subject and many
people did not even speak about that period of time in their lives,
understandably so. But as history
proceeded and current times approached this subject became easier to talk about
and now, some people brag about their divorces and consider them to be a
positive issue. All in all, this process
of division harms the individual and the unity between couples and families. When Adam and Eve were living in the Garden
of Eden it was the perfect setting with the perfect union possible, a perfect
condition created by the one and only perfect and eternal Father. Of course, this was the perfect setup for
Satan to destroy but God had the confidence of His Creations to resist such
offers through the process of choice.
How could anyone have a better knowledge of one another than what Adam,
Eve and God had? It is this example
that Satan saw from the beginning and it is this same example that he sees with
us today. It is our job to see the
tricks that he presents to us and to resist them on the spiritual level first
and then on the physical. What Eve
stated to the Serpent was not just words but it came from her heart which means
that it was on the spiritual aspect of her existence. The truth about the tree was not just the
physical alone, God did not care about the tree itself but it was the will of
the human that He wanted pure through obedience and it is this aspect, the
spiritual that our will longs to obey.
Adam and Eve had a standard that was presented to them
upon their Creation and it was one that could not falter on any level because
it was God who supplied the standard. As
stated many times before, it was the choice of Adam and Eve to lower the standard
of their lives and not God and this dropping of the bar could not be ignored
for if God had said it was okay and He chose to look away, then Satan would
have legal grounds to claim his position back in Heaven and declare God a
fraud. From the moment Adam and Eve made
that choice to disobey, the world has taken this lowering standard and ran with
its consequences. Before sin, Adam and
Eve did not know separation or any part of a permanent division, but they did
have the choice to make when it came time for decisions to be completed. Adam and Eve knew each other intimately and
along with God being on the same plane they had their fortunes to themselves
for God was at the center of all their lives.
It is not difficult for us to see the world and to think
that its way of life is chaotic at best, but many tend to live in this manner
and thus do not deem its presence a big deal.
But all of us have stopped at some point in our lives and have asked if
we could have known more or could have been closer to our families. As these thoughts continue to surge it is
easy to understand that it was the lack of separation that kept us together on
all levels of family life but when a part was taken away it a part of us that was
lost and then eventually died. It is
true that not many families reunite again in marriage after they have divorced,
probably over 95% of divorced couples and families never have direct or
continual relations from that time, so what is it that we are so quick to leave
the situation instead of trying our best to tame our hearts and work things out
in order to keep the family intact and rolling in the direction, it was designed
to do? Can you imagine the number of
drops in suicides, drug addictions, divorces, and other divisive conditions
would there be if we stopped choosing the world and its standard and once again
strive to live under the level that God has set for us at our Creation? Those numbers of unity would skyrocket and
solve many issues within our societies just within a short period of time.
However, I must contend that we have a huge problem here
and through this problem, it looks like those encouraging numbers of
reunifications or unified statistics will not be happening any time soon. This is because the one entity that was established
and designed to proclaim such reconciliation with God and His standards has
fallen into the same trap as Adam and Eve did.
The Church has so divided herself that she can no longer function as a
viable example for the world. We are now
threatening to divorce God because we feel like we know better than His Ways
and that the world is really not that bad in its stances; plus, if we keep the
world on a string maybe it will not tell our secrets about our personal lives
and we will have an opportunity sometime down the road to correct such
“mistakes” without everyone knowing about them, the perfect recipe for a divorce.
The only thing that God wants us to know is that it does not matter what
your physical walls look like and that He is not interested in your superficial
religious attitudes. All God wants is a
pure heart that will come to Him each day and to desire a relationship with
Him, and from what He is seeing from us, the superficial lies rule our hearts
not Him. Think upon something for a
moment, the world in all of its disdain promotes the step-father in almost
every case presented in the legal spotlight, do you think that this is a simple
coincidence? The world promotes its
father to our lives each second of the day and the only way that one can
spiritually accept this imitational father is to have a spiritual divorce from
our Real Father. So, why would the
Church promote such a divorce?
How can one remember their father from a distance? If the child who suffers from a divorce
cannot have a decent remembrance of their father on earth how do we believe
that we can have a fond memory or ANY memory of our eternal Father when we
separate ourselves from Him? We forget
that when that Day of Judgment arrives we shall see Jesus as He is not how we
think we see Him. Our beliefs will no
longer matter but what our hearts have done for Him after our first breath. God does not want a divorce from His prized
Creations, but a direct and refreshing relationship with us so that we can have
happy lives under His protection. God
understands what it means to be separated from His children and it is His
desire that no one else dies and leaves His presence. I can envision Adam and Eve becoming a bit
lazy in their dominion leading up to the time that they fell and were cast from
God and His sight. Why are we following
that pattern from the Church? They were
created to be the eternal example of life but failed miserably by their own
ties and accord with the temptation of the world, are we going to complete this
damnation or are we going to really change the way we live? There is no more perfect example of
separation from Who is correct than the Bible gives us in Genesis chapter 3,
and if we continue to fail to understand the dynamics of such a story our lives
are going to fall apart in ways that have no bearing that can be
mentioned. These unthinkable outcomes shall not just stick to the world and its population, for God is a just God and
He serves the just and the unjust together for He cannot change one iota;
sadly, when we become separated from our Creator we cannot see His warnings for
our spiritual eyes have been blinded by the serpent’s guile.
How can we as the single entity that is supposed to go
into all the world and exalt God through witnessing to those who are lost if we
are actively working on the process of divorcing God? With all of the divorces going on in the
world, along with all of the perverted acknowledgments of fornication that lead
to broken families, why would we seek to complete the same activities on the
spiritual level as well? If children
that come from divorced families do not know their father in the way that they
should how can we believe that we can live for Christ when we live in the same
contingency? When divorce becomes a
generational aspect of a family there can be no resolution with the father so
how can we even think that we can know or remember our Creator while living in
the same manner spiritually? Let’s go
Church, it is time to turn our hearts back to God and to return to Him as our
first love, not our 3rd or 18th. We no longer can afford to sit back and watch
the world go to hell in a handbasket and believe that we are prepared to meet
Jesus our mission is out in the world not on a pew. To be honest, if we believe that we can sit
on a pew and believe that we are saved, we have already divorced God and no
longer have ANY recollection of what His Word says and definitely, His Word does
not reside within our hearts either.
DLB
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