The references to eating for sustenance, the concept of eating/consuming as necessary for survival, even to its being a particular sign of life’s activity in a thing considered living, are most common amongst us. They are not reserved only to the believer. In truth their consideration is most pointedly and profoundly explored throughout the scriptures as a matter of truth which, to be taken in (eaten), are to be life to a thing in creation, a thing ordained to live by what it eats. A thing of all dependence, even whose dependency is made plainly known by its necessity to such engagement.
It is less a matter of God wanting us to know we exist and have being in all dependence as a created thing; but that, as a matter of truth, opens doors of truth God has purposed in grace for us to know and understand. God is not belittling of what he has created for dependence upon Him, but will and does deal with any notion of mistaking/mistaken identities.
For the believer, having both this knowledge of the uncreated life (of God) from whom all other things known as having life (creatures in creation) while in temples of clay…even the very life of God given through Jesus Christ to abide in these temples, seems to often plunge us into apparent paradoxes and contradictions. And the words seems there is not without its significance. Indeed it is our calling to come out of, or push through (solely by grace) all of what seems to what truly is that often itself seems the paradox or contradiction.
“Why?” is not a bad or evil question here if we can but approach it as supplicant in need of light rather than God’s inquisitor. Nevertheless, though presumption is never recommended, God is able to help even the presumptuous as He wills. Painful lessons…are lessons, nonetheless.
Here is repetition that for me, cannot be overstated. My own un-necessity. Regardless of whether one has read or seen any of my other foolishness, I am being persuaded that in any communication while in this, my temple of clay…I have only one shot at it, so to speak. God knows a man’s end from the beginning and presumptuous is the man who blithely assumes he will have a later to make things more clear. God knows.
But understand this if able; of all men I have not known one more presumptuous than myself. I am not writing “as a christian”, not writing as one whose words should bear or carry some heeding (and this despite all the apparent contradictions found in my many, many apparent declarations) not as one anything at all, but a man. Of that I have only enough certainty to continue. I am a creature called man. And as man man, or a man, of these I am a man most presumptuous.
I will not belabor this (though any book of my own life, which is of no consequence, would easily reveal it) but I will say it suffices to know me only as a man who has struggled to not be what he is, while in same struggle to be what he is not. And as that man has come up against a something. In trying to appear smarter, more clever, wiser…in whatever way “better” (for fear of appearing…dumb, slow, stupid…as he knew himself to be, in all unfamiliar with this experience called life) he was shown more stupid than he ever or could even imagine himself to be. He knew even far less than he thought. And in all trying to not be (what he knew himself to be) he came up again against irrefutable proofs, again, he was shown less.
So he became a fake, a fraud…a liar. Pretending he knew the dance.
A man being convinced he is just a man. Striving to be (better) or striving to not be (for escape of the worse) resulted in perfect frustration. So perfect in fact…he is convinced he was touching a consciousness, a too perfect ordering of all matters pertaining to him to just be some happenstance. Perfect resistance, as (perhaps) in anything found perfect opens a door to consider…just how perfect perfect is, or can be.
And it is no less perfect that such a man come to appreciate his own lack of necessity as to any other. He seemed at very least…necessary to himself to “be himself” but something unprepared for came with this, something often exalted among men as a paragon of behavior, even a virtuous thing, but of which he was unable to bear. Responsibility. “Be responsible” which when deconstructed is no more than “be responsible for your being”.
How does one do that?
And here, if one is tempted to think one can dissociate necessity from responsibility, one might be very, very foolish. One may have no idea when self volunteering to be “important” or of some necessity, that with it can come a revelation of unbearable responsibility, and such as only one man has been able to answer rightly. And of course this man I met while being found in fashion as a man myself…even as a man who wanted to be important among men even enough to display his necessity to and for being among them (men)…is Jesus, the Christ of God. He alone made perfect sense of, and in, this conundrum. All was of another will (against which this man [myself] had come up against) and it was perfect. A perfect will against which I had struggled, strove and found only frustration. Wanting to present a “good” I found only a produce of ill, and if wanting to avoid appearing ill, an even more desperate estate was shown.
And I would be a liar were I to not say such desire to be important held some sway even after such meeting.
Now that appears paradox, right? Even contradictory, correct? Even with all said just a few lines up of sensing that having a “one shot at things”. It would seem someone is at once saying it appears important to make a “good go” while at the same time saying all he may even think of doing in “one shot” is totally unimportant. There are “why’s” and hows of working that only God can answer, and that even such would bring us to Him alone…for answer. (See how little help I am?) How can one “know” an important thing, and not himself be swayed to believe that then makes him, in some way…important? I think one can easily see this is no less a conundrum, pickle, fix a man is in than any other.
A will, a purpose, a plan…a conscious and consciousness of doing with intent that is not of the man can be the only escape. Someone else…is the responsible one. Now that really sounds like playing with words…doesn’t it? Just shuck off all to another? Well, the alternative test/experiment is simple enough…seek to be responsible for all you are. You will inevitably come to that place (please, for the love of God if you need to, doubt me) of being so jammed up in your circumstance you will easily say, O! so easily say..”It’s their fault”. The “they” (mom, dad, “society”, circumstance and situation, the devil) bear responsibility for my being the way I am, and see myself at this point. You doubt? It’s easy enough…just keep breathing and moving through this thing called life. It’s really…all you (or any of us) have to do. The plea will be “But I am just a reactor!”
Yes. Yes you are. Me too.
There is ultimately only one Actor.
And much (if not everything) has to do with position, placement, and order. And only God…remains…God. The all responsible…One. The all important…One. The only necessity of man. That seat is His alone, and happy is the man (as he must be persuaded) to gladly let Him have it.
Sounds odd, doesn’t it…to “let God” be God? Almost heretical (yes, I have also been a heretic in addition to presumptuous) but there’s a divine rest in letting granted through the grace of the Son that slays a wicked thing devoted to wresting a throne from an untiring and omnipotent King. An all good, King.
Let God be true and every man a liar.
There are two positions described/mentioned there, take yours as it is revealed to you. It’s been provided, along with right vision in this “who’s who” of revelation that has beckoned us out from all lies. And it is good to ask, when one senses His coming, about the conditions of peace. And upon what terms can peace be had with this unconquerable King. Luke 14:31,32
We would be remiss (and are) were we to hold any of God’s creation in contempt for reviling. But there is a strict division of which we are made aware. God over all, and the all He is God over. This is no play with words nor casual use of all…or as the apostle speaks of everything, here:
For he “has put everything under his feet.” Now when it says that “everything” has been put under him, it is clear that this does not include God himself, who put everything under Christ. NIV
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For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. KJV
The reigning of Christ over all things, even those unseen, is plainly stated to not include the God who has placed all things under Him (Christ). There is an “all” of which God is exempt from inclusion.
In this way God Himself is separate from the all…even the “all” others. And surely, all other things.
What then? How then? How can there be relation, relationaility to what is so very very separate and apart…even from what would be described as the all…as a man might know?
Unless He Himself, is providing link, entrance, something of Himself offered, given, made available, made real to man amongst things…as door.
As men we exalt our own reason. Our own ability to “reason” up to a thing, a matter, even a thing we call truth.
It is the foolishness of God that He reason down to us.
And it is this, this foolishness of God, greater than man’s wisdom by which we are saved.
Go ahead, try to outsmart Him if you dare, if you believe you can, if you must. You’ll find something perfect. Even a perfect will at work that caused or causes you to know perfect frustration.
I didn’t like it either. But then a man came I couldn’t avoid. He said this:
Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. As it is written in the Scriptures, ‘They will all be taught by God. ‘ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
Ahhh, frustration! It causes me to swear, to rue my being, to shake a fist at heaven itself in demand! Touching perfection in any way has an effect upon a man. An unforeseen effect that, if he be honest (at very least with himself) can open a door. Even a door provided.
But only God will and can provide even such honesty if it is found. To face the un-faceable.
I am a hopeless wretch of a sinner. A faller short. A misser of all I aim at.
Where is only hope for such a one? Is there…even?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
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