To understand, or to even desire to understand liberty to any measure, is a wonderful work of grace. To first believe the Lord has not come to lay any burden (having none Himself) on man or a man himself, is indeed a great gift. Even the very deepest things of God we may know, no matter how far we have been granted surveying, will ever reveal any compulsion upon Him.
God has never, does never, will never or ever be placed under any form of obligation or exertion of such as to a thing over Him. This is not God shirking or resisting anything as any man might wrongly tend to see it, this is God being Himself…with nothing over Him to compel. And even in this I must beg God’s mercy and grace for the simple minded as myself…for even my use of “nothing” as being over Him can even spur to some vain imagination that there is an absence (nothing) above Him. He alone is the “what is” the “who is”, the fullness of all things in being and even in not being holding even the all of nothing together in Himself. For only He can summon things that be not as though they were.
To see God, or seek to know Him with any perimeter (at all!) may be our natural inclination as we know all and everything in creation to some limit, but God is faithful. The man holding the rock perceives himself and the rock only by limit of feel…this is where I end and rock begins, and vice versa. I therefore know the rock as not me, at the point where my “feeling” of it meets limit. Were I able to insert my feeling to extend into it, then rock becomes extension of me, even a part of a me whereby my sensing is also now in touch with all rock touches.
But to put a point to it that should not be missed, we already do this with “hand”. I know this only as my hand to a certain “me” because of a communication with it…from the “me”. But cut off my hand…is the “me” now less a me? Yes, we have some persistence of identity that to us may only seem “feeling” dependent…but is it? But perhaps I present too much for considering to some confusion. But if we have any inclination of surmising that our sensory understandings fall too far short of God’s reality for good use, we may know some success. For the God who is God is in touch with all things, yet not by limit…but by full intent and purpose in all true communication; for we are persuaded of this truth that it is He who:
Upholds all things by the word of His power.
He communicates a being to all things that are in being, and in truth their being is solely in response and owing all to His power for their being. He knows each neutrino by name. And no less all things that be not are also fully His to call as He wills…and, once calling, they too come into being.
Light…be.
Therefore it is not without some trepidation that I (or we) approach such a matter as christianity. But if there be fear there is also boldness, for it is far too late for some of us to know it as anything other than a “thing”. Even without contradicting the upholding of all things by Him, God forbid we confuse things as though Him. Or anything as though Him. He is the sustainer of things, yes, even all things, but we are not pantheists falling before every blade of grass in worship and homage.
And this matter of “things” to which God communicates their being, and indeed are (only because He does) and, no less, this matter of liberty are inseparably intertwined to us till God sets the order rightly in us. For if our identity embraced of us is not to the Maker of all things, but to things of themselves, we are no more than idolaters.
And God would free us from idolatry.
God has His people…free.
Yet only so because He is in communication of such liberty to things, even such things as ourselves, to set free things once obliged…to things.
And nothing counts but a new creature.
If you are, you hear Him.
And yes, you may…even through things, but not to confuse such things…as with God Himself.
This alone is how we may safely in salvation speak safely…even to one another.
All other speech if it be so God allows…is in vain seeking of preeminence.
And even for now, God tolerates such a thing…as vain striving among men.
For for His purpose it assists in the untangling of what would otherwise be irremediably tangled to us; this matter of things and liberty.
God owes nothing to any…thing.
Yet, He freely loves.
If we would know this, we too must come out from obligation to things to find our debt of love as things satisfied to God by another, even His Christ…that we may truly love Him who first loved us…even in the making of us as things in Himself.
If one rebels at such matter, finds odious a referencing to themselves as a thing, it would be wise to see how very much more exalted they see themselves than a brother they may claim to believe in his testimony. Some still to this day…even calling themselves “christian” believe Paul spoke in hyperbole or exaggeration, and by such only manifestly show they do not truly believe him, nor receive his testimony. But, God is faithful.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
See how far one may grasp at in seeking to not be a “not anything”?
And what a fall may attend?
Adam did…when hearkening to the voice of a thing.
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