CREATION - By and For GodAfter I was Christian for a while I was aware that what I had was not enough.
A few of years ago the lord had me looking into the Bible account of the Creation - Genesis Chapters 1 and 2, and John Chapter 1.
I lived in these three chapters for a whole year; I couldn't have a quiet time without turning there and pondering in my heart!.
The Creation And Its Purpose - Indescribable!
(Job 26:7) He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
Jesus, the Word of God, gave me some answers. I am convinced that God, the Trinity of Father, Son and Spirit, created the universe from love. The whole thing was, and is, from love and for love.
(1 John 4:8) He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
Before "the beginning" there was just God, our God, nothing else.
Not:
• Not Buddha, complacent, and his god, unknowable and unreachable
• Not the Muslim god, all alone, bitter, misogynistic, angry, vengeful
• Not millions of Hindu or Roman gods fighting and back-stabbing for power.
Our God. Father, Son and Spirit. In love. Eternally pouring out for one-another. Giving.
Perichoresis "A fellowship and sharing so honest and open and real that persons involved dwell in one another without fear or coercion. It is union without loss of individual identity. When one weeps, the others taste salt".
Homoousios (homo: same, ousios: being), describes the complete mutual indwelling in each Person of the Trinity. While each Person remains in Himself as Father, Son and Spirit, they are, nevertheless, wholly in the others and they are wholly in themselves (in ontological relationship)" (John 14:10) I am in the Father, and the Father in me.
ontological - the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being. (http://www.trinityinyou.com/index 27Aug2010)
Elohim decided to make room for more. Whatever they brought into their presence would have to be very special:
• The Father so loved the Son; it would be good to bring the Son a glorious bride, one who would be his delight forever . . (John 3:29, Revelation 22:17)
• The Son so loved the Father; it would be good to give the Father many sons (many children in the inheritance), and bring them to glory . . (Hebrews 2:10)
• Elohim would create creatures in their image. But not just spiritual. Physical.
Each would be hand made. Their spirit would flow from God's breath!
(Genesis 1) "let there be . . let there be . . let there be . . . . let us make man . . and call them 'man' and 'woman'" . . "and it was very good".
The Creation centres on family . . "Jehovah" or "Adonai" or "Lord" God is called Father.
The Son is called Son.
They were family and are family . . we are "in their image and likeness" . . this is why family seems natural to every people group in the world and has always done so!
WHY FATHER?
A Deep Yearning For Relationship:
• Fiona Stanley: all children need parenting and education to have a future in the world; [Australian] indigenous children will continue to live chaotic lives until this happens: uneducated, under achieving, sick, short lived (2009).
• Readers Digest: "The quality of a person's relationships is the most important factor in the level of happiness for that person" (July 2008).
• Maggie Dent: "Human connectedness is what keeps us alive. Nothing Else . . Relationships. So you build pastoral care among our young people. Give them your relationship if there are no others. Make sure they eat properly, get good sleep, laugh. Exhausted, unloved, hungry kids are liable to make crazy, costly decisions". (Community worker and suburban mum. Author: "Live Fast, Die Young") (Talking Heads ABC-TV 14 July 2010).
• James Baldwin: "Children are not good at listening to their parents, but always grow up being just like them". James Baldwin was an illegitimate black American 20th Century writer. "Go Tell it on the Mountain". "Nobody Knows My Name".
• John Armstrong - philosopher, writer, thinker - writes books on civilisation, art, love and beauty, but appears not to discuss God at all. He loves to go outside late at night and look at the stars; there he can ponder such things as: why are we here? And, what does it all mean? He appears to base his ideas on "nice" or on nothing, yet is a popular speaker (guru (?)). (Melbourne University Business School)(Interview ABC/FM 26 August 2010).
Suggestions. No answers.
A Place For God The Father
The Spirit of God is seeking to reveal a deep but simple truth: "The undivided consciousness of Fatherhood is the single sufficient source of authority the church needs to initiate and sustain revival". This revelation is a shared state of awareness that can only be realised in the community of the church (A Place for God, John Yates, 2010).
We all deeply desire to belong as a child. The Bible calls this "sonship". Jesus treasured his Sonship; He was always aware that He was the Father's Son. Precious beyond everything. A Yearning For Father:
• Sigmund Freud: "I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for fatherhood".
• Lucille Ball of the "I Love Lucy" TV show when discussing the decline of Western society: "Where are the fathers?"
• Catalyst: Dr Jonica Newby: "New science suggests that fathers, as well as mothers, experience changes throughout pregnancy and childbirth. Fathers appear to be subtly primed, by their hormones, for fatherhood, even before the child is born" (ABC-TV Thursday 1 July 2010).
• Fatherhood is generally regarded as being precious . . Human history shows fathers have a special place in families in almost every culture, particularly those that are faith based.
• When told that IVF babies have no need of a father, something inside us says "not true".
• Kids naturally trust and admire their father, the hero without fault.
• "Who am I the son of?" this is my identity. Often single and de facto mothers give their children their father's family name. This is not a rational act.
• Today many Western children, particularly teens and young adults, are profoundly confused because they do not know who their father is.
• Many young men have no grasp of what it is to be a man.
• In an ancient Sumatran village missionaries found an old story that a god of the whole Universe would one day send his son to save the village people from their guilt and sin. A story like this has been part of the consciousness of many peoples around the world for hundreds of years. Http://christiankonnections.com/html/primitive_religion.html (31/10/2010).
• Any man can be a father, but not every man can be a dad.
IF
If I am truly a beloved intimate child of God most high, how do I respond? What do I do? Not nothing - but everything.
Because I am loved, I love, and am inclined toward the object of my love. Devoted. Caring. Seeking to please.
Not "I must", or "I should". I cannot help myself. (Sin cannot stay - it melts away, fruit grows).
How about you ? Can you identify with this ?
• Beloved - I Am Beloved - You Are Beloved - He Is Our Beloved
• As with an earthly beloved. Spend time together. Snuggle up. Hang out. Talk. Listen.
• We do not have to have huge, intense, prayerful, worshipful, dress-up events.
• If Jesus' Daddy is my Daddy then Jesus and I are brothers.
• Sure, he is my Saviour. Certainly he is my Lord. Absolutely he rules and reigns over all the universe, and over me.
• But so do I. And He has given me His righteousness. And His promises.
* I am with Him, at the right hand of our Father.
This is the New Covenant!
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God (Colossians 3:1).
WOMAN AT THE WELL
(John 4:5-26) (Three minutes to read aloud)
So he came to a city of Samaria . . Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" . .
This woman has been so devastated by life. Possibly she is barren. Being barren is the worst thing that could happen to a woman in that Bible-times culture.
A lovely person? Beautiful? Five men married her, so she must have been very, very special.
But she was always rejected . .
Every man she was ever close with has abandoned her, she did not even go home to be with her parents after her fifth divorce, but endured the disgrace of living unmarried with a man.
Jesus came to her, He spent time with her. Jesus became a father to her.
Father and Mother
Isaiah prophesied of the coming Messiah . . His name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah (9:6).
Jesus is also fully Mother: "How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings” (Matthew 23:37).
Jesus awakened the woman's spirit to know the truth. He did not approach her as a Rabbi (which He was well qualified to do), or as a thirty-something man (she did not need another man telling her how to live).
No, He was Father to her, the one thing she needed above all else..
Truth (Because We Can Trust Our Father - The Bible Author)
As for you, the anointing which you received from Him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in Him (1 John 2:27).
Amen.
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