He Is God And We Are Not - Are You Living Like You Believe It?

My Utmost For His Highest

“Just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned…” —Romans 5:12

“The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one man’s sin, but that the nature of sin, namely, my claim to my right to myself, entered into the human race through one man. But it also says that another Man took upon Himself the sin of the human race and put it away— an infinitely more profound revelation (see Hebrews 9:26). The nature of sin is not immorality and wrongdoing, but the nature of self-realization which leads us to say, “I am my own god.” This nature may exhibit itself in proper morality or in improper immorality, but it always has a common basis— my claim to my right to myself. When our Lord faced either people with all the forces of evil in them, or people who were clean-living, moral, and upright, He paid no attention to the moral degradation of one, nor any attention to the moral attainment of the other. He looked at something we do not see, namely, the nature of man (see John 2:25).”  CHAMBERS

If you have been reading my ramblings for any time, you know that I often refer to the “fall” and the “garden”.  The decision by man to choose himself over God and the place where it happened.  The Bible is replete with verses that encourage us to choose God and not ourselves.  Trust in the Lord, seek first the kingdom, love God with all, offer yourself as a living sacrifice, there are so many verses with the same message.  They all boil down to this one thing … return to the place for which we were created.  To the relationship that God had intended from the foundations of what is.  But we could not on our own.  So He sent His Son to do it for us.  But still, to appropriate that for ourselves, we were once again faced with a choice.  So many have again chosen to go their own way.  To reject the One Way that would make things that had gone so wrong, right again.  (Matthew 7:13-14) “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”  There are so many who have rejected the only solution.  God will not make them choose otherwise, only make the way.  It is a heartbreaking reality.  Especially piercing when it is the choice of someone we care about.  As much as we care about them, God loves them even more.  Yet He stays His hand and allows them to choose something other than Himself.  An eternal mystery that one day will be revealed to those who call Jesus Lord.  And, since you have chosen Jesus … every day, live in that reality as a living testimony to the World that He is God and we are not  …… ELGIN

Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)