Monthly Archives: July 2011

I am under full conviction of this matter.

We as “christians” should start over in our understanding of the bible. I believe that we should clear our mind and spirit of what we have been told throughout our years in the church or out of church and start over.

We have been led down a road that is wide as the sea! First, I believe most  christians just say whatever they have been told in their days of “church” without even understanding the concept or even researching the philosophy of the bible. We have just went  on and on in our lives  just restating the same ole thing over and over without knowing what a passage really means. It has been that someone in authority said it, so it must be true! (Just to remind you, You owe me some money!) Ha. That is really how it goes.  We have gone somewhere to learn something and we assume that what someone has told us is the way it is,period.

We don’t test what someone said by asking God, looking in His word, or praying about it. Because by monday we have forgotten all about it!! Why don’t we really concern ourselves with such important stuff, rather than worry about what we are we going to do next weekend for fun?

I believe we have to change our paradigm to a everyday of rest in Him. PERIOD! Today is a day of rest in Christ! Tomorrow is a day of rest in Christ! The day after tomorrow  is a day of rest in Christ.

Now, the ultimate question that I had to ask my self, and I know you want to know too is ” What does resting in Christ look like?”.

This is really what I think is the “64,000 question”( old timers know what this refers to).

The problem with the answer to this question is that it is as far from the east as the west is! because of where we are today, it makes the answer so far extreme that it seems impossible to be true.

Let’s take a clue from God’s first book of the bible, Genesis 1-2, God created a world and a home for him(God’s intention was that He would live there too,but Adam and Eve did not choose Him). He created the Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve, to be model of closeness, of community, of rest, of fellowship, of love for each other. Remember it took only 6 days(our measurement of time) of work to present to us this example of fellowship with His people,only two at this time but a perfect example of God’s model( this I believe, is the example in the bible of multiplying that should be natural). Everything was done, all of adam’s needs were met, food,beauty of God’s creation,animals for his caretaking, and a mate,eve.

It’s like someone telling you that you should come over to their house,sit down and eat,everything is on the table ready to share with you, there will be no need for you to do anything, just pick up your fork and dig in!!

This is where we have totally messed up, We have come over to your house and changed the whole menu and served different things that you would have not fixed, and then told you to sit down and eat what you  have fixed!!  Now, is that just wrong or what?!

God has given us exactly what we need, but we have butted in and changed it. My belief that we  have to let go of ourselves(die to ourselves) and Let God be our God!!

My understanding of this may be to the extreme, but  what if this was what God intended.

Let God be What He is.(I used the word be instead of do because He has already done what He wanted in the garden of eden.) We just have to live in it!!

Have we mis-interpreted God’s intention of our week?

I believe that we have.

We have taken the picture of the beginning of time when God created the world and used this as our example of our life. We have used God’s example of Him “working for 6 days” and then resting on that 7th day as our template of life.

When in fact, God was showing us that all the “work” is done and that all we are to do is rest in Him, the one that has created everything for us to share with Him.

What if this is what God was really showing us? What would this really look like? It would hard to fathom in our human mind, but I believe that this is where we may have originally took the wrong turn of  God’s purpose in Life.

It is God’s life that we are to be apart of,His life,His word,His world,His ways are to be what we are to mingled with us.

Our interpretation of the week as God describes to us, is like, Okay God, you rest we will take it from here?! We have made God’s rest a period of time that God’s work is good but it is not finished. Boy, do we have an ego!

I pray that we can rest in Him Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,and Saturday. Now, I am assuming you are resting in God on Sunday to begin with.

Now if you take this paradigm as resting in Him after God created the World for us, and now the “work” is done,we must rest or enjoy the creator and the creation.

Oh My, That would be quite a picture if we could only grasp it in our spirit.

I pray that you will this week in your time with God,rest in Him on a thursday!

Most you know by now that I venture into the chicken business. Yes, I guess I am just crazy like my wife thinks, or I just wanted to be a little rancher when I was a kid. I am in it for the eggs, by the way do you need any! I got a few!!

It’s amazing what God lesson’s you can learn by just letting them come to you by Him.

As a beginner in the chicken business, I was playing around when to actually feed the things, and how much at a time? I filled their feeder to the brim so they would make sure that they would’nt starve to death if I was gone. but then when it was empty again, it was a odd time of the day to be feeding them again.

So my plan was to just fill it up to where I thought they would just have enough for the day.

You guessed it, Now I have to get up when the chickens get up! they begin their, Hey we are hungry and thirsty routine calls and although they are really not that loud, I can always here their calls.(seems like I did this when I had kids too)

Now, I just wonder if the Lord has to go thru the same thing with us in trying to set up the just right routine for us to fed by Him?

You see, He wants us to have those same kind of hours that the chickens want. He wants us to be calling on him early in the morning when our day starts and tell him that we need to be fed by Him and with just the right amount of food to sustain us thru the day.

You see we need to want Him when we wake up, it is after all a new day in His kingdom. He is the king.  He deserves to be thought of and to be acknowledged that this day is because of Him.

We also need to understand that His portion of Him for that day is enough. It is not to much or to little.  What if He gave us to much one day and we did not start hollering at him until the middle of the day, because we had left over from the day before? What a odd time to start asking for food to sustain us again for the day. What would happen  if He only gave us enough of Himself to last just a half a day? As the Master of us, It would not be a very good example of a good servant to His flock.

God’s daily eating of Him is just enough to want to have the same amount of Him, everyday, same as the last.

Our calling on Him, just like my chickens cackling at me at 6:00 in the morning, is exactly what God wants to hear from us. He wants us to call on Him every morning to be fed by Him.

I too, want to call on Him to sustain me for the Lord’s sake.

and now the rest of the story.

When God was creating the world for His Glory, Let us concentrate on the phrase “for His Glory”. For His Glory is a statement that tells me that His actions, His words are to represent Him. It is an extension of Him or maybe, just maybe it could be the “fruitfulness and the multiplying of God?!” Wow!!

God’s intention of His Glory was to be a natural flowing of Him through His creations. The earth, the heavens, the fish,the birds, the animals and most importantly through man.

We have struggled with this natural process of God, almost two thousand years we have tried thru the “knowledge of good and evil” that we ourselves could multiply and be fruitful. We have not understood Jesus’s portrayal of Him being a vine and us being an extension of that vine as a branch. We are not to create another branch, but just an extension of us is all Jesus is want’s us to naturally be. If we accept the indwelling of Christ in the living water flowing thru our veins in a physical way and also of the vine way, that it will continue the vine through us not that the branches on reproduced, but the vine is being reproduced.

This transformation is re-introduced in the coming of Lord in a tiny baby, and being our savior with His dieing on the cross and resurrected Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Way that We can be of God and God can be of us again, just like the Garden of Eden was.

Our attempt of trying to reproduce ourselves through our own strength has failed. God’s natural way of Christ  living in us will and has reproduced Him, otherwise how would we still have the chance to do it now?!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. This line is used in a very familiar song. But it is so true!

I not only see but hear God’s glory in the bible everytime that I read the bible now! Here is just a side note to the blog today, SLOW DOWN, NOT JUST IN LIFE, BUT READING GOD’S WORD. Take time to really understand His intent of the words of the bible!

In Genesis,chapter one in description of the creation of the earth, do you notice that He actually was talking to us before we were created, and also he talked to the animals that He created. Check out verse 11 when He says “let the earth sprout vegetation,plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed,each according to its kind,on the earth.” In verse 22 God says”Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth” and now check out verse 28 when He says to man “Be fruitful and multilply and fill the earth and subdue it and have have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Whoa! as Fonzi used to say!

Now let us remember something that is very important at this stage of the story. This is before Mankind’s fall!! We were not of sin or we needed not to be saved from it. We were in the Garden of Eden and God’s plan was in force with God and Us in full unity. We were in Paradise, formed by God. No worry’s, no cares, no problems! This was His Purpose for Us.

Here is now the moral of the story of the pre-fall. We are to be in God and God in Us and to fruitful and reproduce ourselves not only in a physcial way but a natural way of what we are(Us in God in God in Us),will naturally be reproduced as we are living.

In these three verses it was given that it would be so, to be a natural thing to be fruitful  and multiply. Now let us fast-forward to after the fall.

We have now been trying to  un-naturally try and be fruitful and multiply through our own strength. All through the old testament we see this process of us trying to be fruitful by our righteousness. But to no avail we continually fail including some great leaders of the old testament.

This is where our story  pauses and set’s us up for the “rest of the story”!

God show’s us and tells us what HE HAS DONE TO START FROM THE BEGINNING!

PRAISE THE LORD, THAT HE DOES!